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To marry an English Lord, [tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery]

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To marry an English Lord

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[tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery]

"Marvelous and entertaining." -Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey 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. From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles--just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Gail MacColl Jarrett is a writer who lives in England. 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 Fat..

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