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She also shows how Belmont's activism, and the money she used to support it, enriches our understanding of the personal dynamics of the American woman's rights movement. Her analysis of Belmont's memoirs illustrates how Belmont went about the complex and collaborative process of creating her public self. 978-0-253-00560-1.
Alva Erskine Stirling. Smith. Belmont. Whitewood Plot, Sections 133, 134. Suffragette. Born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, she was the daughter of a successful cotton merchant and plantation owner. Her parents were ruined at the outbreak of the Civil War and fled to Paris, France with their five children. When they returned to the United States ...
Feb 28, 2022 · Alva Belmont was born in Mobile, Alabama on January 17th, 1853. Growing up, Belmont was the middle child of five children and was labeled as an “impossible child”. When Belmont was only four years old, her brother passed away, and vividly remembered family friends making horrible remarks to her parents about how it’s more tragic that her ...
After Belmont’s death, Alva was devastated, alienated and eager to start a new chapter. Her interest in social and political reform and activism—inspired by her daughter’s reform work in England and a close friend’s joining the U.S. suffragist cause—prompted Alva to attend her first suffrage meetings around 1908-09.
Dec 6, 2012 · Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was an ambitious transatlantic socialite, the mastermind behind the gilded architecture of Marble House in Newport, Rhode Island, and the overbearing mother-of-the-bride at the 1895 wedding of her daughter Consuelo to the Duke of Marlborough.
The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument (formerly the Sewall House (1800–1929), Alva Belmont House (1929–1972), and the Sewall–Belmont House and Museum (1972–2016)) is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The ...
Alva E. Smith Belmont (Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont), an American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader, born in Mobile, Ala., daughter of Murray Forbes and Phoebe Ann Smith. She was educated in France, and in 1874 was married to William K. Vanderbilt. In 1896 she became the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, who died in 1908. Mrs.
