80. American Girls | Consuelo Yznaga Montagu, Duchess of Manchester
Done & Dunne
Hemlock Creatives
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this first episode of this American Girls trio of episodes, we celebrate the life of Consuelo Yznaga, the first American Girl to marry a Duke, the highest rank in the British peerage. Consuelo makes her match to the Duke of Manchester, but it is for her transatlantic marriage brokerage talents that this duchess is far more remembered.
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Further Reading:
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York, by Anne de Courcy (Amazon.com)
The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau: Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age, by Julie Ferry (Amazon.com)
To Marry an English Lord: Victorian and Edwardian Experience, by Gail MacColl and Carol Wallace (Amazon.com)
Million Dollar American Princesses, a Smithsonian Channel documentary series (Amazon.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dun & Dun. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn, where nothing is linear and everything is connected. |
| 0:10.6 | Thank you for joining me today, and I'm wishing you the very best of holiday weeks. I have a special treat for you this week, a trio of an arc. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm super excited about this one, friends. |
| 0:23.0 | We have explored a bit across the pond over the course of the last episodes. It's time to play |
| 0:28.3 | with a little transatlantic crossing here in the coming episodes. We're moving our investigation |
| 0:35.4 | to American girls, the plucky, sassy ladies who head across the pond to set London and the country house party circuit on fire for decades. |
| 0:47.5 | Before we begin with our first American girl, I do have a spyglass here to give some love and thanks and praise to our latest supporters over at patreon.com |
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| 1:34.4 | Big thank you to you both. |
| 1:36.6 | Sending all the warmest wishes to all of you. Thank you for your support of Done and Done. |
| 1:43.1 | Thanks for coming back to listen today. On our first |
| 1:46.4 | episode of our Ark of Three American Girls, it's the one that begins at all, really, the first |
| 1:53.3 | American girl to marry a Duke in Britain. This is Consuelo Isnaga, who will, through marriage, become Duchess of Manchester. |
| 2:03.3 | But you know I'm going to bring you way more spiderwebs than just a high society marriage. |
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