Special Presentation by Carol Wallace: To Marry an English Lord

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Carol Wallace

Co-author of the highly acclaimed book
To Marry an English Lord
The Inspiration for Julian Fellowes'
Downton Abbey

Thursday, January 8, 2015
SOLD OUT
The English-Speaking Union
144 East 39^th Street, New York City

When Julian Fellowes was approached to create the now world-acclaimed TV series Downton Abbey, he was reading Gail MacColl and Carol Wallace's book, which he called "a marvelous and entertaining study of the American girls who came over to England, mostly between 1890 and 1914, to marry into the British aristocracy." To Marry an English Lord, which was first published in 1989 and has been reissued for Downton Abbey fans, explores both the glamour and the misfortune that greeted some 100+ newly-minted American heiresses who,  having been snubbed by the Social Register, invaded Great Britain to swap dollars for titles.

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