When Alva hears some rumours that WK has been seen with another woman, she thinks she needs to do something to earn some brownie points.That is why she approaches Ward McCallister as a way to enter Caroline Astor's social circle. McCallister invites her to his Patriarch ball. The Vanderbilts are pleased about it. Yet, at the party Caroline Astor ignores her.
Samuel Ward McAllister (December 28, 1827 – January 31, 1895) was a popular arbiter of social taste in the Gilded Age of America, widely accepted as the authority to which families could be classified as the cream of New York society.
Society of Patriarchs was a society founded in 1872 in New York City by Ward McAllister that are known for hosting the Patriarch Balls, the "epitome of conspicuous display and upper-class ritual and etiquette" during the Gilded Age. The first Patriarchs Ball was held on December 13, 1881, at Delmonico's.
Caroline Webster "Lina" Schermerhorn Astor (September 22, 1830 – October 30, 1908) was an American socialite. Through her marriage, she was a member of the Astor family and matriarch of the American Astors.
Alva's father died in 1875. Murray Forbes Smith (July 21, 1814 – May 4, 1875) was an American commission merchant.
Consuelo Yznaga, Alva's friend, married george Montagu. George Victor Drogo "Kim" Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester (17 June 1853 – 18 August 1892), styled Lord Kimbolton from 1853 to 1855 and Viscount Mandeville from 1855 to 1890, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
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