Million Dollar Duchesses - How America''s Heiresses Seduced the Aristocracy

Informationen zum Autor Julie Ferry is a freelance journalist and has written for The Guardian, Independent, Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph. She lives with her husband and two children in Bristol.  Klappentext A single year in the life of the unofficial marriage brokers to the aristocracy, Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, as they initiate and manipulate a series of spectacular transatlantic pairings. As well as injecting millions of dollars into the ailing aristocracy; fame, money, power and prestige were all at play. Zusammenfassung A single year in the life of the unofficial marriage brokers to the aristocracy, Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Dowager Duchess of Manchester, as they initiate and manipulate a series of spectacular transatlantic pairings. As well as injecting millions of dollars into the ailing aristocracy; fame, money, power and prestige were all at play.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Ferry, Ferry Julie
• Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781781317877
• ISBN: 978-1-78131-787-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA