The Rothschild family is a wealthy Jewish family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s. ‘I would never be able to forgive any of my children if, contrary to these my paternal wishes, it should be allowed to happen that my sons were upset in the peaceful possession and prosecution of their business interests,’ he said.Īmong those featured include the founding matriarch of the family, Gutle, whose dowry is the very reason the bank exists in the first place, as well as Henriette who became a renowned society hostess.įrom those who became a driving force in the late nineteenth-century women's movement, to others who ditched their riches for their love of jazz music, the book explores how each woman forged her own path in the shadow of the famous banking dynasty. It's a similar theme for her latest book, which took six years of research starting at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, when she discovered that the five daughters of Gutle and Mayer Rothschild had 'just been written out of history', after their father set the tone in his will in 1812, saying that women must not be part of the bank or directly inherit wealth.
Livingtone, who is married to property billionaire Ian Livingstone - owner of the Cliveden estate - previously wrote The Mistresses of Cliveden, detailing the lives of women who lived in the house whose histories were overlooked in favour of more famous men. The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty, by Natalie Livingstone, journalist and historian, explores in detail each generation of the family's impressive women. While the story of the how the Rothschild family pulled themselves out of poverty to become one of the wealthiest families in the world has long been told, the women of the family have remained faceless.įrom those who helped build the bank up in the 1800s, to others who rejected their wealthy family's expectation completely, a new book has told the story behind the relatively unknown women of the Rothschild family.
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