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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: MacColl, Gail, 1954- To marry an English Lord. New York : Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated, 2012 (OCoLC)785196472 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gail MacColl; Carol Wallace; David Cain |
| ISBN: | 9780761171959 0761171959 |
| OCLC Number: | 779399305 |
| Notes: | "Tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery"--Cover. Originally published: 1989. |
| Description: | x, 403 p. : ill ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | by Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace ; [illustrations by David Cain]. |
Abstract:
BOOK THAT INSPIRED DOWNTON ABBEY Here is the American Heiress's story. Filled with tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery - and 100-year-old gossip that's still scorching - To Marry an English Lord is heavily illustrated and an energetic presentation of popular history
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- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
- Upper class -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
- England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
- Nobility -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- Marriage -- England -- History -- 19th century.
- United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918.
