A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich. 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. The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy. Anne De Courcy The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy Audio CD Unabridged, Augby Anne de Courcy (Author), Clare Corbett (Reader) 925 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.

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.Īnne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. : The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy (9781250164599) by De Courcy, Anne and a great selection of. De Courcy takes seriously the lives of the women she writes about, who surprisingly include the brave. 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. The Husband Hunters is a forthrightly feminist history. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. Based on extensive firsthand research, drawing on diaries. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. Anne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times.

A sparkling social history of the 'Dollar Princesses', the young American heiresses who married into the English aristocracy.

The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy