To Marry An English Lord: Victorian And Edwardian Experience Tapa dura - 1989

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 20/11/1989 00:00:01. hardcover. Very Good. 2.7919 in x 22.5888 in x 15.2284 in.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1998 Copy in illustrated card wraps. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with b/w plates.

London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Ed... This delightful account of how American heiresses in the post-Civil War era packed up their trunks and went husband-hunting in England demonstrates that our national infatuation with British aristocracy is nothing new. The young women had good looks and big bucks; the often debt-ridden Brits had titles, castles and a society that was "more stimulating and more permissive, more leisurely and more sophisticated than Old New York." MacColl and Wallace (editor of and contributor to, respectively, The Preppy Handbook ) chronicle the lives of the rich and famous on both sides of the ocean, dishing up spicy gossip, pithy social commentary (by 1910, "Society in America became more sure of itself. Social climbers no longer needed titles for legitimacy") and obscure historical tidbits (because they were almost never allowed to sit in Queen Victoria's presence, her ladies-in-waiting "habitually bought shoes a… Leer más

Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1989-11-20. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. Book is in good condition. All pages are intact and unmarked. Previous owner's name is written on the inside of the front cover.

Pan Macmillan, 1989-11-20. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!