To Marry an English Lord

Name: To Marry an English Lord
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gail MacColl
ISBN: 9781494571467

Author: Gail MacColl, Carol McD. Wallace

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/27/2014

Categories: Nonfiction, History, European History

Synopsis

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 photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette—To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.

About Gail MacColl

Gail MacColl is the author of several books, including Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards and The Book of Cards for Kids. Gail lives in England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by La Crosse County Library on January 27, 2022

Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery! Silly me! I married for love! It has worked out for 37 years, so I guess I’m lucky! I didn’t know that in the 1800s and early 1900s it was fashionable to send your daughters who hadn’t attracted a suitable mate in America across the sea! This gossipy......more

Goodreads review by Bronwyn on July 15, 2014

It's only three stars because, while I really enjoyed the majority of the book, the format and constant interruptions to the text took away some of the enjoyment. I also didn't technically read the entire thing since I just skimmed the bios and locations at the end. I want a book like this about the......more

Goodreads review by Suzannah Rowntree on October 19, 2022

It's very impressive how much historical detail is packed into this book, given how easy it was to read - this is partly a factor of the prose, which is witty and conversational, and partly a factor of the layout, which makes plentiful use of illustrations, sidebars and insets: giving the same infor......more