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A Somerset Maugham Award-Winning Author
Heiresses tells the stories of Mary Davies, who inherited London's most valuable real estate and was bartered from the age of 12; Consuelo Vanderbilt, forced into a loveless marriage; Barbara Hutton, who married seven times and died almost penniless; and Patty Hearst, who was arrested for terrorism. However, there are also stories of achievement: Angela Burdett- Coutts, who became one of the greatest philanthropists of Victorian England; Nancy Cunard, who became a pioneer of the civil rights movement; and Daisy Fellowes, linchpin of interwar high society and noted fashion editor.