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MarkUK
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Date Posted：2022-07-04 06:12:19Copy HTML One for Shula. I've just finished A Distant Mirror, the Calamitous 14th Century by the American author Barbara Tuchman. It's a look at the 60 years 1340-1400 in Europe mostly as it affected France. It concentrates on events that the French nobleman Enguerrand VII de Coucy was involved with. It goes into enough detail to give you a good idea of life during those miserable times without getting bogged down in too much detail. About a third of it is social history, the rest political. For me the best bits are the story of the Papal Schism and the devastating defeat at Nicopolis, events which I knew little about. Highly recommended.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-12-09 08:14:34Copy HTML I've recently received a book about American heiresses who married British aristocrats between the 1870s and the First World War. They had the money, we had the titles and prestige. It lists dozens of US women mostly from New York, one even from Buffalo. A "Dollar Princess" from Buffalo? Please advise. |
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-12-09 09:45:33Copy HTML I've recently received a book about American heiresses who married British aristocrats between the 1870s and the First World War. They had the money, we had the titles and prestige. It lists dozens of US women mostly from New York, one even from Buffalo. There is a TV series called "The Gilded Age" which features the new rich vs the old rich in NYC in the 1880's. There is one character called The Duke of Buckingham who visits depending on who pays him the most. He has the title, the lands, the servants & all that, but not the money to keep them. The rich in NYC are all vying to "buy" his presence for prestige at their events. Usually TV and film productions make up titles for aristocrats to avoid problems with the descendants of actual figures. There was a real Duke of Buckingham around in the 1880s, but he had land and money. He served as a Cabinet Minister and a colonial Governor. |
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-12-09 09:55:30Copy HTML I've recently received a book about American heiresses who married British aristocrats between the 1870s and the First World War. They had the money, we had the titles and prestige. It lists dozens of US women mostly from New York, one even from Buffalo. A "Dollar Princess" from Buffalo? Please advise. Hannah Howard, daughter of Hiram Howard of Buffalo. She married Octavius Lambart, 5th son of the 8th Earl of Cavan in Canada in 1878. I assume he was a successful Buffalo businessman. |
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-12-09 10:16:30Copy HTML I've recently received a book about American heiresses who married British aristocrats between the 1870s and the First World War. They had the money, we had the titles and prestige. It lists dozens of US women mostly from New York, one even from Buffalo. A "Dollar Princess" from Buffalo? Please advise. Hannah Howard, daughter of Hiram Howard of Buffalo. She married Octavius Lambart, 5th son of the 8th Earl of Cavan in Canada in 1878. I assume he was a successful Buffalo businessman. Drawing a blank here, Mark. |
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Re：Books Date Posted：2025-12-10 08:40:13Copy HTML Look on this as your Christmas/New Year project to come up with a complete genealogy and history of the Howards of Buffalo. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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