THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD
The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty
By Natalie Livingstone
“Hugely entertaining…a fascinating story, stylishly told.”
–Sunday Times (UK)
“In this gripping biography, Natalie Livingstone shows that Rothschild women were the velvet gloves guiding the iron fists of their male relatives and far from being mere appendages, they acted as trusted confidants and silent partners.”
–Hannah Rothschild, author of The Improbability of Love
“This brilliantly researched and scintillatingly written book is proof positive that the females of the Rothschild species were even more fascinating and talented than the males.”
–Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny
In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone tells the story of the forgotten women who emerged from the world’s most famous dynasty, and changed history
From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields to Scottish castles, from Bletchley Park to Buchenwald, and from the late eighteenth century to the dawn of the twenty-first, THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty (St. Martin’s Press; October 25, 2022) by Natalie Livingstone unearths the extraordinary lives and remark.
As Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Excluded from the family bank, they forged their own distinct dynasty of daughters and nieces, mothers and aunts. THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD shows how these determined women became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising prime ministers, advocating for social reform, and trading on the stock exchange. Misfits and conformists, conservatives and idealists, performers and introverts, they mixed with everyone from Queen Victoria to Chaim Weizmann, Rossini to Isaiah Berlin, and the Duke of Wellington to Alec Guinness, as well as with amphetamine-dealers, suffragists and avant-garde artists. Rothschild women helped bring down ghetto walls in early nineteenth-century Frankfurt, inspired some of the most remarkable cultural movements of the Victorian period, and in the mid-twentieth century burst into America, where they patronized Thelonious Monk and drag-raced through Manhattan with Miles Davis.
Absorbing and compulsive, THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD gives voice to the complicated, privileged, and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
NATALIE LIVINGSTONE was born and raised in London. She graduated with a first class degree in history from Christ’s College, Cambridge in 1998. She began her career as a feature writer at the Daily Express and now contributes to Tatler, Harper’s Bazaar, US Vogue, Elle, The Times and The Mail on Sunday. Natalie lives in London with her husband and three children. She is the author of The Mistresses of Cliveden and The Women of Rothschild.
THE WOMEN OF ROTHSCHILD: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty
By Natalie Livingstone
St. Martin’s Press | October 25, 2022
Hardcover: 9781250280190 | $39.99 USD
eBook: 9781250280206 | $19.99 USD
