Fortune's Daughters

The story of Jennie, Clara and Leonie Jerome is one of glamour, money and love in equal measure. Their father Leonard was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife was as extravagant as her husband. His daughters were provided with every advantage and lived charmed lives. They were acclaimed wherever they went and became known, simply, as 'the Good, the Witty and the Beautiful.' Elisabeth Kehoe's delightful and kaleidoscopic book spans more than one hundred years of family history, taking in nineteenth-century New York; the fall of the Second empire in France; and Britain during both world wars. Elisabeth Kehoe has drawn on original research to write the definitive life and times of these remarkable women. Their poignant stories describe their ultimately unsuccessful quest for true love and happiness.