![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Gail MacColl Jarrett is a writer who lives in England. ![]() Ñh Complete with: the Parties, the Clothes, the Scandals, the Love Affairs, and 100-Year-Old Gossip Thato_s Still Scorching Ñh The Marriage Contract, Keeping House in a Castle, Doing Your Wifely Duty: The Heir & the Spare Ñh Edward, The Prince of Wales Who Loved Rich American Girls ![]() This book specifically follows the migration of rich American girls to England and, subsequently, to marrying a member of the English peerage. Ñh Pushy Mamas, Wall Street Fathers & The Quest for Class 'To Marry An English Lord' may sound like a how-to guide, but it is really one of the most fascinating history books on the English Peerage ever written. Tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery, featuring: In all, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles. It was the peak year of a social phenomenon that began in the Gilded Age after the Civil War and handed down the legacy of Anglomania, Preppies, the Jet Set, even Winston Churchill and Princess Diana, offspring of such Anglo-American alliances. ![]() In 1895, nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil) and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British realmoXamong them, a duke, an earl, three barons and a knight. ![]()
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