Name: To Marry an English Lord
Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)

Gail MacColl

Carol Wallace

BOOK THAT INSPIRED DOWNTON ABBEY Here is the American Heiress's story. Filled with tales of wealth and marriage, sex and snobbery - and 100-year-old gossip that's still scorching - To Marry an English Lord is heavily illustrated and an energetic presentation of popular history

The Victorian and Edwardian Experience

To Marry an English Lord

Carol McD. Wallace

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

Or How Anglomania Really Got Started

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 The Victorian and Edwardian Experience

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