It was done to unite lands, add money to the coffers and provide heirs for the estate. Among the English aristocracy, was more a strategic thing. In America, the notion of romantic marriage was of very current value in the late 1800s. Was that the only reason British nobles married them? Like Lady Cora, many of these real-life heiresses helped save ancient titles and estates with their bottomless pots of nouveau American money. The big historical pattern explored is legitimate, and we are wildly interested in the cut of dresses! There's a lot of solid underpinning - we did read these enormous tomes about the English agricultural depression of the 1870s and Parliamentary law and Edward VII. A friend of mine made a point, which I quite liked, that it's basically serious history packaged as froth.
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