Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt
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44 Quoted in Balsan, Glitter, p. 168.
45 Quoted in Pittsburgh Times, 18 November 1913.
46 Quoted in New York Tribune, 22 April 1913.
47 Kansas City Journal, 1 May 1913.
48 St Louis Republic, 1 May 1913.
49 An English correspondent writing in the Houston Chronicle, 21 April 1913.
50 New York Journal, 30 April 1913.
51 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 412.
52 ‘Autobiographical Note’, DSUP, p. 22.
53 Balsan, Glitter, p. 170.
54 Balsan, Glitter, p. 172.
55 ‘Autobiographical Note’, DSUP, p. 23.
56 NWPP: 1913–1972, Series 1, Correspondence, 1913–1972, Alva Belmont Correspondence Scrapbook, pp. 12–13.
57 ‘Autobiographical Note’, DSUP, p. 24.
58 The New York Times, 13 September 1913.
59 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, pp. 439–40.
60 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 439.
61 ‘Autobiographical Note’, DSUP, p. 25.
62 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 456.
63 Alice Paul to Mary Hutchinson Page, 3 July 1914, NWPP, LCW.
64 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 498.
65 New York City Press, 28 June 1914.
66 The New York Times, 6 July 1914.
67 The New York Times, 27 June 1914.
68 The New York Times, 6 July 1914.
69 Providence RI Journal, 7 July 1914.
70 New York Herald, 9 July 1914.
71 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 507.
72 The New York Times, 9 July 1914.
73 New York City American, 18 July 1914.
74 Doris Stevens to Alice Paul, 8 July 1914, NWPP, LCW.
75 New York Call, 12 July 1914.
76 Unidentified press cutting, 12 July 1914, Alva Belmont Clippings Book, 1914. There were reports of Consuelo’s speech in the New York Evening Sun, Brooklyn Eagle, England Mercury, New York City American, Boston Post, Washington Post, Oakland Tribune, Syracuse Herald, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Baltimore Sun, Atlanta Constitution and Louisville Post, among others.
77 Town Topics, 16 July 1914.
78 Doris Stevens to Alice Paul, 8 July 1914, NWPP, LCW.
79 Alice Paul to Alva Belmont, 11 July 1914, NWPP National Woman’s Party Papers LCW.
80 Alice Paul to Alva Belmont, 11 July 1914, NWPP, LCW.
81 Alice Paul to Alva Belmont, 16 July 1914, NWPP, LCW.
82 Doris Stevens to Alice Paul, undated July 1914, NWPP, LCW.
83 Chicago Record, 21 July 1914.
84 Town Topics, 23 July 1914.
85 Belmont Memoirs (Young), p. 163.
86 Town Topics, 30 July 1914.
87 Holyoke Transcript, 24 July 1914, quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 513.
88 Dunkirk New York Observer, 16 July 1914.
10 LOVE, PHILANTHROPY AND SUFFRAGE
1 Town Topics, 6 August 1914.
2 Lord Lansdowne to Duke of Marlborough, 9 May 1911 Marlborough Papers, LCW.
3 Balsan, Glitter, p. 158.
4 Balsan, Glitter, p. 189.
5 Balsan, Glitter, p. 162.
6 M. G. Hoare to C., 14 August 1953, VA.
7 Quoted in J. Musson, The English Manor House: from the Archives of Country Life (London: Aurum Press, 1999), p. 65.
8 C. Aslet, The Last Country Houses (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 162.
9 P. Morand, Nouvelles Complètes, Vol. 1., edited by Michel Collomb and translated by Aoife Ní Luanaigh (Paris: Editions Gallimard, 1992), pp. xl, 750 and 748.
10 Morand, Nouvelles Complètes, p. 758.
11 Morand, Nouvelles Complètes, pp. 764 and 748.
12 Consuelo to Lord D’Abernon, 14 September 1912 in Add. MS 48939, D’Abernon Papers, British Library.
13 Duke of Marlborough to GD from Hotel Bristol, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, 18 March 1913, GDP.
