To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery (Audiobook)

from Auntie-Nanuuq

At first I was impressed w/ the glitter & lifestyles, but then I read about how awful country life could be; MacColl doesn't really go into to the relationships of the rich imported heiress & their new staid English servants, but it could not have been easy nor would it have been easy getting alo...

from 2wonderY

Gives a good taste of the times in the upper reaches of society, but it's too much of a good thing. The repetition becomes cloying and it all jumbles together. The format, with info boxes and sidebars was distracting. Longer, leisurely chapters without the clutter might have been more appealing. ...

from bensdad00

A narrowly focused history book reviewing the circumstances under which dozens of rich American girls married into English nobility in the late Victorian era. Informative for the amateur historian, entertaining for the novice anglophile, but infuriating for all readers due to an extremely poor, c...

from JenniferRobb

An interesting window into a time when New York Society ruled the U.S. and those who were shut out of it chose to go across the ocean to England to find titled husbands. This was helped by the fact that the U.S. allowed daughters to inherit while English law permitted only male inheritance. There...

from Cariola

The best thing about this book is the many photographs included; too bad it wasn't just designed as a coffee table book. I was fairly engaged by the early chapters, which detailed the first wave of American heiresses going abroad (mainly to England) in search of titled husbands. But once I got pa...