From the archives: a review of The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin. It’s a light, entertaining historical fiction about a period of thirty years in the late 1800s during which billionaire American families sought the prestige of English and other European aristocracy by matching up their daughters with cash-poor dukes and princes, whose castles and estates were very much in need of American money.
The American Heiress
by
Daisy Goodwin
Rating:
I really enjoyed reading The American Heiress. It’s light, entertaining historical fiction about a period of thirty years in the late 1800s during which billionaire American families sought the prestige of English and other European aristocracy by matching up their daughters with cash-poor dukes and princes, whose castles and estates were very much in need of American money.
Cora Cash has a domineering mother who is bent on marrying her daughter to English nobility. Cora is, of course, beautiful and well-educated and it doesn’t take long for her to meet Ivo Maltravers – the Ninth Duke of Wareham.
He’s older, she’s still in her teens and their playful banter reminds me of the conversations between Rhett and Scarlett, Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre and Maxim de Winter and Rebecca. It’s been done before, but I never get tired of it. Jojo Moyes…
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Daisy Goodwin is incredible. Love this! X
I really like the premise of this one. Very original.
I agree – it was a part of history I didn’t know much about – and even though it wasn’t super important and about the ultra rich, I appreciated the original topic. Thanks for stopping by!
My favorite aunt loved to read historical fiction. I definitely need to read more of it, myself. Thanks for the review, Barbara!
It’s an excellent genre. I think younger kids in school would find history more interesting if they read more historical fiction. Thanks for stopping by!
I love this time period in historical novels. I have a nearly complete manuscript sitting in a drawer on this exact time period and husband-status-hunting premise, but so many books like it have already been done, I may re-work it into something else.