Title: Daughters of American
First published: June 7, 2007
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.
Subjects: Heiresses, Americans, Biography, History, Americans, great britain, Great britain, history, 19th century, Great britain, social life and customs, Women, biography