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Title Return to Albion : Americans in England, 1760-1940 / Richard Kenin ; introd. by Alistair Cooke.
Author Kenin, Richard.
Publication Info. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1979.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  920.042 KEN    Check Shelves
Edition 1st ed.
Description xv, 288 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-282) and index.
Contents At the Court of King George : the Benjamin West Circle -- The rewards of invention : Count Rumford, Robert Fulton, and John James Audubon -- The English romance of Washington Irving -- The Lords of Change Alley : George Peabody and "Co." -- Expatriates incarnate : the world of Henry James -- The grandes dames : Lady Randolph Churchill, Consuelo Vanderbilt, and Mary Curzon -- The butterfly : James McNeill Whistler -- The assimilated : the Astors, Emerald Cunard, and Chips Channon -- The captains of commerce and journalism : Gordon Selfridge and Ralph D. Blumenfeld -- "Make it new!" : the Pound-Eliot axis.
Subject England -- Biography.
Americans -- England -- History.
Américains -- Angleterre.
Angleterre -- Biographies.
ISBN 0030428610 : $16.95
0030428564 (pbk.)