Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties

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Title:

Defending Alice : a novel of love and race in the roaring twenties

Author:

Stratton, Richard (Richard H.), author.

ISBN:

9780063115460

Personal Author:

Stratton, Richard (Richard H.), author.

Edition:

First HarperVia edition

Physical Description:

566 pages ; 24 cm

Abstract:

In a novel based on a real-life case, 1920s New York society is set ablaze when Alice Jones, a working-class woman with at least one black parent, marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of a wealthy, prominent family, who makes international headlines after he sues for annulment, accusing her of hiding her "Negro blood."

Personal Subject:

Jones, Alice Beatrice-Fiction.

Subject Term:

Interracial marriage -- Fiction.

Scandals -- Fiction.

Marriage -- Annulment -- Fiction.

Trials (Divorce) -- New York (State) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1898-1951 -- Fiction.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.