CHAPTER 15
1. One estimate said that American girls had brought $50 million into the country.
2. Except, of course, in those days, women and black Americans.
3. The Great Reform Act, as it was known, was the first to effectively challenge the electoral status quo. It increased the size of the electorate (though not by very much) so that around one in five adult males could vote, and granted seats in the House of Commons to the large cities that had sprung up in the Industrial Revolution.
4. Quoted by Paul Jonathan Woolf in Special Relationships: Anglo-American Love Affairs, Courtship and Marriages in Fiction, 1821–1914. University of Birmingham, 2007.
5. The year before had seen the Tranby Croft gambling scandal, in which the Prince of Wales was involved, which hinged on one of the guests in the country house Tranby Croft cheating at baccarat.
6. From Domestic Service by Lucy Maynard Salmon. Macmillan, New York, 1901.
7. Town Topics, 5 January 1888.
8. In ‘A Study of New York Society’ by Mayo William Hazeltine, The Nineteenth Century Magazine, 31 May 1882.