The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy by Anne De Courcy: A Book Review
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy Author: Anne De Courcy Genre: History, Nonfiction, Biography Publisher: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: August 7, 2018 Pages: 310 Source: Publisher/Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: 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 firs...