- Title:
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The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty (MP3)
- Written by:
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Natalie Livingstone
- Read by:
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Francesca Waters
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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13 hours 58 minutes
- MP3 size:
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606 MB
- Published:
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November 11 2021
- Available Date:
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November 11 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781867581543
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Biography; European; History
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Absorbing and compulsive, The Women of Rothschild gives voice to the complicated, privileged and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.
The family that rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologised. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown.
Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the English branch of the Rothschild women from the late-18th century to the early years of the 21st.
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, they mixed with everyone from Queen Victoria to Chaim Weizmann, Rossini to Thelonious Monk, and the Duke of Wellington to Alec Guinness, as well as with amphetamine-dealers, suffragists, and avant-garde artists.
Absorbing and compulsive, The Women of Rothschild gives voice to the complicated, privileged and gifted women who dared to defy the expectations of their family and society, and in doing so shaped history.
'For far too long, the significant contribution made by Rothschild women to our family's extraordinary history and success has gone largely unacknowledged.'
Hannah Rothschild, author of The Improbability of Love
'Indomitable matriarchs, ground-breaking scientists, political activists, witty and gorgeous socialites, tasteful philanthropists, hardened survivors: these pages are populated by outsized personalities who will live with you long after you have read the final page.'
Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny
'Captivating, intimate, dazzling, epic and revelatory'
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of JERUSALEM