To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey)
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    [synopsis] => "Marvelous and entertaining." -Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey

  

 Discover the true stories behind the women who inspired DowntonAbbey and HBO's The Gilded Age, the heiresses-including a Vanderbilt (railroads), a LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), and a Rogers (oil)-who staked their ground in England, swapping dollars for titles and marrying peers of the British realm. Filled with vivid personalities, grand houses, dashing earls, and a wealth of period details and quotes on the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette, To Marry an English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible. Sex, snobbery, humor, social triumphs (and gaffes), are all recalled in marvelous detail, complete with parties, clothes, scandals, affairs, and 100-year-old gossip that's still scorching.

   From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles--just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Gail MacColl Jarrett is a writer who lives in England.  PROLOGUE
	 CHAPTER 1 
	 THE BUCCANEERS 
	 Old New York
	 The Cut Direct
	 At Home on Washington Square
	 The Mrs. Astor
	 Rule Britannia
	 At Home on Berkeley Square
	 Their Noble Lordships
	 The London Season
	 Pushy Mamas
	 Words for Those on the Outside Wanting In
	 The Age of Revenge
	 Wall Street Father No. 1: The Sporting Man
	 The First Marriages
	 The Wilson Family Scorecard #1: May & Ogden
	 The Last Word
	 CHAPTER 2
	 THE FAIR INVADERS
	 A Turn in the Tide
	 Calling-Card Protocol
	 The Wilson Family Scorecard #2: Orme & Carrie
	 The Big Showdowns
	 Audacity & Innocence
	 The Genius of Clothes
	 Wall Street Father No. 2: The Silent Partner
	 The Top Dollars
	 The Siege of London
	 The Flip Side: Queen Victoria's Court
	 Fifth Avenue Meets the Peerage
	 The Wilson Family Scorecard #3: Belle & Mungo
	 Miss Daisy Miller
	 The Competition
	 Points in Her Campaign
	 Poor Peers
	 Estate Drains
	 Rating a Mate
	 Darling Daisy
	 The Self-Made Girl's Wedding
	 CHAPTER 3
	 AMERICAN HEIRESSES: WHAT WILL YOU BID?
	 He Stoops to Conquer
	 The Other Astors
	 The Princess Diana Connection
	 Duke's Progress: The English Lord's American Journey
	 The Plutocrat's Daughters
	 The Louis Fixation 
	 Wall Street Father #3: The Collector
	 The Match of the Century
	 Like Father, Like Son
	 The Newport Schedule
	 Doing the Continental
	 Annus Mirabilis
	 Let's Make a Deal
	 She Is Now a Duchess
	 The Heiress's Newport
	 The Wilson Family Scorecard #4: Grace & Neily
	 The American Aristocrat's Wedding
	 The Vanderbilt-Whitney Show
	 CHAPTER 4
	 MARRIED HEIRESSES
	 Happily Ever After
	 Bringing Home the Bride
	 A Room with a View
	 American Wives & English Husbands
	 Jennie Gets Pinned
	 The Heir & the Spare
	 "I Baptize thee Albert Edward"
	 Chatelaine, or Where the Money Went
	 Upstairs, Downstairs
	 A Place for Everyone
	 Costume Changes
	 Survival of the Fastest
	 In the Public Domain
	 The Glitter & the Gold
	 Portrait of a Lady: Sitting to Sargent
	 At Long Last, Love
	 A Wealth of Love
	 CHAPTER 5
	 THE NEW HEIRESSES
	 Vivant Rex
	 Thoroughly Modern Jennie
	 Earning a Title
	 The Great Durbar
	 Devonshire House Ball
	 Entertaining Edward
	 Taking the Measure
	 The Crowning Touch
	 Out of the Past
	 "I thought everyone must know"
	 The Last Marriages
	 Court Curtsey
	 "Are there any more like you at home?"
	 Till Death or the Judge Do Us Part: The American Heiress Divorce
	 Epilogue
	 "A Hanging Offense"
	 AN AMERICAN HEIRESS DIRECTORY
	 Register of American Heiresses
	 Other Distinguished 19-Century Englishmen with American Wives
	 Brothers Who Married Heiresses
	 Cousins Who Married Heiresses
	 Father-Son Duos
	 Once Is Not Enough!
	 The Bridesmaid Connection
	 Walking Tour of the Amer
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