To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey)
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Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age, the heiresses—including a Vanderbilt (railroads), a LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), and a Rogers (oil)—who staked their ground in England, swapping dollars for titles and marrying peers of the British realm. Filled with vivid personalities, grand houses, dashing earls, and a wealth of period details and quotes on the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette, To Marry an English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. Sex, snobbery, humor, social triumphs (and gaffes), are all recalled in marvelous detail, complete with parties, clothes, scandals, affairs, and 100-year-old gossip that’s still scorching.
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Gail MacColl. (2012). To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey). Workman Publishing Company.
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Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO’s The Gilded Age, the heiresses—including a Vanderbilt (railroads), a LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), and a Rogers (oil)—who staked their ground in England, swapping dollars for titles and marrying peers of the British realm. Filled with vivid personalities, grand houses, dashing earls, and a wealth of period details and quotes on the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette, To Marry an English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. Sex, snobbery, humor, social triumphs (and gaffes), are all recalled in marvelous detail, complete with parties, clothes, scandals, affairs, and 100-year-old gossip that’s still scorching.
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This delightful account of how American heiresses in the post-Civil War era packed up their trunks and went husband-hunting in England demonstrates that our national infatuation with British aristocracy is nothing new. The young women had good looks and big bucks; the often debt-ridden Brits had titles, castles and a society that was ``more stimulating and more permissive, more leisurely and more sophisticated than Old New York.'' MacColl and Wallace (editor of and contributor to, respectively, The Preppy Handbook ) chronicle the lives of the rich and famous on both sides of the ocean, dishing up spicy gossip, pithy social commentary (by 1910, ``Society in America became more sure of itself. Social climbers no longer needed titles for legitimacy'') and obscure historical tidbits (because they were almost never allowed to sit in Queen Victoria's presence, her ladies-in-waiting ``habitually bought shoes a size too big since their feet swelled so badly''). The book also includes witty profiles of leading American ladies and their British lords, piquant period photographs and handy tips on proper etiquette, such as ``Any man who reverses changes the direction in which he's spinning his partner during a waltz is a cad.'' BOMC alternate.
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Large fortunes were made in post-Civil War America. Young heiresses, cold-shouldered by an entrenched aristocracy that scorned new money, looked across the sea to find husbands among titled young Englishmen who were long on status but very short of cash. Nancy Astor and Jennie Churchill are the most famous of more than 100 of these trans-Atlantic brides. This light-hearted bit of social history is lavishly illustrated and bedecked with sidebars and boxes of charts, lively quotes, and other supplementary material. A full register of these enterprising young ladies and a "Walking Tour" are included. Not only fun, but a definitive round-up of the players. Recommended.-- Nancy C. Cridland, Indiana Univ. Libs., BloomingtonCopyright 1989 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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- PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1
THE BUCCANEERS
Old New York
The Cut Direct
At Home on Washington Square
The Mrs. Astor
Rule Britannia
At Home on Berkeley Square
Their Noble Lordships
The London Season
Pushy Mamas
Words for Those on the Outside Wanting In
The Age of Revenge
Wall Street Father No. 1: The Sporting Man
The First Marriages
The Wilson Family Scorecard #1: May & Ogden
The Last Word
CHAPTER 2
THE FAIR INVADERS
A Turn in the Tide
Calling-Card Protocol
The Wilson Family Scorecard #2: Orme & Carrie
The Big Showdowns
Audacity & Innocence
The Genius of Clothes
Wall Street Father No. 2: The Silent Partner
The Top Dollars
The Siege of London
The Flip Side: Queen Victoria's Court
Fifth Avenue Meets the Peerage
The Wilson Family Scorecard #3: Belle & Mungo
Miss Daisy Miller
The Competition
Points in Her Campaign
Poor Peers
Estate Drains
Rating a Mate
Darling Daisy
The Self-Made Girl's Wedding
CHAPTER 3
AMERICAN HEIRESSES: WHAT WILL YOU BID?
He Stoops to Conquer
The Other Astors
The Princess Diana Connection
Duke's Progress: The English Lord's American Journey
The Plutocrat's Daughters
The Louis Fixation
Wall Street Father #3: The Collector
The Match of the Century
Like Father, Like Son
The Newport Schedule
Doing the Continental
Annus Mirabilis
Let's Make a Deal
She Is Now a Duchess
The Heiress's Newport
The Wilson Family Scorecard #4: Grace & Neily
The American Aristocrat's Wedding
The Vanderbilt-Whitney Show
CHAPTER 4
MARRIED HEIRESSES
Happily Ever After
Bringing Home the Bride
A Room with a View
American Wives & English Husbands
Jennie Gets Pinned
The Heir & the Spare
"I Baptize thee Albert Edward"
Chatelaine, or Where the Money Went
Upstairs, Downstairs
A Place for Everyone
Costume Changes
Survival of the Fastest
In the Public Domain
The Glitter & the Gold
Portrait of a Lady: Sitting to Sargent
At Long Last, Love
A Wealth of Love
CHAPTER 5
THE NEW HEIRESSES
Vivant Rex
Thoroughly Modern Jennie
Earning a Title
The Great Durbar
Devonshire House Ball
Entertaining Edward
Taking the Measure
The Crowning Touch
Out of the Past
"I thought everyone must know"
The Last Marriages
Court Curtsey
"Are there any more like you at home?"
Till Death or the Judge Do Us Part: The American Heiress Divorce
Epilogue
"A Hanging Offense"
AN AMERICAN HEIRESS DIRECTORY
Register of American Heiresses
Other Distinguished 19-Century Englishmen with American Wives
Brothers Who Married Heiresses
Cousins Who Married Heiresses
Father-Son Duos
Once Is Not Enough!
The Bridesmaid Connection
Walking Tour of the American Heiresses—London
Bibliography/Selected Reading
Index
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