My favourite podcast, The History Chicks, highly recommended this book when they did a series on the Gilded Age heiresses and I'm very glad I tracked down a copy. It is a fascinating book that goes into so many details of this time period and what life was like for the many American women who wed into the British aristocracy.

I was surprised to find it laid out more like a textbook than a traditional non-fiction book, but the approach works quite well. All over the place you get little articles about various things, from fashion to architecture to everything else in between.

This book is a great overview of the period and left me hungry for more, so I will no doubt be checking out more books about the people of this period, to read greater detail about them and their lives.