'Gilded Prostitution'
Status, Money and Transatlantic Marriages, 1870-1914
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 2013
360 pages
978-1-136-21495-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the marriages of British peers to American women within the context of the opening up of London and New York society and the growing competitiveness for high social status. In London, American women were often blamed for the growing hedonism and materialism of smart society and for poaching in the marriage market. They were invariably described as frivolous, vain and calculating - a description which points to the simmering anti-American sentiment in Britain. It was even suggested that titled Americans were having a detrimental effect on the British peerage because of their failure to produce male heirs.
A brilliant analysis of the reasons why American women were viewed pejoratively not only in terms of anti-American feeling and the social transformation of the British upper class, but also the threat of women who did not appear to conform to aristocratic notions of a peeress's duties as a wife and mother.
Originally published in 1989, this book has unique appendices listing details of peer marriages in this 1870-1914 period.
A brilliant analysis of the reasons why American women were viewed pejoratively not only in terms of anti-American feeling and the social transformation of the British upper class, but also the threat of women who did not appear to conform to aristocratic notions of a peeress's duties as a wife and mother.
Originally published in 1989, this book has unique appendices listing details of peer marriages in this 1870-1914 period.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
6,77 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-21495-0 (9781136214950)
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Maureen E. Montgomery
Content
Part 1 'Gilded Prostitution', Maureen E. Montgomery; Introduction, Maureen E. Montgomery; Part 2 The Expatriate Tradition, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 1 Transatlantic travellers: 'discoverers of a kind of hymeneal North-West Passage', Maureen E. Montgomery; Part 3 The American Leisure Class, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 102 Introduction to Part Two, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 2 'Pecuniary competition' and the search for status: New York's high society, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 3 'For them he slaves': American women of the leisure class, Maureen E. Montgomery; Part 4 Americans in London Society, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 103 Introduction to Part Three, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 4 American invasion or aristocratic embrace?, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 5 The London marriage market, Maureen E. Montgomery; Part 5 'Gilded Prostitution': Money and Marriage, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 104 Introduction to Part Four, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 6 Title for money: the persistence of a cliche, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 7 The American heiress: the formation of a stereotype, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 8 Speculation, sensation, and scandal: the American response to titled marriages, Maureen E. Montgomery; Part 6 Titled Americans, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 9 Wives and mothers: the domestic roles of titled Americans, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 10 Hostesses, political campaigners, and actresses: titled Americans and their public roles, Maureen E. Montgomery; Chapter 105 Conclusion: stereotypes and their function, Maureen E. Montgomery Peers who married Americans 1870-1914, Maureen E. Montgomery Younger sons who married Americans 1870-1914, Maureen E. Montgomery Control groups: peers who married 1880-9 and 1900-9, Maureen E. Montgomery Control Groups: younger sons who married 1880-9 and 1900-9, Maureen E. Montgomery Probate calendar valuations (peers and their spouses), Maureen E. Montgomery Peers who married Americans 1915-39, Maureen E. Montgomery Men who married Americans 1870-1914 and who were subsequendy raised to the peerage, Maureen E. Montgomery Transatlantic marriages and family connections, Maureen E. Montgomeryc109_fn1 Case group: total acreage and gross annual rental, Maureen E. Montgomery Data on offspring, Maureen E. Montgomery;
