Cornelia Van Hofwegen

New York - MCMXXX

Addressed As

Overgrootmoeder / Great Grandmother / Anouska

Appearance

An elderly woman of fragile appearance bound to a wheelchair and clothed in the finest Victorian garb and drenched in antique jewelry.

Background

Cornelia Van Hofwegen was born in 1832. The youngest of several children born to the shipping tycoon Wendel Van Hofwegen and his wife Ambrosine Astor-Van Hofwegen. Despite her youth and sex Anouska rose to dominate her family's shipping empire after her father's death. At surprisingly young age she made herself the center of not only her family, but of New York society when she moved from the ancestral home in New Canaan, Connecticut to uptown Manhattan at the Madison and Park Avenue districts. Although Cornelia admits that the Hotel Ambassador was not built specifically for her, she was a significant and original investor, and that she has the seventh floor as her exclusive abode says much to the blue blooded society scions who come to her exclusive gatherings.

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