{"product_id":"the-husband-hunters-american-heiresses-who-married-into-the-british-aristocracy-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANNE DE COURCY is the author of many widely acclaimed works of social history and biography, including 1939: THE LAST SEASON, MARGOT AT WAR, THE FISHING FLEET, THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS and DEBS AT WAR. Her books DIANA MOSLEY and SNOWDON: THE BIOGRAPHY were turned into television documentaries, while THE HUSBAND HUNTERS has been optioned for a feature film. She lives in London and Gloucestershire.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726214172946,"sku":"9781250164605","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a897691c-0b7c-441e-9450-4ba50de084ce.jpg?v=1734858249","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-husband-hunters-american-heiresses-who-married-into-the-british-aristocracy-9781250164605","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}