My Twitter feed was filled to the brim with ads for the Smithsonian Channel’s Million Dollar American Princesses in the weeks leading up to the premiere of Downton Abbey‘s fifth season. The American heiress in 19th and 20th century Europe is a topic that never grows old for me, and I was aggravated that I …
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr
Due for release September 10th 2013 ‘Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the spending of a great American fortune,’ is a book about a house, the man who built it and the fate of his only surviving daughter, Huguette Clark, after his death. I would have read this book if it was …
Titled Americans, the 1890s Guide to Snagging an Aristocrat
The American Heiress is one of my favorite topics to cover when speaking about the Edwardian Era–and an American heiress is the heroine of my latest book!–so I was ecstatic when I finally tracked down a copy of the almost mythical quarterly periodical, Titled Americans. In this slim book is a list of all American …