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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"A deliciously told group biography of the young, rich, American heiresses who married into the impoverished British gentry at the turn of the twentieth century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself...
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