Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls (Stories of the Rich & Famous, Famous Women) (Celebrating Women)
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A Glimpse Behind the Façade of Rich and Famous Women
“…wild, witty, gossipy, and glamourous. A sheer delight.” ―Becca Anderson, author of Badass Women Give the Best Advice
#1 Best Seller in Women’s Studies and Biographies of the Rich & Famous and Royalty
An intimate portrait of women of privilege. As Becca Anderson recommends, read about “heiress Barbara Hutton’s outrageous lifestyle, Jackie O as a step-mom, Patty Hearst’s many adventures, Peggy Guggenheim’s collection of art (and men), and Almira Carnarvon, the real-life counterpart to Lady Cora of Downton Abbey.”
The grass isn’t greener on the other side. Heiresses have always been viewed with eyes of envy. They were the ones for whom the cornucopia had been upended, showering them with unimaginable wealth and opportunity. 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.
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. They are the nonfictional Richard Corys―those not slated for happily ever after.
Women of Means is a non-fiction best seller, full of the best biographies of all time. Some of the women whose silver spoons rusted include:
- Liliane Bettencourt, whose chemist father created L’Oreal… and was a Nazi collaborator
- Nica Rothschild, who traded her gilded life to become the Baroness of Bebop
- Jocelyn Wildenstein, who became a cosmetology-enhanced cat-woman
- Ruth Madoff, the dethroned queen of Manhattan
- Patty Hearst, who trod the path from heiress… to terrorist
Fans of Women of Means will want to try other Marlene Wagman-Geller books including Fabulous Female Firsts, Great Second Acts, Still I Rise, Unabashed Women, and Women Who Launch.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Mango (3 Oct. 2019) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 298 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1642500178 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1642500172 |
| Dimensions | 13.97 x 1.91 x 21.59 cm |
by Amazon Customer
Half way through this book and it just proves that having money is not always the way to happiness. Their upbringing and wealth seems to be a hindrance to their lives. Am enjoying the read as what you see is not always what is happening in real life.
by Loveday Sweet
This is a disgrace! I cannot believe I paid £11.99 for such a terrible book, if that’s what you can call it.
Firstly there is no information in this book that you can’t get off the internet, and secondly, there are appalling mistakes in here, for instance a wife who died in 1960, apparently retired to a house to mourn the death of her husband who died in 1979 – 19 years after her!
There are two rival heiresses who apparently supplied the man they both married with the same presents, ponies, castles and vineyards, some copy and pasting went a bit wrong there…and so it goes on, the mistakes just keep on coming.
This is not a researched, well written or even proof read book, it’s just someone copy and pasting from the internet, and not even doing that properly, slapping the info onto a few pages, and trying to pass it off as a book and charging for it! Despicable.
Do not buy, it’s a load of tat, a total waste of paper!
by Amazon Customer
Edwina Mountbatten’s husband was killed in 1979 along with his grandson. The next paragraph tells the reader that his wife Edwina died in 1960 and spend the last few years of her life mourning the death of her husband and grandson – how is this physically possible as she died 19 years before her husband? Just one of several sloppy, incorrect facts in this book.
by Amazon Customer
I really enjoyed this book.
by Grace
Worth a read, my 90 year old mother really enjoyed it.
by D L HILLMAN
This book is very interesting, it shows what some women and (also men) will go for money and also use violence aswell. Ìf that’s the case I’d rather b without pots of money and b happy with a little.
by Amazon Customer
I was surprised that it was a collection of very short biographies of many heiresses. I had expected something a bit more in depth and substantial of just a few. Also the author writes in strings of idioms, euphemisms and expressions half of which seemed sarcastic or that you have to know. There were some interesting positive and creative bits about some of these women’s lives even in their agonies but mostly it felt like gossip or an intrusion and in the end I had to put it down. I felt disappointed.
by Julieferguson
Love all books on guided age
Life in detail of heiresses and how they fit in regal households