Antoinette Chanel will capture your heart' ANN WEISGARBER, author of THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF RACHEL DUPREE - The unforgettable story of the sisters who changed fashion forever. I can't recommend it enough' GILL THOMPSON, author of THE CHILD ON PLATFORM ONE 'Historical fiction at its finest. This is a book to be relished and savoured. and was a Nazi collaboratorPeggy Guggenheim, who had an insatiable appetite for modern art and menNica Rothschild, who traded her gilded life to become the Baroness of BebopJocelyn Wildenstein, who became a cosmetology-enhanced cat-womanRuth Madoff, the dethroned queen of ManhattanPatty Hearst, who trod the path from heiress.
Some of the women whose silver spoons rusted include:Almina Carnarvon, the real-life counterpart to Lady Cora of Downton AbbeyLiliane Bettencourt, whose chemist father created L'Oreal. Women of Means is bound to be a non-fiction bestseller, full of the best biographies of all time. They are the nonfictional Richard Corys―those not slated for happily ever after. Happily Never After: From the author of Behind Every Great Man, we now have Women of Means, vignettes of the women who were slated from birth―or marriage―to great privilege, only to endure lives which were the stuff Russian tragic heroines are made of. However, through intimate historical biographies, Women of Means shows us that oftentimes the weaving sisters saved their most heart-wrenching tapestries for the destinies of wealthy women. They were the ones for whom the cornucopia had been upended, showering them with unimaginable wealth and opportunity. The Grass Isn't Greener on the Other Side: Heiresses have always been viewed with eyes of envy. Glimpse behind the façade of rich and famous women
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