02837cam a2200385 i 4500 608061160 TxGeo 20221024120000.0 221018t20222021||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250280190 hbk. 1250280192 hbk. (OCoLC)1263342141 TxGeo rda Livingstone, Natalie, author. The women of Rothschild : the untold story of the world's most famous dynasty / Natalie Livingstone. First U.S. edition. ©2021. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2022. viii, 461 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in Great Britain by John Murray (Publishers), an Hachette UK company"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index. "From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish castles, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the Vatican to Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first. As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Excluded from the family bank, they forged their own distinct dynasty of daughters and nieces, mothers and aunts. They became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising prime ministers, advocating for social reform, and trading on the stock exchange. Misfits and conformists, conservatives and idealists, performers and introverts, they mixed with everyone from Queen Victoria to Chaim Weizmann, Rossini to Isaiah Berlin, and the Duke of Wellington to Alec Guinness, as well as with amphetamine dealers, suffragists and avant-garde artists. Rothschild women helped bring down ghetto walls in early nineteenth-century Frankfurt, inspired some of the most remarkable cultural movements of the Victorian period, and in the mid-twentieth century burst into America, where they patronized Thelonious Monk and drag-raced through Manhattan with Miles Davis. The Women of Rothschild gives voice to the complicated, privileged, and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history."-- Provided by publisher. 20221104. Rothschild family. Women Great Britain Biography. Great Britain Biography. Biographies. QS5