A Mansion of Her Own
The Mysterious Life of Heiress Alice DeLamar
$46.75
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
8 December 2026
Summary
For fans of Vanderbilt and The Last Castle, a riveting biography of the reclusive heiress who became a fairy godmother to twentieth-century artists while intently guarding her own secrets.
In 1918, at twenty-three, Alice Delamar inherited the vast fortune of her mining magnate father, reportedly becoming the richest maiden of her time. She was swiftly hounded by the press, who wanted to know: Would she assume her father’s famed Pembroke Estate? What would she do with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781538772072 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1538772078 |
| Author: | Nona Footz, Audrey Clare Farley |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Grand Central Publishing |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 8 December 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
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Critics Review
”[A]n incredible contribution to biographical literature from a new author.“–Booklist
“An exceptional, well-written, and well-researched biography of a mining heiress and arts patron.”–Library Journal
“History has a way of sidelining even the most fascinating women, but Nona Footz refuses to let Alice Delamar remain in the shadows. Through exhaustive research, Footz resurrects a woman who was eccentric, fiercely generous, and entirely her own – a lesbian heiress who poured her fortune into the arts at a time when society simply wanted her to find a husband and settle down. A Mansion of Her Own is impeccably researched and a rollicking good time. Footz’s storytelling is a welcome reminder that women have always been far more interesting than they’ve been given credit for.”–Deb Miller Landau, Author of A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege, and the Murder of Lita McClinton
“Nona Footz’s A Mansion of Her Own is simply marvelous. Deftly combining three genres - biography, mystery, and autobiography - Footz introduces us to the unforgettable heiress and art benefactor Alice DeLamar; discloses in tantalizing nuggets DeLamar’s many buried secrets; and wrestles with her own conclusions as she struggles to pry those secrets away from Alice’s mischievous friends. All of that would be satisfying enough, but Footz gives us more. Her book is also a journey through the bedrooms and drawing rooms of the twentieth-century art world where luminaries expressed forbidden sexual desires and found inspiration for much of the art they created. The book is so good, I picked it up and barely breathed until I was finished.”–Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women
Nona Footz
Nona Footz is currently an executive and board recruiter and has been a freelance writer for the magazines VENU and for Art New England. In addition, Footz is an adjunct faculty member at New York University. A MANSION OF HER OWN is her first book.
Audrey Clare Farley is the author of The Unfit Heiress and Girls and Their Monsters, which won the Michigan Notable Book Award and was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice. She lives in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
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