About the Book: Heiresses
Meet the heiresses.
Their dresses are the latest fashion, their rooms Mayfairs most luxurious,
their suitors Britains 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 Austens novels and countless period dramas. Their portraits painted by
Gainsborough, Zoffany, Reynolds crowd our museums while their lavish estates
pepper the countryside. However, a less genteel story lurks beneath the veneer
those glorious balls, dresses and dowries were funded by the exploitation of
enslaved men, women and children.
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