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The Husband Hunters
- Social Climbing in London and New York
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Husband Hunters af Anne De Courcy, 9781474601450
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781474601450
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1474601456
Udg. Dato:
3 maj 2018
Størrelse i cm:
13,2 x 19,9 x 2,5
Oplagsdato:
3 maj 2018
Forfatter(e):

The Husband Hunters

- Social Climbing in London and New York
Engelsk
Paperback 2018
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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781474601450
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1474601456
Udg. Dato:
3 maj 2018
Størrelse i cm:
13,2 x 19,9 x 2,5
Oplagsdato:
3 maj 2018
Forfatter(e):
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