![]() To Marry an English Lord is the only book to tell how they did it." - Publisher. Over 100 heiresses swapped dollars for titles. Astor, Edith Wharton, King Edward VII, and the Marlborough House Set. A rich tapestry of essays, sidebars, fact-filled boxes, and lively anecdotesoXcombined with wealth of portraits, drawings, photographs, and other rare Victoriana - it chronicles the era of Mrs. Filled with tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery - and 100-year-old gossip that's still scorching - To Marry an English Lord is a heavily illustrated and energetically presented popular history. Originally published in 1989, To Marry an English Lord was reprinted in 2012clearly to take advantage of the Downton Abbey phenomenon. ![]() It was the peak year of a social phenomenon that began when the entrenched members of old New York snubbed these 'new money' families after the Civil War, sending them off to England in quest of class and bequeathing to us Anglomania, Preppy, the Jet Set, and even Princess Di. ![]() ![]() "In 1895, nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil) and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British new money, among them, a duke, an earl, three barons and a knight. ![]()
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