Books

The Newport Mansions Book-Hardcover

Our best-selling book, Newport Mansions, has been completely revised, with updated text and new photographs. Filled with breathtaking photography and fascinating facts about the mansions, this book will make a wonderful addition to your library or coffee...

The Newport Mansions Book-Softcover

Our best-selling book, Newport Mansions, has been completely revised, with updated text and new photographs. Filled with breathtaking photography and fascinating facts about the mansions, this book will make a wonderful addition to your library or coffee...

Lost Newport: Third Edition

Featuring more than 190 vintage views of cottages built from the early nineteeth century to the early twentieth century, Lost Newport recreates 59 summer houses, now lost, in an evocative guide that gives depth to any Newport experience. softcover 199...

Gilded Age Cocktails

Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America's Golden Age A delightful romp through America’s Golden Age of CocktailsThe decades following the American Civil War burst with invention―they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor...

A Well Behaved Woman - Softcover

The riveting novel of iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded-Age New York, written by Therese Anne Fowler, a New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald.

The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess - in Her Own Words. By Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan

A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir-the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton Abbey. Consuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautiful, and heir to a vast fortune. She was also in love with an American suitor when her mother chose instead...

The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy

By Anne de Courcy A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – The real women who inspired Downton Abbey. Towards the end of...

Fortune's Children, the Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

The name Vanderbilt is a name that signifies wealth. The family patriarch is "The Commodore", who built up a fortune that allowed him to become the world's richest man by 1877. Less than fifty years after his death, one of the direct descendants dies...

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt

“A dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first-rate biography.... completely absorbing.”—Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire The granddaughter of the...

Gilded Summers

Pearl and Ginevra grow up in the era known as the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island. One lives above the stairs, the other below. Surrounded by Astors and Vanderbilts, Pearl fills her days with teatime and shallow friendships, yearning for something...

The Gilded Age by Mark Twain

Arguably the first major American novel to satirize the political milieu of Washington, D.C. and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name...

What Would Mrs. Astor Do?

What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age A richly illustrated romp with America’s Gilded Age leisure class—and those angling to join it.Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and...

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,...

King Lehr

King Lehr and the Gilded Age by Lady Decies. The shocking, Gilded Age tell-all that tarnished high society. Item# 3592