To marry an English Lord / by Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace ; [illustrations by David Cain].
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Workman Pub., c2012.Description: x, 403 p. : ill ; 23 cmISBN:- 0761171959
- 9780761171959
- Marriage -- England -- History -- 19th century
- Nobility -- England -- History -- 19th century
- Upper class -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Marvelous and entertaining." --Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey
Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired Downton Abbey and HBO's The Gilded Age , the heiresses--including a Vanderbilt (railroads), a LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), and a Rogers (oil)--who staked their ground in England, swapping dollars for titles and marrying peers of the British realm. Filled with vivid personalities, grand houses, dashing earls, and a wealth of period details and quotes on the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette, To Marry an English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. Sex, snobbery, humor, social triumphs (and gaffes), are all recalled in marvelous detail, complete with parties, clothes, scandals, affairs, and 100-year-old gossip that's still scorching.
"Tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery"--Cover.
Originally published: 1989.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index.
The buccaneers. Old New York ; Rule Britannia ; Pushy mamas ; The first marriages -- The fair invaders. A turn in the tide ; Audacity & innocence ; The siege of London ; The competition ; Poor peers ; The self-made girl's wedding -- American heiresses : what will you bid? He stoops to conquer ; The plutocrats' daughters ; The match of the century ; She is now a duchess ; The American aristocrat's wedding -- Married heiresses. Happily ever after ; American wives & English husbands ; The heir & the spare ; Châtelaine, or, Where the money went ; Survival of the fastest ; At long last, love -- The new heiresses. Vivat rex ; Entertaining Edward ; The last marriages ; Till death or the judge do us part : the American heiress divorce ; Epilogue -- An American heiress directory. Register of American heiresses ; Walking tour of the American heiresses' London.
Read about a unique set of American women cutting a swath through stodgy 19th century British aristocracy. The book covers not just who they were but the lows and the triumphs of their inter-continental marriages. Also included are many fascinating details on how they dressed and what they had to go through.