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The Husband Hunters

- Social Climbing in London and New York
Af: Anne De Courcy Engelsk Paperback

The Husband Hunters

- Social Climbing in London and New York
Af: Anne De Courcy Engelsk Paperback
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''A tale of buccaneering matriarchs marrying their American princess daughters to the dim-witted, cash-strapped sons of British peers . . . Cleverly researched, sparkling with diamonds and wickedly funny'' Spectator

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known ''Dollar Princess'', married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age.

Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them.

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''A tale of buccaneering matriarchs marrying their American princess daughters to the dim-witted, cash-strapped sons of British peers . . . Cleverly researched, sparkling with diamonds and wickedly funny'' Spectator

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known ''Dollar Princess'', married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age.

Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 336
ISBN-13: 9781474601450
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1474601456
Kategori: Biografiske samlinger
Udg. Dato: 3 maj 2018
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 199mm
Højde: 132mm
Forlag: Orion Publishing Co
Oplagsdato: 3 maj 2018
Forfatter(e): Anne De Courcy
Forfatter(e) Anne De Courcy

Kategori Biografiske samlinger

ISBN-13 9781474601450

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 336

Udgave

Længde 25mm

Bredde 199mm

Højde 132mm

Udg. Dato 3 maj 2018

Oplagsdato 3 maj 2018

Forlag Orion Publishing Co

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