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The Husband Hunters

The Husband Hunters 1

Social Climbing in London and New York

by Anne de Courcy
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Publication Date: 30/05/2017
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A sparkling social history of the 'Dollar Princesses', the young American heiresses who married into the English aristocracy.

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.

ISBN:
9781474601443
9781474601443
Category:
Collected biographies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-05-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
368
Dimensions (mm):
241.3x158.75x31.75mm
Weight:
0.45kg
Anne de Courcy

Anne de Courcy is a well-known writer and journalist. In the 1970s she was Woman's Editor on the London Evening News and in the 1980s she was a regular feature-writer for the Evening Standard.

She is also a former feature writer and reviewer for the Daily Mail. Her recent books include The Viceroy's Daughters and Debs at War.

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A very good read.

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