The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy

by Anne de Courcy

Book Overview

A delicious group biography of the young American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250164605
• ISBN13: 9781250164605
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Same Book Different Cover

I bought the same book twice they had different covers and while same title one book said Social Climbing in London and New York while the other book said American Heiresses Who Married Into The British Aristocracy. Dont be fooled.