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'Gilded Prostitution' - Status, Money and Transatlantic Marriages, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
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'Gilded Prostitution' - Status, Money and Transatlantic Marriages, 1870-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
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This book examines the marriages of British peers to American women
within the context of the opening up of London and New York society
and the growing competitiveness for high social status. In London,
American women were often blamed for the growing hedonism and
materialism of smart society and for poaching in the marriage
market. They were invariably described as frivolous, vain and
calculating - a description which points to the simmering
anti-American sentiment in Britain. It was even suggested that
titled Americans were having a detrimental effect on the British
peerage because of their failure to produce male heirs. A brilliant
analysis of the reasons why American women were viewed pejoratively
not only in terms of anti-American feeling and the social
transformation of the British upper class, but also the threat of
women who did not appear to conform to aristocratic notions of a
peeress's duties as a wife and mother. Originally published in
1989, this book has unique appendices listing details of peer
marriages in this 1870-1914 period.
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