Regina (virgosun) reviewed on 12/31/2018 + 887 more book reviews

A treasure trove for Gilded Age enthusiasts, but I found it a rather dry, hard-to-follow read with its multitude of descriptions, characters, and titles. How terribly sad were the fates of these young women, who were most often pawns of their more socially ambitious mothers.(In fact, the author states that the mothers were the actual husband hunters.) A TV documentary would have been more to my taste. 3 stars.

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