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Julie Ferry

    Julie Ferry è un'autrice attratta dalla scoperta delle storie di donne affascinanti e in gran parte sconosciute della storia. Il suo lavoro di saggistica approfondisce le vite di figure come le ereditere americane che sposarono l'aristocrazia, dando vita alle loro esperienze con uno stile narrativo avvincente. Ferry combina abilmente la sua passione per la scrittura con un profondo interesse per le donne storiche, offrendo ai lettori spunti sui loro viaggi spesso trascurati.

    The Million Dollar Duchesses
    • "On 6th November 1895, the beautiful and brilliant heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt was wedded to the near-insolvent Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough in a dazzling yet miserable match - it glittered above all others for high society's marriage brokers who, in this single year, forged a series of spectacular, and lucrative, transatlantic unions. The bankrupt and ailing British aristocracy was suddenly injected with all the wealth and glamour of America's newest dynasties. Millions of dollars changed hands as fame, money, power and privilege were all at play. Brimful of scandal, illicit affairs, spurned loves and unexpected tragedy, The Million Dollar Duchesses reveals the closed-door bargaining which led to these most influential matches and how America's heiresses shook-up British high society for ever"--Page 4 of cover

      The Million Dollar Duchesses