· The American Heiress. by. Daisy Goodwin (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 39, ratings · 4, reviews. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, The American Heiress marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Be careful what you wish for/5. · Daisy Goodwin’s novel is about a Gilded Age Newport belle who heads for England to marry her way into a bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. Set in the same era and social class as much of Henry James's early work, Goodwin’s The American Heiress also follows James's lead in placing at the center of its plot a particularly Jamesian protagonist: nouveau riche American ingénue Cora Cash, whose trip overseas plunges her into an Old World milieu of old money, secrets, and social climbing. Goodwin does not pretend to break new ground in her topic .
Daisy Goodwin has 24 books on Goodreads with ratings. Daisy Goodwin's most popular book is The American Heiress. Drawing on Queen Victoria's diaries, which she first started reading when she was a student at Cambridge University, Daisy Goodwin—creator and writer of the new PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria and author of the bestselling novels The American Heiress and The Fortune Hunter—brings the young nineteenth-century. "Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms (who isn't?) will find an instant tonic in Daisy Goodwin's The American Heiress. The story of Cora Cash, an American heiress in the s who bags an English duke, this is a deliciously evocative first novel that lingers in the mind.".
DAISY GOODWIN is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Fortune Hunter and The American Heiress. She is a Harkness scholar who attended Columbia University's film school after earning a degree in history at Cambridge University and was formerly a leading television producer in the U.K. That was the year she published her first novel the American Heiress (My Last Duchess in UK), followed by The Fortune Hunter and now Victoria. She has also created VICTORIA the PBS/ITV series which starts in January. She has three dogs, two dogs, and one husband. Book Summary. Witty, moving, and brilliantly entertaining, The American Heiress marks the debut of a glorious storyteller who brings a fresh new spirit to the world of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Be careful what you wish for.
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