Research Catalog

Title

The husband hunters : social climbing in London and New York / Anne de Courcy.

Author

De Courcy, Anne

Publication

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017.

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Details

Description

x, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Mate selection > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Mate selection > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Intercountry marriage > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Intercountry marriage > Great Britain > History > 20th century
• Americans > Great Britain > Biography
• Heiresses > United States > Biography
• Americans > Great Britain > History > 19th century
• Americans > Great Britain > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-291) and index.

Contents

Where They Came From -- The 'Buccaneers' -- Jennie -- The First Duke Captured -- Living in the Country -- Mrs Paran Stevens -- Alva -- Newport -- The 'Marrying Wilsons' -- The Call of Europe -- Virginia -- Maud -- Royal Connections -- The Bradley-Martins -- Fitting In -- or Not -- Tennie Claflin: The Odd One Out -- The River of Gold -- It Was All Too Much.

Call Number

JFE 17-8029

ISBN

• 9781474601443
• 1474601448
• 9781474601436
• 147460143X

OCLC

988612151

Author

De Courcy, Anne, author.

Title

The husband hunters : social climbing in London and New York / Anne de Courcy.

Publisher

London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-291) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-8029