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31 de may. de 2024 · Mrs. Astor, the queen bee, ruled New York society. In fact, she was so well known that her calling cards only had three words: The Mrs. Astor. Alva Vanderbilt was a force in her own right....
Famous for being referred to later in life as "the Mrs. Astor" or simply "Mrs. Astor", she was the wife of yachtsman William Backhouse Astor Jr. They had five children, including Colonel John Jacob Astor IV, who perished on the RMS Titanic.
22 de mar. de 2022 · The actual Mrs. Astor and her daughter, Carrie, as well as Alva Vanderbilt ( who bears a striking similarity to Carrie Coon’s Mrs. Russell.) Except in real life, it was even grander, more...
Alva Erskine Belmont (née Smith; January 17, 1853 – January 26, 1933), known as Alva Vanderbilt from 1875 to 1896, was an American multi-millionaire socialite and women's suffrage activist. She was noted for her energy, intelligence, strong opinions, and willingness to challenge convention.
6 de ago. de 2013 · Thanks to the meteoric increase in millionaires in New York due to the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution, many of whose fortunes rivaled or even surpassed the oldest of families, Mrs. Astor and Ward McAllister had a whole new challenge in deciding who of the nouveau riche was acceptable.
21 de feb. de 2022 · In fashionable East Coast society in the years before the turn of the century, there was just one woman who determined who was in – and out. From calculated calling cards to opulent Fifth Avenue parties, find out more about how the Mrs Astor ruled Gilded Age New York…
7 de dic. de 2020 · Whether true or not, Mrs. Astor had called on Mrs. Vanderbilt before the ball, and did attend, with her daughter, the ball that the New York Herald described the following morning as “probably never rivaled in republican America and never outdone by the gayest court of Europe.”
