To Marry an English Lord

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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. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details--plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette--To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.;Cover; CONTENTS; 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.