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Sisters of fortune : America's Caton sisters at home and abroad / Jehanne Wake.
Van Pelt Library CT274.C38 W35 2011
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating CT3260 .W34 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wake, Jehanne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Caton, Bess.
- Caton, Emily.
- Caton, Louisa.
- Caton, Marianne.
- Heiresses--United States--Biography.
- Heiresses.
- Americans--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Americans.
- History.
- Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Touchstone edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Touchstone Books, 2011.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781451607611
- 145160761X
- OCLC:
- 646112931
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