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200 14$aThe fortune hunter $ea German prince in Regency England /$fby Peter James Bowman
205   $a1st ed.
210   $a[England] $cAndrews UK$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (258 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-904955-71-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 208-218) and index.
327   $aCover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Quote; Dedication; Acknowledgements; The Fortune Hunter; Prologue; Sunday's Child; To England: The Jolly Marchioness; Marriage and Divorce; To England Again; Park-Hunting; Brighton and Miss Gibbings; The London Season; Four Good Prospects; Capital of the World; The Bonhams of Titness Park; The Jeweler's Daughter; Fading Hopes; Surprised by Love; Napoleon's Niece; Success After All; A European Personality; Epilogue; End Matter; Appendix; Foreign Marriages; Extracts From Briefe Eines Verstorbenen; Other Testimonies
327   $aNotes on Sources Bibliography; List OF Illustrations
330   $aThe two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off, the more alarmed society became.The most colourful of these men was Prince Hermann von Pu?ckler-Muskau (1785-1871), remembered today as Germany's finest landscape gardener. In the mid-1820's, however, his efforts to turn his estate into a magnificent park came close t...
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