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The American Heiress

by Daisy Goodwin

St. Martin's. 2011. 480p. ISBN 9780312658656. $25.99.

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Cora Cash's story is a familiar Gilded Age tale—an American heiress with a grasping mother intent on marrying her daughter into the British aristocracy. The nobles were all too willing to take on these American wives, whose money could salvage their rundown estates. (LJ 4/1/11)

Reviewed by Nanette Donohue , Dec 01, 2014

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