Английская Википедия:American dollar princess
The so-called American dollar princesses were wealthy American women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who married into titled European families, exchanging wealth for prestige.
According to a book called Titled Americans (1915), there were 454 marriages between Gilded Age and Progressive Era American women and European aristocrats.[1] The Library of Congress claimed in a reference guide that "American heiresses married more than a third of the House of Lords."[1] The Spectator claims that among the marriages were 102 "British aristocrats", including "six dukes."[2]
Women called dollar princesses
- Jennie Jerome married Lord Randolph Churchill in 1874.[3][1]
- Mary ‘Minnie’ Stevens, daughter of Paran Stevens, married General Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget in 1878.[1]
- Nancy Langhorne married Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor in 1879.[1]
- Frances Ellen Work married James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy in 1880.[4]
- Mary Leiter Curzon, a Marshall Field's heiress, married Lord Curzon in 1895 and became Vicereine of India, making her the highest-ranking American-born woman in the history of the British Empire.[5][1]
- Consuelo Vanderbilt married Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough in 1895.[6]
- Mary ‘May’ Goelet married Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe in 1903.[1]
- Margaretta Drexel, daughter of Anthony Joseph Drexel, married Guy Finch-Hatton, 14th Earl of Winchilsea in 1910.[1]
- In the early 1920s, Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark, a wealthy widow born Nonie May Stewart in Ohio, who had married the brother of the King of the Hellenes, was described as battling the American dollar princess stereotype.[7][8]
- A 1928 news report suggested that an unnamed American dollar princess might be last in the running to wed Boris III of Bulgaria.[9]
In fiction
The phrase seems to appear frequently as a trope of fiction, such as in Georgina Norway's Tregarthen (1896):[10]
A 1920 book review described a new novel as "plot simplicity itself, being concerned essentially with the struggle of two wealthy girls, a vulgar American 'Dollar Princess' and a charming Lancashire lass, for the love of a young farmer baronet who cleaves, like his forefathers, to the old religion."[11]
A 2023 Library Journal review of a title in the "Gilded Age Heiresses" romance-novel series describes a plot scenario wherein "American 'Dollar Princess' Camille, now the Dowager Duchess of Hereford after her horrible husband's death, decides to ask Jacob Thorne, co-owner of an infamous club and the illegitimate son of an earl, for help discovering if she can find pleasure with a man."[12] The Buccaneers, a 1938 novel by Edith Wharton, is set in this milieu.[5]
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Further reading
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- ↑ Review: The Duchess Takes a Husband. By: Kobiela-Mondor, Jenny. Library Journal. Mar2023, Vol. 148 Issue 3, p132-132. 1/6p. ,
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