Misfits and conformists, conservatives and idealists, performers and introverts, 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. Yet half the Rothschilds, the women, remain virtually unknown.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 English branch 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. The story of the family who rose from the Frankfurt ghetto to become synonymous with wealth and power has been much mythologized.
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