A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York

A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York

Journey through the splendor and the excesses of the Gilded Age

"Every aspect of life in the Gilded Age took on deeper, transcendent meaning intended to prove the greatness of America: residences beaut…

If you like book A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

A Well-Behaved Woman

A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York,

In 1883, the New York Times prints a lengthy rave of Alva Vanderbilt's Fifth Ave. costume ball--a coup for the former Alva Smith, who not long befo…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Social Graces

The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in history: Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Astor's notorious battle for control of New York society during the Gi…
Buy this book on Amazon
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

This newest book by Pulitzer Prize winner Justin Kaplan is a sparkling combination of biography, social history, architectural appreciation, and pure pleasure

Endowed with the largest private fortune…
Buy this book on Amazon
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansio…
Buy this book on Amazon
New York

Edward Rutherfurd celebrates America’s greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga, weaving together tales of families rich and poor, native-born and immigrant—a cast of fictional and true characters who…
Buy this book on Amazon
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.

The story…
Buy this book on Amazon
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History

Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives, she has inspired books, documentaries and films, and is the subject of intense debate even today, al…
Buy this book on Amazon
What the Lady Wants: A Novel of Marshall Field and the Gilded Age

In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous “Give the lady what she wants.” His legendary charm also won the hear…
Buy this book on Amazon
American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

Before Meghan and Harry, another American ‘princess’ captured the hand of an English aristocrat. Now, Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke o…
Buy this book on Amazon
A Beautiful Rival: A Novel of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden

In this stunning new novel, bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not only decades, …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe

Buy this book on Amazon
Montauk

Buy this book on Amazon
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

Who taught Catherine of Aragon English, helped Anne Boleyn get dressed in the morning, discussed sex with Anne of Cleves, or pushed religious revolution with Kathryn Parr?

Every queen had ladies-in-wai…
Buy this book on Amazon
Our Kind of People

Buy this book on Amazon
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl

It’s 1938, and a young woman selling face cream out of a New York City beauty parlor is determined to prove she can have it all. Her name is Estée Lauder, and she’s about to take the world by storm, i…
Buy this book on Amazon
Lies and Other Acts of Love

Buy this book on Amazon
The Age of Innocence

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreade…
Buy this book on Amazon
All Is Bright

Buy this book on Amazon
An American Beauty

This sweeping novel of historical fiction is inspired by the true rags-to-riches story of Arabella Huntington—a woman whose great beauty was surpassed only by her exceptional business acumen, grit, an…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

Buy this book on Amazon