ISBN:
9780415632522
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (359 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
Parallel Title:
Print version Gilded Prostitution'
DDC:
306.8/45
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: THE EXPATRIATE TRADITION; 1 Transatlantic travellers: 'discoverers of a kind of hymeneal North-West Passage'; PART TWO: THE AMERICAN LEISURE CLASS; Introduction to Part Two; 2 'Pecuniary competition' and the search for status:New York's high society; 3 'For them he slaves': American women of the leisure class; PART THREE: AMERICANS IN LONDON SOCIETY; Introduction to Part Three; 4 American invasion or aristocratic embrace? The entry ofAmericans into London's high society after 1870
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The London marriage marketPART FOUR: 'GILDED PROSTITUTION':MONEY AND MARRIAGE; Introduction to Part Four; 6 Title for money: the persistence of a cliche; 7 The American heiress: the formation of a stereotype; 8 Speculation, sensation, and scandal: the Americanresponse to titled marriages; PART FIVE: TITLED AMERICANS; 9 Wives and mothers: the domestic roles of titled Americans; 10 Hostesses, political campaigners, and actresses: titledAmericans and their public roles; CONCLUSION: STEREOTYPES ANDTHEIR FUNCTION; APPENDICES; A Peers who married Americans 1870-1914
Description / Table of Contents:
B Younger sons who married Americans 1870-1914C Control Groups: Peers who married 1880-9 and 1900-9; D Control groups: younger sons who married 1880-9and 1900-9; E Probate calendar valuations (Peers and their spouses); F Peers who married Americans 1915-39; G Men who married Americans 1870-1914 and who weresubsequently raised to the peerage; H Transatlantic marriages and family connections; I Case Group: total acreage and gross annual rental; J Data on offspring; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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