The Glitter and the Gold by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
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Overview: Only one American woman could have written this book. Living through the end of the Victorian Age until December 6, 1964, Consuelo Balsan looks back on an era of extraordinary historical interest, on friendships with celebrated persons and on a lost world of distinction and privilege in which she played a leading part. Intimately, wittily, and with disenchanted affection, she writes of New York society and of its personalities in the eighties and nineties, the golden years of the original “400.” She recalls their lavish entertainments, the extraordinary “period” houses they built on Fifth Avenue, the country places in Newport and on Long Island to which they moved at the season’s end and the yachts in which they roamed about the world. It was a time when young ladies were strictly brought up by parents who had but one object in mind—a great marriage. In these recollections Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan tells her story, candidly and objectively. She recreates, in authentic, amused and amusing detail, a world which has long since come to an end, but which still has the power to fascinate those who never knew it. Furthermore, she is able to discriminate, for her readers and for herself, the difference between its glitter and its gold.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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