To Marry an English Lord
Title | To Marry an English Lord PDF eBook |
Author | Gail MacColl |
Publisher | Workman Publishing Company |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0761171983 |
“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.
To Marry a British Lord
Title | To Marry a British Lord PDF eBook |
Author | Judith O'Brien |
Publisher | |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780671000394 |
Catching the eye of the Prince of Wales, American Constance Lloyd becomes a social sensation and finds herself proposed to by the son of the Duke of Hastings. But when she meets her intended's best friend, Joseph Smith, an all-too-handsome, self-made man, Constance begins to dream of a forbidden and unexpected love--with the one true prince in Britain's glittering palaces.
Marriage in the Lord, Seventh Edition
Title | Marriage in the Lord, Seventh Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Leisa Anslinger |
Publisher | Liturgy Training Publications |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1616715766 |
A liturgically-based pastoral and practical resource for couples preparing for marriage. It will help them discuss important issues related to communication, finances, reconciliation, sex, spirituality and prayer, and discipleship. It will help ground a couples formation through the lens of the Marriage rite and provide tools for discussion.
To Marry an English Lord
Title | To Marry an English Lord PDF eBook |
Author | Gail MacColl |
Publisher | Workman Publishing |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0894809393 |
Tells the stories of wealthy nineteenth-century American heiresses who married British nobelman
The Husband Hunters
Title | The Husband Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Anne de Courcy |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2018-08-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250164613 |
A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British aristocracy at the turn of the twentieth century – the real women who inspired Downton Abbey 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 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. Anne 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.
To Marry the Duke
Title | To Marry the Duke PDF eBook |
Author | Julianne MacLean |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061754250 |
My dear sister Clara, London society is so much more complicated than I could ever have known! Every night is a different ball or assembly, and a different swirl of glittering jewels and rustling gowns. Though I fear I am making social blunders left and right I am having some measure of success in my (or rather, Mother's) objective. Mother is beside herself with glee at the attentions I have been receiving from a few gentlemen she finds supremely suitable as husband material. But my dearest sister, it is so hard for me to even look at any gentleman but a certain duke, who, if I may confess, makes my heart beat so that I fear it can be seen across a ballroom. He is James Langdon, the Duke of Wentworth, and though I may sound dramatic, he makes me feel as no man ever has before. But I must push these feelings away. I sometimes hear whispers about his dark past, and he is quietly called the Dangerous Duke. Oh Clara! I am secretly overjoyed that he may love me, and at the same time terrified of his attentions. I have waited so long for my true love, and now I must resist him to protect my heart. If only I knew how to proceed… Your devoted sister, Sophia
All Dressed in White
Title | All Dressed in White PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Wallace |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
"Everybody loves a wedding, and in All Dressed in White, Carol McD. Wallace celebrates the delicious history and the eternal allure of our favorite rite of passage. In the past 150 years the wedding has gone from discreet private ceremony to elaborate public event, yet the fundamentals remain the same - weddings are the only social events in America where matters of money, sex, and class are brought to the fore. The growth of the middle class and the development of the popular media play a role in Wallace's tale, as does the eternal vision of The White Dress in its metamorphosis from gown to costume."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved