{"product_id":"9781250164599","title":"The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the twentieth century – The real women who inspired\u003ci\u003e Downton Abbey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024456532208,"sku":"9781250164599","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781250164599_p0.jpg?v=1763703096","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781250164599","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}