14 Duke of Marlborough to GD from Hotel Bristol, 18 March 1913, GDP.
15 Duke of Marlborough to GD, Easter Sunday 1913, GDP.
16 Duke of Marlborough to GD, 13 September 1912, GDP.
17 Clipping from Town Topics, 15 March 1913, GDP.
18 The Times, 22 November 1910.
19 Duke of Marlborough to GD, 17 July 1915, GDP.
20 Lord Lansdowne to WSC, 7 July 1915, CHAR 2/67/26, CA.
21 Duke of Marlborough to GD, 8 July 1915, GDP.
22 Balsan, Glitter, p. 178.
23 Balsan, Glitter, p. 177.
24 Balsan, Glitter, p. 183.
25 Duke of Marlborough to GD, 27 December 1917, GDP.
26 Duke of Marlborough to GD, 19 January, probably 1916, GDP.
27 Duke of Marlborough to GD, undated, GDP.
28 D. Stevens, Jailed For Freedom: American Women Win the Vote, edited by C. O’Hare from the original edition (Troutdale: New Sage Press, 1995; first published in 1920), p. 44.
29 R. B. Mackay, A. K. Baker and C. Traynor (eds) Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects 1860–1940 (New York: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities in association with W. W. Norton & Co., 1997), p. 231.
30 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 566.
31 E. Maxwell, The Celebrity Circus (London: W. H. Allen, 1964), p. 12.
32 Maxwell, Celebrity Circus, p. 13.
33 Memo on Elsa Maxwell, DSUP, p. 13.
34 The New York Times, 28 December 1915.
35 Mrs O. H. P. Belmont and Elsa Maxwell, (music and lyrics by Elsa Maxwell), Melinda and Her Sisters (New York: Robert J. Shores, 1916), pp. 3–4.
36 Theater Magazine, February 1916.
37 Belmont and Maxwell, Melinda and Her Sisters, pp. 30, 32. Alva is also said to have secretly contributed $10,000 secretly to the Southern Woman Suffrage Conference which was explicitly against black women having the vote saying: ‘I plead guilty to so strong a desire for the political emancipation of women that I am not at all particular as to how it shall be granted,’ (see C. Stasz, The Vanderbilt Women: dynasty of wealth, glamour and tragedy; this edition San Jose, New York: to Exel 1999, first published New York: St Martin’s Press, 1991, p. 215).
38 New York Telegraph, 19 February 1916.
39 New York Sun, 19 February 1916.
40 Memo on relationship with Mrs Belmont, DSUP, p. 6.
41 Alice Paul, Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, interview by Amerlia R. Fry, November 1972 and May 1973, ‘Congressional Union Becomes the Woman’s Party’, PP. 347–48.
42 Memo on relationship with Mrs Belmont, DSUP, p. 6.
43 SBF to CESW, 2 August 1917, CESWP.
44 SBF to CESW, 16 August 1917, CESWP.
45 Alva E. Belmont, Log of the Seminole (New York: privately printed, 1916), p. 67.
46 Belmont, Log of the Seminole, pp. 67–8.
47 Belmont, Log of the Seminole, p. 64.
48 Belmont, Log of the Seminole, p. 64.
49 Belmont, Log of the Seminole, p. 28.
50 Belmont, Log of the Seminole, p. 23.
51 Belmont, Log of the Seminole, p. 33.
52 Belmont, Log of the Seminole, pp. 48–9.
53 Stevens, Jailed For Freedom, p. 58.
54 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 630.
55 Sara Bard Field, Online Archive of California, (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/), interview by Amerlia R. Fry between 1 October 1959 and 31 October 1963, XXIV, ‘Politics, Newport and Tragedy, Mrs Belmont’s “Autobiography”’, p. 369.
56 SBF to CESW, 16 August 1917, CESWP.
57 SBF to CESW, 27 July 1917, p. 3, CESWP.
58 SBF to CESW, 16 August 1917, CESWP.
59 SBF to CESW, 24 August 1917, p. 1, CESWP.
60 SBF to CESW, 27 July 1917, p. 3, CESWP.
61 SBF to CESW, 27 July 1917, p. 3, CESWP.
62 SBF to CESW, 29 July 1917, p. 3, CESWP.
63 Sara Bard Field, Online
Archive of California, interview by Amerlia R. Fry between 1 October 1959 and 31 October 1963, XXVI, ‘Adjustment, Digression: Mrs Belmont’s Divorce’, p. 391.
64 SBF to CESW, 29 July 1917, p. 7, CESWP.
65 SBF to CESW, 31 July 1917, p. 3, CESWP.
66 Sara Bard Field, Online Archive of California, ‘Mrs Belmont’s “Autobiography”’, p. 371.
67 Sara Bard Field, Online Archive of California, ‘Mrs Belmont’s “Autobiography”’, pp. 371–72.
68 Notes on conversation with Elsie Powers, Collection of the Preservation Society of Newport County.
69 Sara Bard Field, Online Archive of California, interview by Amerlia R. Fry between 1 October 1959 and 31 October 1963, XXIX, ‘The Woman’s Party, Peace and Religion’, 12 July 1962 (no page nos).
