
To Marry an English Lord
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Kate Reading
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 quotes and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette - To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.
©1989, 2012 Gail MacColl & Carol McD. Wallace (P)2014 TantorListeners also enjoyed...


















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better than expected
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fascinating
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Loved it
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Perhaps its true, money does not equal happiness
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Downton Abbey script idea
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Of Course it’s non-fiction
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An interesting take
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Namely it is a key to book "No More Champagne".
Also it reveals mating rituals of Britain upper crust. So much I needed to know.
Now I will reed "Pride and Prejudice" again, this time with little more inside.
Love wit and intelligence of narrator Kate Reading and her ability to shear the love of era.
PL
Eye opening book.
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The American girl was spontaneous, fun, outgoing... Basically the soul of the party and the British, excluding those residing in London, lived in very bucolic areas, which came out as a surprise for those girls, who'd only discover so after the wedding.
The contrast between the American and the British society plus the disappointment of the heiresses motivated some of the societal changes that shaped our culture as we know.
The only thing I dislike about the book is how the information was structured; it could have been way more pleasant if it was disposed in a more organized fashion. Sometimes you can't really see a connection between the first and the last section and until the author puts these pieces together, you try to absorb as much as you can but fail to identify what's really important. Only on a second look it is possible to realize "oh, the book is going to focus a lot on that, that and that person. Let me pay attention so I'll remember the details and be able to picture the story". It's not going to prevent you from enjoying the book, but the book could have been much more enjoyable.
It was a very pleasant surprise
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interesting but scattered
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