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The husband hunters, American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy, Anne de Courcy

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The husband hunters

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Anne de Courcy

American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy

"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 for so long was breached. 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. From 1874 -- the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known "dollar princess," married Lord 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."--, Provided by publisher

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