| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Note |
Bibliography: p. 279-282. |
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Includes 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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| ISBN |
0030428610 |
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0030428564 (paperback) |
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