Daughters of American
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: June 7, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780701173081
Subjects: History
Description: The first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.