First Published: 2017
This is a non-fiction book about the rich women marrying English aristocrats at the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century. The prologue tells us that the book will analyse the reasons and some of the cases.
The prologue tells us about the long depression that started in 1873. The Panic of 1873 was a financial crisis that triggered an economic depression in Europe and North America that lasted from 1873 to 1877. In Britain, the Panic started two decades of stagnation known as the "Long Depression" that weakened the country's economic leadership.
That time was a period which in America called the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age lasted from the late 1800s to the early 1900s and was characterized by economic growth for the wealthy and extreme poverty for the working classes. A societal shift from agriculture to industry resulted in a movement to the cities for some and westward migration for others.
Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers has a plot in which three rich American girls are to marry English aristocrats. The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the 1870s, around the time Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937 and published in that form in 1938. The story revolves around five wealthy and ambitious American girls, their guardians, and the titled, landed, but impoverished Englishmen who marry them as the girls participate in the London Season.
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