Women of Means: The Fascinating Biographies of Royals, Heiresses, Eccentrics and Other Poor Little Rich Girls

Glimpse Behind the Façade of Rich and Famous Women. If you liked The Last Castle and Lean In, you’ll love Women of Means.

The Grass Isn't Greener on the Other Side: Heiresses have always been viewed with eyes of envy. They were the ones for whom the cornucopia had been upended, showering them with unimaginable wealth and opportunity. However, through intimate historical biographies, Women of Means shows us that oftentimes the weaving sisters saved their most heart-wrenching tapestries for the destinies of wealthy women.

Happily Never After: From the author of Behind Every Great Man, we now have Women of Means, vignettes of the women who were slated from birth―or marriage―to great privilege, only to endure lives which were the stuff Russian tragic heroines are made of. They are the nonfictional Richard Corys―those not slated for happily ever after.

Women of Means is bound to be a non-fiction best seller, full of the best biographies of all time. Some of the women whose silver spoons rusted include:

Almira Carnarvon, the real-life counterpart to Lady Cora of Downton Abbey
Liliane Bettencourt, whose chemist father created L’Oreal... and was a Nazi collaborator
Peggy Guggenheim, who had an insatiable appetite for modern art and men
Nica Rothschild, who traded her gilded life to become the Baroness of Bebop
Jocelyn Wildenstein, who became a cosmetology-enhanced cat-woman
Ruth Madoff, the dethroned queen of Manhattan
Patty Hearst, who trod the path from heiress... to terrorist

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