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MacColl, Gail and Carol McD. Wallace, - To Marry an English Lord: tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery.

NY, Workman, 3rd ptg. VG lg sz PB. American heiresses take on the peerage. In late 1805 nine American girls married peers of the British realm, a duke, an. earl, three barons and a knight, social phenomenon that began in the Gilded Age after the American Civil War and handed down the legacy of Anglomania, preppies, and the world of the television series, Downton Abbey. In All, more than 100 American heriesses invaded Britain and swapped dollars for titles. Filled with a wealth of historical personalities, grand houses, gossipy anecdotes, and the very finest points of etiquette that ruled Victorian and Edwardian society, this is their story.
USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 | £UK 9.25 | JP¥ 1742] Book number BOOKS053085I

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