Consuelo & Alva Vanderbilt: The Dollar Princess and Her Mother by Julie Ferry
byAs mother and daughter relationships go, Alva and Consuelo Vanderbilt’s was perhaps one of the worst during the Gilded Age. Alva, a Southern belle…
aristocrats
The Peerage at Work
byIn the 1880s, falling rents, an agricultural depression, and taxation all conspired against the lavish lifestyles of England’s aristocracy, and ten years later, articles…
Promenades Through London: Mayfair
byThe parishes of Christ Church and St George, Hanover Square, included the greatest and most characteristic part of Mayfair. Not all who lived in…