{"product_id":"the-husband-hunters-anne-de-courcy-9781250164605","title":"The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\u003ci\u003e Downton Abbey.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTowards 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne De Courcy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250164605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250164605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Anne De Courcy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049558438143,"sku":"9781250164605","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_03c5ff8f-c86d-44e7-a3de-02a32c759be0.jpg?v=1685002200","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-husband-hunters-anne-de-courcy-9781250164605","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}