The husband hunters: social climbing in London and New York
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...
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Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
Beschreibung: | x, 307 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9781474601436 9781474601443 |
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adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction i
x. Where They Came From x 3
2. The ‘Buccaneers’ 2.8
3. Jennie 4 6
4. The First Duke Captured 59
5. Living in the Country 73
6. Mrs Paran Stevens 87
7. Alva 105
8. Newport 1x9
9. The‘Marrying Wilsons’ 139
10. The Call of Europe 155
ix. Virginia 165
12. Maud 184
13. Royal Connections 197
14. The Bradley-Martins 2.14
15. Fitting In — or Not 2.2,7
16. Tennie Claflin: The Odd One Out 241
17. The River of Gold 258
18. It Was All Too Much 271
Epilogue 280
Acknowledgements 284
Bibliography 286
Index 292
Towards the end of the nineteenth
century and for the first 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 1914, a hundred
young American heiresses married into
the British aristocracy, bringing with
them all the fabulous wealth, glamour
and sophistication of the Gilded Age.
But why did so many of them troop across
the Atlantic when there were plenty of
good-looking and much wealthier young
men in America?
Anne de Courcy sets the motives and
attitudes of these young women and their
families in the social context of their
times, revealing that the real story behind
husband—hunting in Europe was much
more than simply a case of cash for titles.
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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