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Nonfiction concerning the most unrelatable of subjects: heiresses.
Updated October 2, 2022
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Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
Bill Dedman
Paper Book
In the tradition of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, an extraordinary Dickensian story of wealth and eccentricity.
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The Glitter and the Gold
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
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This is the real-life story of the Vanderbilt heiress who married the Duke of Marlborough in 1895. It gives a fascinating insight into upstairs-downstairs life and the highest circles of Edwardian aristocracy.
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Poor Little Rich Girl
C. David Heymann
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Why Not Say What Happened?
Ivana Lowell
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Beautiful, intelligent and wealthy, Ivana Lowell seemed to have it all. Part of the Guinness dynasty, her family were glamorous and well-connected. Her charismatic but spoilt grandmother Maureen had made an excellent marriage with the Lord of Dufferin and Avon and was a leader of the fashionable set...
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The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
Anne De Courcy
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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 for so long was breached. The incomers were a group...
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Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
Laura Thompson
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Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous... Heiresses makes for an entertaining, occasionally sad...
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A Well-Behaved Woman
Therese Anne Fowler
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A glittering depiction of a woman ahead of her time who absolutely refused to be second best' Red Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, marries into one of America's...
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The Million Dollar Duchesses: How America's Heiresses Seduced the Aristocracy
Julie Ferry
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Brimful of scandal, illicit affairs, spurned loves and unexpected tragedy, The Million Dollar Duchesses reveals the closed-door bargaining which led to these most influential matches and how America's heiresses shook-up British high society for ever.
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