03202nam 2200781 a 450 991096603720332120240513232906.097866135282549781280124396128012439397802530056010253005604(CKB)3170000000046062(EBL)670315(OCoLC)775866852(SSID)ssj0000550910(PQKBManifestationID)11355087(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000550910(PQKBWorkID)10524403(PQKB)10190259(MiAaPQ)EBC670315(OCoLC)769266000(MdBmJHUP)muse18540(Au-PeEL)EBL670315(CaPaEBR)ebr10519699(CaONFJC)MIL352825(Perlego)2429538(EXLCZ)99317000000004606220110610d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAlva Vanderbilt Belmont unlikely champion of women's rights /Sylvia D. Hoffert1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Pressc20121 online resource (291 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780253356611 025335661X Includes bibliographical references and index.An Impossible Child -- Every Inch a General -- A Sex Battle -- Immortalizing the Lady in Affecting Prose -- Belmont's Orphan Child -- The Last Word -- Postscript: My Turn -- Appendix: Belmont's Financial Contributions to Woman's Rights.A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth, her administrative expertise, and her social celebrity to help convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and then to persuade the exhausted leaders of the National Woman's Party to initiate a world wide equal rights campaign. Sylvia D. Hoffert argues that Belmont was a feminist visionary and FeministsUnited StatesBiographySuffragistsUnited StatesBiographyWomen political activistsUnited StatesBiographyWomenSuffrageUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen's rightsUnited StatesHistory20th centurySocialitesNew York (State)New YorkBiographyRich peopleNew York (State)New YorkBiographyFeministsSuffragistsWomen political activistsWomenSuffrageHistoryWomen's rightsHistorySocialitesRich people305.42092BHoffert Sylvia D1812841MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966037203321Alva Vanderbilt Belmont4365456UNINA