Heiresses

Meet the heiresses. Their dresses are the latest fashion, their rooms Mayfair's most luxurious, their suitors Britain's most powerful men. Their fortunes blood and sugar. 'This is a book you need to read.' Lucy Worsley Georgian heiresses are inescapable in British culture. They flutter through Jane Austen's novels and countless period dramas. Their portraits painted by Gainsborough, Zoffany, Re...