Natalie Livingstone was born and raised in London. She graduated with a first class degree in history from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1998. She began her career as a feature writer at the Daily Express and now contributes to Tatler, Harper's Bazaar, US Vogue, Elle, The Times and The Mail on Sunday. Natalie lives in London with her husband and three children.
Hugely entertaining...a fascinating story, stylishly told *
Sunday Times *
For far too long, the significant contribution made by
Rothschild women to our family's extraordinary history and success
has gone largely unacknowledged. In this gripping
biography, Natalie Livingstone shows that Rothschild women were
the velvet gloves guiding the iron fists of their male relatives
and far from being mere appendages, they acted as trusted
confidants and silent partners -- HANNAH ROTHSCHILD, author of The
Improbability of Love, shortlisted for the Bailey's Women's
Prize
Captivating, intimate, dazzling epic and revelatory, this is
a brilliant history of the most fascinating and influential
dynasty suffused with politics and splendour that brings to life
not only the Rothschild women but also power and society
across three centuries -- SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE
This brilliantly researched and scintillatingly written book
is proof positive that the female of the Rothschild species were
even more fascinating and talented than the males. Indomitable
matriarchs, ground-breaking scientists, political activists, witty
and gorgeous socialites, tasteful philanthropists, hardened
survivors: these pages are populated by outsized personalities who
will live with you long after you have read the final page --
ANDREW ROBERTS, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny
Livingstone marshals a huge cast of characters, spanning two
centuries and moving with ease from the Jewish ghetto to the
grandest houses in England. She describes the Rothschild women as
an 'overlooked source of power, strength and imagination', and in
this absorbing book she has brought them out of the shadows *
Daily Mail *
Livingstone blows life into even the most casual textual references
to [the women] to reveal fully formed women . . . a stylish and
captivating tour through the three-century long history of one of
Europe's most intriguing and sprawling family trees * Reaction
*
Pacey, accessible and engrossing . . . Livingstone's
entertaining and richly detailed book reveals a cast of
extraordinary women who defied the rules and shaped society across
three centuries * Waterstones *
In this scintillating family saga, Natalie Livingstone
reveals that the Rothschild ladies were, if anything, even more
extraordinary than their fathers, brothers and husbands . . .with
consummate skill, Livingstone weaves together...the dark as well as
the light, and the result is both thrilling and moving --
KATHRYN HUGHES * Mail on Sunday *
Brilliantly conceived and beautifully written, The Women of
Rothschild . . . represents a significant contribution to our
understanding of the Jewish past * TLS *
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