Charlotte & Lionel : a Rothschild love story / Stanley Weintraub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rothschild, Lionel Nathan de, Baron, 1808-1879.

Rothschild, Lionel Nathan de.

Rothschild, Charlotte de, 1819-1884.

Rothschild, Charlotte de.

Rothschild family.

Jewish bankers--Great Britain--Biography.

Jewish bankers.

Bankers--Great Britain--Biography.

Bankers.

Great Britain--Biography.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xviii, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Charlotte and Lionel

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, [2003]

Summary:

He was twenty-seven and she just sixteen when they met. An arranged marriage of first cousins, joining two branches of Europe's most powerful banking firm, it seemed an unlikely love match. Yet it lasted through tragedies and triumphs, as Charlotte became one of the grand chatelaines of the Victorian era, while Lionel became England's leading financier, and the first of his faith to win a seat in Parliament. Despite -- perhaps because of -- a surfeit of wealth, and Charlotte's realization of what money could buy, she concealed beneath a stubborn will and a sparkling wit an inner melancholy that her great admirer Benjamin Disraeli seemed to recognize.

Love and money were the cardinal preoccupations in Victorian life, and the Rothschilds abundantly possessed both. This is their enthralling story, told by one of the masterful biographers of Victorian lives.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-306) and index.

ISBN:

0743226860

OCLC:

50511533