70 ‘Note de service pour le feuillet du personnel du Commandant Balsan’, probably written in 1919 and supporting the award of the Croix de Guerre avec Palme. Jacques had already been made Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in January 1913 for his Moroccan expeditions.
71 Quoted in P. M. Flammer, The Vivid Air: the Lafayette Escadrille (Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press, 1981), p.11.
72 Montgomery-Massingberd, Blenheim Revisited, p. 172.
73 Montgomery-Massingberd, Blenheim Revisited, p. 172.
74 Balsan, Glitter, p. 179.
75 Balsan, Glitter, p. 179.
76 Balsan, Glitter, p. 144.
77 World, 13 November 1917.
78 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 646.
79 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 648.
80 Quoted in Geidel, Forgotten Feminist’, p. 650.
81 Balsan, Glitter, p. 158.
82 W. Lee to author, April 2005.
83 W. Lee to author, April 2005.
84 Quoted in The Times, 24 February 1922.
85 Balsan, Glitter, p. 212.
86 Balsan, Glitter, p. 189.
87 Balsan, Glitter, p. 187.
88 Balsan, Glitter, p. 189.
89 The New York Times, 24 March 1920.
90 The Duke of Marlborough to GD, 10 November 1920, GDP.
91 Quoted in Vickers, Gladys, p. 173.
92 Quoted in Vickers, Gladys, p. 173.
93 Quoted in Vickers, Gladys, p. 175.
94 Balsan, Glitter, p. 190.
11 A STORY RE-TOLD
1 Balsan, Glitter, p. 113.
2 Balsan, Glitter, pp. 193–94.
3 William K. Vanderbilt Probate Papers, File No. 24398. It was also reported in the press that he transferred $15 million to Consuelo shortly before his death but there is no record of this in his probate papers.
4 Balsan, Glitter, p. 194.
5 L. H. Prost, Collection de Madame et du Colonel Balsan (Paris: privately printed c. 1930).
6 Balsan, Glitter, p. 197.
7 Balsan, Glitter, p. 203.
8 R. Cameron, The Golden Riviera (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975), p. 46.
9 G. Vanderbilt and Lady Furness, Double Exposure: A Twin Autobiography (London: Frederic Muller Ltd, 1959), p. 185.
10 CSC to WSC c. 8 March 1925, CHAR 1/179/5–7, CA.
11 Soames, Clementine, p. 288. Winston Churchill’s description of the Riviera scenery as ‘paintatious’ appears on p. 287.
12 CSC to WSC, 24 February 1924, quoted in M. Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves: The Personal Letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill (London: Black Swan, 1999; first published London: Doubleday, 1998), p. 279.
13 CSC to WSC, c. 8 March 1925, CHAR 1/179/5–7, CA.
14 Balsan, Glitter, p. 190.
15 S. Obolensky, One Man in His Time: The Memoirs of Serge Obolensky (New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958), p. 303.
16 Balsan, Glitter, p. 222.
17 Balsan, Glitter, p. 219.
18 CSC to WSC, c. 8 March 1925, CHAR 1/179/5–7, CA.
19 Balsan, Glitter, p. 218.
20 Cameron, Golden Riviera, p. 46.
21 CSC to WSC, c. 8 March 1925, CHAR 1/179/5–7, CA.
22 Balsan, Glitter, p. 204.
23 ‘Chez Madame Balsan’ in Edith Wharton Papers.
24 Quoted in Adeline R. Tintner, ‘Consuelo Vanderbilt, John Esquemeling and the Buccaneers’, in Edith Wharton in Context: Essays on Intertextuality (Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 1999), P. 146.
25 Balsan, Glitter, p. 215.
26 Washington Star, 2 April 1922.
27 Memorandum: General Statement, p. 7, DSUP.
28 S. J. Morris, Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce (New York: Random House, 1997), p. 114. Clare Boothe Luce is quoted as saying in her diary: ‘I don’t like older women who get a crush on girls, and several of them around here make entirely too great a fuss over me for it to be comfortable.’
29 Memo: General Statement, p. 8, DSUP.
30 Maxwell, I Married the World, pp. 81–2.
31 Memo: General Statement, p. 10, DSUP.
32 Memo: General Statement, p. 4, DSUP.
33 Memo: General Statement, p. 6, DSUP.
34 E. Drexel Lehr (Lady Decies), The Turn of the World (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1937), p. 44.
35 ‘Women as Dictators’, Ladies Home Journal, 39, September 1922.
36 ‘Women as Dictators’.
