![]() 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.įrom 1874 – the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known ‘Dollar Princess”, married Randolph Churchill – to 1914, a hundred young American heiresses married into the British aristocracy, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age. ![]() ![]() The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. It will be published in America in the late spring of 2018. ![]() ![]() The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New YorkĪnne has just brought out her next book, The Husband-Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York, which is published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ![]()
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