Miranda Kaufmann

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to Bombay, China to Australia, back to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, this is the story of the heiresses. Their assets, the product of the exploitation of enslaved Africans, enabled them to marry into the top tiers of the aristocracy and attracted the attention of fortune-hunters. They fell in love (not always with their...

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. A sobering and significant achievement, 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...