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Author Bowman, Peter James

Title The Fortune Hunter : a German Prince in Regency England
Published Luton : Andrews UK, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Quote; Dedication; Acknowledgements; The Fortune Hunter; Prologue; Sunday's Child; To England: The Jolly Marchioness; Marriage and Divorce; To England Again; Park-Hunting; Brighton and Miss Gibbings; The London Season; Four Good Prospects; Capital of the World; The Bonhams of Titness Park; The Jeweller's Daughter; Fading Hopes; Surprised by Love; Napoleon's Niece; Success After All; A European Personality; Epilogue; End Matter; Appendix; Foreign Marriages; Extracts From Briefe Eines Verstorbenen; Other Testimonies
Notes on SourcesBibliography; List OF Illustrations
Summary The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became. The most colourful of these men was Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785-1871), remembered today as Germany's finest landscape gardener. In the mid-1820s, however, his efforts to turn his estate into a magnificent park came close t ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-218) and index
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Subject Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von, 1785-1871.
SUBJECT Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von, 1785-1871 fast
Subject Fortune hunters -- England -- Biography
Fortune hunters -- Germany -- Biography
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Diplomatic relations
Fortune hunters
Intellectual life
Languages & Literatures.
Germanic Literature.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056711
Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056819
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856
Subject England
Germany
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781908493293
1908493291
9781908493286
1908493283