Excluded from the family bank, they forged their own distinct dynasty of daughters and nieces, mothers and aunts. In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power.įrom 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 Vatican to Palestine, Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twenty-first.Īs Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders.
They broke code, played a pioneering role in the environmental movement, scandalised the world of women's tennis by introducing the overarm serve and drag-raced with Miles Davies in Manhattan.Or for Kindle or at Bookshop The Untold Story of the World’s Most Famous Dynasty Misfits and conformists, conservatives and idealists, they mixed with Rossini and Mendelssohn, Disraeli, Gladstone and Chaim Weizmann, amphetamine-dealers, temperance campaigners, Queen Victoria and Albert Einstein. They became influential hostesses and talented diplomats, choreographing electoral campaigns, advising prime ministers, advocating for social reform and trading on the stock exchange. Determined to challenge and subvert expectations, they supported each other, building on the legacies of their mothers and aunts. Natalie Livingstone follows the extraordinary lives of the English branch of the Rothschild women from the dawn of the 19th century to the early years of the 21st.Īs Jews in a Christian society and women in a deeply patriarchal family, they were outsiders. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown.
The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologised.
Absorbing and compulsive, The Women of Rothschild gives voice to the complicated, privileged and gifted women whose vision and tenacity shaped history.
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