#78 Gilt-y Pleasures: Dollar Princesses and Husband Hunters
Books we mention/recommend:
- The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy
- The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
- The Gilded Age by Mark Twain
- The Luxe series by Anna Godberson
- The Gilded Age Heiresses by Harper St. George
- The Four Hundred series by Joanna Schupe
- Uptown Girls series by Schupe
- Fifth Avenue Rebels by Schupe
- Bareknuckle Bastards by Sarah MacLean
References:
- Possibly source of the Spanish Influenza- Fort Riley in Kansas
- "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
- American dollar princess (wikipedia, n.d.)
- “Amy Henderson: “Downton Abbey” and the Dollar Princesses” (Henderson, 2012)
- “How American ‘Dollar Princesses’ Invaded British High Society” (Blakemore, 2023)
- “Why Did the Gilded Age End?” (Rotondi, 2022)
- “Gilded Age” (History.com, 2023)
- Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker" (wikipedia, n.d.)
- "Our Notable Knicks" (The Knickerbocker Historical Society)
- The Fabulous Leonard Jerome: Churchill's "Fierce" American Roots (Taylor, 2017)
- “The American Duchesses: A Tale of Two Consuelos” (American Duchess, 2017)
- “Inside Alva Vanderbilt's Party Of The Century” (Grimm, 2022)
- “The ‘Dollar Princess’ and the Duke” (Christies.com, 2016)
- “The Lost Wm. K. Vanderbilt Mansion -- 660 5th Avenue” (Miller, 2014)
- “Vanderbilt Ball” (Broyles, 2013)
- “The Vanderbilts: How American Royalty Lost Their Crown Jewels” (Robehmed, 2014)
- “A who’s who of the Gilded Age, ahead of the Met Gala” (Cope, 2022)
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