"Gilded Prostitution": Status, Money, and Transatlantic Marriages, 1870-1914.

Abstract

Introduction Part 1: The Expatriate Tradition 1. Transatlantic Travellers: 'Discoverers of a Kind of Hymeneal North-West Passage' Part 2: The American Leisure Class 2. 'Pecuniary Competition' and the Search for Status: New York's High Society 3. 'For Them He Slaves': American Women of the Leisure Class Part 3: Americans in London Society 4. American Invasion or Aristocratic Embrace? The Entry of Americans in London's High Society After 1870 5. The London Marriage Market Part 4: 'Gilded Prostitution': Money and Marriage 6. Title for Money: The Persistence of a Cliche 7. The American Heiress: The Formation of a Stereotype 8. Speculation, Sensation, and Scandal: The American Response to Titled Marriages Part 5: Titled Americans 9. Wives and Mothers: The Domestic Roles of Titled Americans 10. Hostesses, Political Campaigners, and Actresses: Titled Americans and their Public Roles. Conclusion: Stereotypes and Their Function. Appendices: Peers who Married Americans 1870-1914. Younger Songs who Married Americans 1870-1914. Control Groups: Peers who Married 1880-9 and 1900-9. Control Groups: Younger Sons who Married 1880-9 and 1900-9. Probate Calendar Valuations (Peers and their Spouses). Peers who Married Americans 1915-39. Men who Married Americans 1870-1914 and who were Subsequently Raised to the Peerage. Transatlantic Marriages and Family Connections. Case Group: Total Acreage and Gross Annual Rental. Data on Offspring.