Gilded Age New York was all about flaunting your money. And no one did it better than the first families of excess, the Astors and the Vanderbilts. Part two is all about multi-hyphenate Alva Vanderbilt. Social climber, society leader, architect, suffragette. We will also take a look at her daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. Tune in! Photos Vanderbilt Costume Ball of 1883: https://www.antiquetrader.com/collecting-101/the-vanderbilt-ball-of-1883 Electric Light Dress: https://theenchantedmanor.com//wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Alice-Vanderbilt-dressed-as-the-Electric-Light-for-the-ball-3-26-1883.jpg Consuelo Vanderbilt: https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/consuelo-vanderbilt-2.jpg Nonfiction Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mckenzie Stuart Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper Social Climber: The Iron Will and Determined Rise of Alva Vanderbilt by The Gilded Gentelman Podcast Edith Wharton’s New York by The Bowery Boys Podcast Fiction The Gilded Age on HBO The Social Graces by Renee Rosen A Well Behaved Woman by Theresa Anne Fowler