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Wake, Jehanne.
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Caton, Bess.
Caton, Emily.
Caton, Louisa.
Caton, Marianne.
Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.
Americans -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Wake, Jehanne.
Caton, Bess.
Caton, Emily.
Caton, Louisa.
Caton, Marianne.
Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.
Americans -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Sisters of fortune : America's Caton sisters at home and abroad / Jehanne Wake.
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Wake, Jehanne.
Touchstone Books, 2011, c2010.
Call #:
941
.081
W146s
Subjects
Caton, Bess.
Caton, Emily.
Caton, Louisa.
Caton, Marianne.
Heiresses -- United States -- Biography.
Americans -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN:
9781451607611 (hc.)
145160761X (hc.)
Edition:
1st Touchstone ed.
Description:
xxii, 393 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
Notes:
First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
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.
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