In all, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles. Gail MacColl Jarrett is a writer who lives in England. It was the peak year of a social phenomenon that began in the Gilded Age after the Civil War and handed down the legacy of Anglomania, Preppies, the Jet Set, even Winston Churchill and Princess Diana, offspring of such Anglo-American alliances. To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started on . Their stories, triumphant or tragic, are told in ''To Marry an English Lord: Or, How Anglomania Really Got Started,'' by Gail MacColl and Carol McD. To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started. In 1895, nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil) and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the British realmoXamong them, a duke, an earl, three barons and a knight.
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