Note to the reader:

While Marble House, the Breakers, Kingscote, and the Elms are actual “cottages” once used by the elite of Newport society at the end of the nineteenth century, Seaside and Tranquility exist only in the imagination. However, many of the Newport mansions disappeared over the years and only a handful are left. I beg Alva and Consuelo Vanderbilt’s indulgence as I use parts of their true story here, as well as make room for Tranquility and Seaside along Newport’s famed Bellevue Avenue.

Also, Mrs. Oliver H.P. Belmont did not open the Newport County Suffrage League until the summer of 1912. However, who’s to say that ladies didn’t have the inclination to gather and discuss women’s rights and suffrage in 1895? The ladies’ suffrage movement had already taken hold in America by that time.