The Husband Hunters 3 (Pages 38 - 79)

 The book focuses on Adele Grant in the second chapter, an American heiress.

She got engaged to Lord Garmoyle. The aristocrat was in relationship with actress Mary Fortescue, and when he broke off the engagement, she sued him for breach of promise. 

Adele and Cairns got engaged, but the marriage was called off because of financial problems. 

Adele eventually married the Earl of Essex. 

The third chapter is about Jennie Jerome. Her mother Clara took her three daughters to Paris in search of husband.

At the time France was ruled by Napoleon III, and his wife Eugenie of Montijo dominated the social sphere. 

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed in absentia on 4 September 1870.

Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870. 

The women of the period mainly went to Charles Frederick Worth to make their wardrobe. Worth was a outstanding couturier. Charles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is considered by many fashion historians to be the father of haute couture.

Jennie Jerome married Lord Randolph Churchill. Jeanette Spencer-Churchill (née Jerome; 9 January 1854 – 29 June 1921) was an American-born British socialite, the wife of Lord Randolph Churchill, and the mother of British prime minister Winston Churchill.

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895) was a British aristocrat and politician

The next chapter focuses on Consuelo Yznaga, who married the Duke of Manchester. Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester (1853 – 20 November 1909), née María Francisca de la Consolación "Consuelo" Yznaga was a Cuban American heiress who married George, Viscount Mandeville in 1876. She became the Duchess of Manchester when her husband succeeded to the dukedom in March 1890.

Prior to his marriage, Mandeville had been considered an inebriate, and was shunned by respectable society. By 1882 Mandeville had spent so much of his wife's dowry on gambling and mistresses.

After one year, he was back with his mistress music-hall singer Bessie Bellwood, and the couple was living apart in London.