HUSBAND HUNTERS DE COURCY ANNEPevná vazba
HUSBAND HUNTERS DE COURCY ANNEPevná vazba A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth…
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HUSBAND HUNTERS DE COURCY ANNEPevná vazba
A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton AbbeyTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. 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. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached.
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