My last duchess
By: by Daisy Goodwin
Series: Magna large print
Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780750534246
Subjects: Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Americans; Aristocracy (Social class); Fiction
Description: Gorgeous, spirited and extravagantly rich, Cora Cash is the closest thing 1890s New York society has to a princess. Her masquerade ball is the prelude to a campaign that will see her mother whisk Cora to Europe, where Mrs Cash wants nothing less than a title for her daughter. In England, impoverished blue-bloods are queueing up for introductions to American heiresses, overlooking the sometimes lowly origins of their fortunes. Cora makes a dazzling impression, but the English aristocracy is a realm fraught with arcane rules and pitfalls, and there are those less than eager to welcome a wealthy outsider ...
Notes: Standard print ed. originally published: London : Headline Review, 2010.