{"product_id":"husband-hunters-american-heiresses-who-married-into-the-british-aristocracy-1","title":"Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eHusband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnne De Courcy\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781250164605\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSt. Martin's Griffin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e352\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired\u003ci\u003e Downton Abbey.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTowards 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnne 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy | Anne De Courcy | Paperback | 9781250164605 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks H 1748156","offer_id":48856083628184,"sku":"1748156","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81TSVmYtt5L.jpg?v=1775574762","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/husband-hunters-american-heiresses-who-married-into-the-british-aristocracy-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}