Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold
SKU:
$100.00
$100.00
per item
The Glitter and the Gold.Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt. The Glitter and the Gold. First Edition. 1952. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—book shows a trace of foxing, and jacket shows rubbing, light discoloration, foxing, and minor fraying. The jacket is price-clipped.
How fitting Consuelo Balsan worked “gold” into the title of her memoir. More than any other woman, she was a symbol of the Gilded Age and its byproduct, the dollar princesses whose dowries purchased titles and prestige for wealthy American families. In one respect, however, Consuelo was atypical. Her beauty was as legendary as her fortune. In this book, she recalls her turbulent marriage to the Duke of Marlborough and her relationship with her domineering mother who played matchmaker for her daughter’s gilded union.
“Looking back to 1895 when I married the 9th Duke of Marlborough and went to live in England I recall a society whose conventions were closer to the eighteenth than the twentieth century.”
--Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
How fitting Consuelo Balsan worked “gold” into the title of her memoir. More than any other woman, she was a symbol of the Gilded Age and its byproduct, the dollar princesses whose dowries purchased titles and prestige for wealthy American families. In one respect, however, Consuelo was atypical. Her beauty was as legendary as her fortune. In this book, she recalls her turbulent marriage to the Duke of Marlborough and her relationship with her domineering mother who played matchmaker for her daughter’s gilded union.
“Looking back to 1895 when I married the 9th Duke of Marlborough and went to live in England I recall a society whose conventions were closer to the eighteenth than the twentieth century.”
--Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
Sold Out