37 ‘Women as Dictators’.
38 ‘Women as Dictators’.
39 ‘Women as Dictators’.
40 New York City Journal, 25 October 1922.
41 The New York Times, 1 October 1922.
42 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 692.
43 Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 693.
44 Chicago Tribune, 1 June 1926.
45 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 705.
46 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 706.
47 CSC to WSC from Grantully Castle, Perthshire, 6 September 1926, quoted in Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 299.
48 CSC to WSC, Grantully, 6 September 1926, in Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 299.
49 CSC to WSC, Grantully, 6 September 1926, Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 299.
50 See Vickers, Gladys, pp. 208–09.
51 Balsan, Glitter, p. 192.
52 Balsan, Glitter, p. 193.
53 Balsan, Glitter, p. 192.
54 ‘Marlborough Gets Marriage Annulled by Catholic Court’, The New York Times, 13 November 1926.
55 ‘Marlborough Gets Marriage …’, The New York Times, 13 November 1926.
56 ‘Duchess Obtained Annulment Decree in Marlborough Suit’, The New York Times, 14 November 1926.
57 ‘Women have given their time, their energy and their money to support the church,’ she wrote. ‘We are allowed to sit in the pews, but not to stand in the pulpit. The men of the church accept our support, but are not willing to share their exalted position with us. We are required to acknowledge man as our spiritual superior. We do not acknowledge him as such, and we know that Christ did not acknowledge him.’ Women should be allowed to be priests, argued Alva. ‘If you are worthy to be a priest be a priest, but if I am worthy to be a priest I shall be a priest too. We will both be priests.’ ‘Women as Dictators’, Ladies Home Journal.
58 Memorandum: General Statement, p. 12, DSUP.
59 ‘Mrs Belmont Twits Bishop About Gift’, The New York Times, 28 April 1926.
60 Chicago Tribune, 1 June 1926.
61 Elsa Maxwell, I Married the World (London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1955), p. 80.
62 The New York Times, 15 November 1926.
63 The New York Times, 18 November 1926.
64 The New York Times, 22 November 1926.
65 The New York Times, 23 November 1926.
66 The New York Times, 19 November 1926.
67 The New York Times, 20 November 1926.
68 The New York Times, 26 November 1926.
69 The New York Times, 26 November 1926.
70 The New York Times, 25 November 1926. The
se extracts were translated from an advance copy of the summary that appeared in Acta Apostolicae Sedis in December 1926. The translation that appeared seems to have been commissioned by The New York Times. Most of it was from the witness statements in French rather than the summary in Latin.
71 The New York Times, 18 November 1926.
72 World, 17 November 1926.
73 ‘Former Duchess Was Not Driven Into Marriage’, People, 21 November 1926.
74 The New York Times, 21 November 1926.
75 The New York Times, 27 November 1926.
76 The New York Times, 28 November 1926.
77 The New York Times, 30 November 1926.
78 Quoted in Candace Waid’s introduction to The Buccaneers (London: J. M. Dent, 1993; Everyman 1996), p. xix.
79 Balsan, Glitter, p. 193.
80 The New York Times, 25 November 1926 and Acta Apostolicae Sedis, December 1926.
81 ‘Women as Dictators’, Ladies Home Journal.
82 Balsan, Glitter, p. 192.
83 Sara Bard Field, Online Archive of California (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/), interview by Amerlia R. Fry recorded between 1 October 1959 and 31 October 1963, XIX, ‘The Demands of the Suffrage Movement; The Politics of Women’s Suffrage’, p. 301.
84 The New York Times, 1 December 1926.
12 FRENCH LIVES
1 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 758.
2 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 758.
3 ‘The Marlborough-Vanderbilt marriage annulment’: letters of the Right Reverend John J. Dunn V.G. Auxiliary Bishop of New York, and of Charles C. Marshall to The New York Times, November–December 1926.
4 Balsan, Glitter, p. 224.
5 Balsan, Glitter, p. 228.
6 Balsan, Glitter, p. 189.
7 Balsan, Glitter, p. 228. She also medievalised her estate by building a long crenellated wall round its boundary.
8 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 694.
9 Balsan, Glitter, p. 185.
10 New York Sun, 28 September 1928.
11 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 708.
12 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 748.
13 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 748.
14 Balsan, Glitter, pp. 228–29. In fact the statue, which is still in the church at Augerville, is not life-sized.
15 The New York Times, 7 September 1928.
16 Balsan, Glitter, p. 229.
17 Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 714.
18 Quoted in Geidel, ‘Forgotten Feminist’, p. 751.