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 detail ...
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 detail - 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.
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Menus also had to be invented for the duration of the party, whether it was Saturday-to-Monday (never "the weekend," which implied one had to be back at "a job of work") or a full week. (查看原文)
0 有用 马曳 2017-08-25 13:32:13
前段时间看完唐顿庄园后看的。关于远嫁到英国去的美国女继承人这个话题，似乎一直没有什么好书。这本书提供了一些有趣的背景资料，但是写得有点东一榔头西一棒，正文中间不断穿插一页半页其他内容也很影响阅读体验。
0 有用 Sylvie-Lu 2018-12-12 23:04:53
如果对唐顿庄园里夫人的角色背景感兴趣的话，这本书值得一看。讲19世纪末至20世纪初英美之间的跨大西洋婚姻贸易，列举了非常多的人物，图很多，但是排版有问题，稍微影响阅读。可以配合纪录片百万美元公主一起食用。
0 有用 迷之女主角X 2023-07-11 07:45:54 英国
很容易读，有不少贵族生活的细节和打理庄园等，读的挺开心的。
0 有用 Woodchuckle 2020-12-11 12:44:06
十九世纪最后三十年到二十世纪头十年, 许多美国新贵的女儿纷纷嫁入英国的贵族世家. 这本书就是她们的故事. 内容简单轻松, 篇幅也不常, 当作茶余饭后的八卦读物甚好.