This is a sparkling and richly entertaining account of an intriguing and unusual culture clash - Kathryn Hughes * THE MAIL ON SUNDAY * I can't wait to read it again - Miranda Seymour * THE DAILY TELEGRAPH * Lively, shrewd and fresh as a gilded rose, de Courcy's book is her best yet. the extravagant ostentation that de Courcy serves up in her delectably gossip-filled book is of the sort that modern-day oligarchs still revere. Publisher: Orion Publishing Co ISBN: 9781474601436 Number of pages: 320 Weight: 590 g Dimensions: 234 x 160 x 30 mm MEDIA REVIEWSĪn acidly funny account of the unholy alliance between eye-wateringly rich and socially ambitious American women and a clutch of impoverished British peers. De Courcy is excellent on the cultural clashes between the Americans and British.’ - Paula Byrne, The Times Englishmen found the dollar princesses irresistible and were drawn to their vitality, social ease and lack of stuffiness.

de Courcy argues with conviction that it wasn't simply about money. ‘Anne de Courcy has written the definitive account of the real-life buccaneers. 'Lively, shrewd and fresh.' - Daily Telegraph Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise.įrom 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known 'Dollar Princess', married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour and sophistication of the Gilded Age.Īnne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain.

The husband hunters by anne de courcy