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.
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Americans -- England -- History.
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Américains -- Angleterre. |
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Angleterre -- Biographies. |
ISBN |
0030428610 : $16.95 |
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0030428564 (pbk.) |
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