An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

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The true story of a girl from the wilderness settlements of a burgeoning new The us who became probably the most privileged figures of the Gilded Age.

Born to a pioneering circle of relatives in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew used to be beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small homeland. At eighteen, she met Tod Hostetter at a local dance, having no idea that the mercurial charmer she would all of a sudden wed used to be heir to one of the crucial wealthiest families in The us. But if he died twelve years later, Allene packed her bags for New York City. Never once did she look back.

From the vantage point of the American upper class, Allene embodied the tumultuous Gilded Age. Over the course of four more marriages, she weathered personal tragedies right through World War I and the catastrophic financial reversals of the crash of 1929. From the castles and châteaus of Europe, she witnessed the Russian Revolution and became a princess. And from the hopes of a young girl from Jamestown, New York, Allene Tew would transform the epitome of both a pursuer and survivor of the American Dream.

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