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Bezig met laden... The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracydoor Anne De Courcy
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. To tell you the truth, I read this as a book club read and was saddened that people with so much money were unhappy because of status. Come on... ( ) This was an enjoyable book. I'd recommend this to anyone with an interest in Gilded Age history. Anne de Courcy profiles the history of the wealthy American heiresses who joined the ranks of the British aristocracy. We've got Jennie Churchill, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Consuelo Yznaga, May Goelet, and Emerald Cunard. There are even some that I hadn't heard of before, so it was refreshing to get a bit more of that history. However, I did have a quibble with de Courcy. She is the author of "The Viceroy's Daughters", so she should've known better. She kept calling Mary Curzon, a marchioness and Vicereine of India. It's true that she became the highest ranking woman in the British Raj. Sadly, she was never a marchioness. She died before her husband was appointed to that title. Still, it's a good book and very entertaining. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. 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"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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