02532cam a2200397 4500 319713824 TxAuBib 20170906120000.0 881205m19892012||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 85040529 9780894809392 0894809393 9780761171959 0761171959 (OCoLC)779399305 TxAuBib MacColl, Gail, 1954- To marry an English Lord / by Gail MacColl and Carol McD. Wallace. New York : Workman Pub., 1989-2012. x, 403 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. One photograph inserted. "Tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery"--Cover. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 367-370. The buccaneers. Old New York ; Rule Britannia ; Pushy mamas ; The first marriages -- The fair invaders. A turn in the tide ; Audacity & innocence ; The siege of London ; The competition ; Poor peers ; The self-made girl's wedding -- American heiresses : what will you bid? He stoops to conquer ; The plutocrats' daughters ; The match of the century ; She is now a duchess ; The American aristocrat's wedding -- Married heiresses. Happily ever after ; American wives & English husbands ; The heir & the spare ; Ch©Øtelaine, or, Where the money went ; Survival of the fastest ; At long last, love -- The new heiresses. Vivat rex ; Entertaining Edward ; The last marriages ; Till death or the judge do us part : the American heiress divorce ; Epilogue -- An American heiress directory. Register of American heiresses ; Walking tour of the American heiresses' London. Read about a unique set of American women cutting a swath through stodgy 19th century British aristocracy. The book covers not just who they were but the lows and the triumphs of their inter-continental marriages. Also included are many fascinating details on how they dressed and what they had to go through. 20170906. Upper class New York (State) New York History 19th century. Nobility England History 19th century. Marriage England History 19th century. New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs. England Social life and customs 19th century. United States Social life and customs 1865-1918. Wallace, Carol, 1948- TXLIV