Carol McD. Wallace

Gail MacColl

Tells the stories of wealthy nineteenth-century American heiresses who married British nobelman

Or How Anglomania Really Got Started

To Marry an English Lord

Jeni Enjaian

This book isn't even worth the title of "book." I knew from the first look of the cover that this book would not be what I had expected from the title. The authors must have absolutely no historiographical training. The book is thrown together in a roughly chronological format. That is the only positive thing I can say about the book. The formatting is horrible. There are massive pictures on almost every page. If there's not a picture there's a bit of random information stuck on the page in the form of a box discussing a topic that the authors clearly could not get to fit into their "narrative." The authors survey far too many people and very rarely circle back to conclude their story. I could go on about a number of other things that these authors get horribly wrong but it just isn't worth the time. It took me barely an hour and a half to read this book, an hour and a half that I almost wish that I could have back.
I strongly recommend that everyone stay far, far away from this book. It's horrible.

To Marry an English Lord Or How Anglomania Really Got Started