From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles-just like Cora Crawley, Countess of Grantham, the first of the Downton Abbey characters Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading To Marry An English Lord. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details-plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette-To Marry An English Lord is social history at its liveliest and most accessible.

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An introduction to the joy of card games includes instructions for Baby Snap, Go Fish, Concentration, Blackjack, Chase the Ace, Smudge, Frogs in the Pond, and a host of other games and a deck of cards. Original.

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

Quotations from Ronald Reagan on a variety of issues are accompanied by brief analyses of the accuracy of his statements