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Alva remarried on January 11, 1896, to Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, one of her ex-husband's old friends. [13] Oliver had been a friend of the Vanderbilts since the late 1880s and like William was a great fan of yachting and horse racing. He had accompanied them on at least two long voyages aboard their yacht, the Alva. Scholars have written ...
Alva Belmont, socialite and suffrage benefactor [11] Mrs. Perry Belmont (Jessie Ann Robbins), wife of the New York politician and diplomat [12] Sarah Bernhardt, actress [13] Elizabeth Lucy Bibesco, English writer and socialite [14] Amelia Bingham, actress [15] Alice Stone Blackwell, suffrage leader and editor [16]
Photograph of Alva Smith Vanderbilt at her 1883 Ball as "Venetian Renaissance Lady". Alva, the first wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt and second wife of Oliver Belmont, was one of Astor's successors. Photographed by José Maria Mora. Photograph of Mamie Fish, the wife of Stuyvesant Fish, and one of Astor's successors.
The Brookholt School of Agriculture for Women (also known as Belmont's farm school for girls) was an experimental American farm vocational school for women. Established on April 1, 1911, by Alva Belmont on her Brookholt estate, [1] located in the hamlet of East Meadow, 3 miles (4.8 km) from Hempstead, Long Island, New York, it was believed to be the first institution of its kind for the ...
Alva Belmont; Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop (1858–1916) – lecturer, instructor, author, pioneer suffragist. Frances Maule Bjorkman; Irene Moorman Blackstone (1872–after 1944) – African-American suffragist instrumental in integrating the suffrage fight in New York. [9] Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace ...
Two characters, Bertha and George Russell (Carrie Coon and Morgan Spector), appear to be at least partly based on the formidable Alva and William K. Vanderbilt. Alva Erskine Vanderbilt (later Alva Belmont) came from a wealthy Mobile, Alabama, family that lost its money after the Civil War. Determined to regain her social status, she married a ...
For the stage production, costume designer Susan Hilferty embedded color into Elphaba's black dresses, a look she told Playbill in 2018 was inspired by "looking at the stones in earth and gems."
The Belmont–Paul Women's Equality National Monument (formerly the Sewall House (1800–1929), Alva Belmont House (1929–1972), and the Sewall–Belmont House and Museum (1972–2016)) is a historic house and museum of the U.S. women's suffrage and equal rights movements located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.