"Cash for Title":Transatlantic Marriages Between"Dollar Princesses"and English Aristocrats in the Gilded Age
Hundreds of"dollar princesses"with large dowries married British aristocrats and became ladies in the Gilded Age.Transatlantic marriages were based on mutual benefits:the New Money in the United States would marry their daughters to the declining aristocrats to achieve status promotion by"cash for titles";poor British nobles married rich American girls and got their dowries to maintain family survival and revive family glory by"titles for cash".Advances in transportation technology,the increase in American wealth,and the economic difficulties of the English aristocracy led to the popularity of transatlantic marriages.Transatlantic marriages were widely criticized by the public at that time.It had important influences beyond marriage,especially in the economic,social,and diplomatic fields.It is a retrogressive act in the history of human marriage,which violates the marriage trend of"marriage for love"since the Enlightenment.It is also a manifestation of the history of transatlantic exchange,which has deeply influenced the elites of Britain and the US,and reshaped the upper society of the two countries to a certain extent.
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