Women's History

Alva Vanderbilt, Woman's Rights Coaster

Made in Rhode Island100% Botticino Tumbled MarbleNo Resins or PolymercompositesEach tile is hand-selected for superior quality, beauty, and color. Carved from large blocks, making every cut unique. Measures: 4" x 4" Item# 4688

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt is the Story of a daughter and a mother from the Gilded Age. This fascinating, highly anticipated life story of Alva Vanderbilt and her daughter Consuelo, skillfully told by author Amanda Mackenzie Stuart, is a must-read!...

Votes for Women T-Shirt

The "Votes for Women" motto was used in 1909 at the famous suffrage rally at Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island. This soft blue T-shirt is based on the vintage pin from the early women’s suffrage movement, encouraging women to claim their right...

Votes for Women Cap - Blue

Votes for Women Cap - Blue Celebrate a pivotal moment in history with the Newport Mansions' Votes for Women Cap in vibrant blue. This stylish cap features an iconic "Votes for Women" slogan, paying homage to the suffragette movement and its fight for...

Votes for Women Umbrella

The Votes for Women Umbrella features five bold suffragists in gilded sashes and proudly displays the names of 12 inspiring leaders of the American movement: Susan B. Anthony, Alva Belmont, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Carrie Chapman Catt, Lucretia Mott,...

To Marry an English Lord

From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details--plus photographs, illustrations, quotes,...

Legendary Ladies

Goddesses Mythology Inspiration Readers who have enjoyed Warrior Goddess Training or Women Who Run with the Wolves will love Ann Shen's Legendary LadiesGoddesses from mythology: Goddess mythology from our past are celebrated...

Gilded Dreams

From the author of Gilded Summers, comes a powerful novel of the last eight years of the American Women’s fight for suffrage.  Gilded Dreams is a historical, action packed love letter to the women who fought so hard for all women who stand on the...

The Decoration Of Houses: New Edition

In addition to her fame as a novelist, Edith Wharton has now been recognized as an arbiter of taste and correct usage in the making of domestic interior rooms, and Odgen Codman, Jr., has achieved recognition as a revivalist architect of the first rank...

The Custom of the Country: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Wharton’s sly and delicious novel about the ambitious social ascent of Undine Spragg, now in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with a foreword by Sofia CoppolaA Penguin Classics Deluxe EditionConsidered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith...

Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th century—by award-winning historian Charlotte Gray.Born into upper-class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano (later to become the mother of...

The Women of Rothschild

In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power.From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from...

The American Adventuress: A Novel

"No one writes bright, bold, bad, and beautiful women of history like C.W. Gortner, and he outdoes himself with his latest heroine: Jennie Jerome, American heiress, royal mistress, and mother of Winston Churchill. The American...

A Right Worthy Woman: A Novel

In the vein of The Personal Librarian and The House of Eve, a “remarkable and stirring novel” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author) based on the inspiring true story of Virginia’s Black Wall...

The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever

“Valiant and timely ... ‘The Cure for Women’ reintroduces its subject as a hero for this moment.” ―The New York TimesHow Victorian male doctors used false science to argue that women were unfit for anything but motherhood―and the...

Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner—creator of one of America’s most stunning museums—an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella’s world,...

All the Pretty Places: A Novel of the Gilded Age

“A timeless and powerful novel of a daring woman who must decide if she will risk everything to follow her passion and find her voice.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author From the moment she was born, the...

The Personal Librarian

Over one million copies sold!The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick!Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post!“Historical fiction at its...

American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

Before there was Meghan Markle, there was Consuelo Vanderbilt, the original American Duchess.  Perfect for readers of Jennifer Robson and lovers of Downton Abbey. Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the...