Books we mention/recommend:

• The Husband Hunters by Anne de Courcy
• The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
• The Gilded Age by Mark Twain
• The Luxe series by Anna Godberson
• The Gilded Age Heiresses by Harper St. George
• The Four Hundred series by Joanna Schupe
• Uptown Girls series by Schupe
• Fifth Avenue Rebels by Schupe
• Bareknuckle Bastards by Sarah MacLean

References:

• Possibly source of the Spanish Influenza- Fort Riley in Kansas
• "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
• American dollar princess (wikipedia, n.d.)
• “Amy Henderson: “Downton Abbey” and the Dollar Princesses” (Henderson, 2012)
• “How American ‘Dollar Princesses’ Invaded British High Society” (Blakemore, 2023)
• “Why Did the Gilded Age End?” (Rotondi, 2022)
• “Gilded Age” (History.com, 2023)
• Harmen Jansen Knickerbocker" (wikipedia, n.d.)
• "Our Notable Knicks" (The Knickerbocker Historical Society)
• The Fabulous Leonard Jerome: Churchill's "Fierce" American Roots (Taylor, 2017)
• “The American Duchesses: A Tale of Two Consuelos” (American Duchess, 2017)
• “Inside Alva Vanderbilt's Party Of The Century” (Grimm, 2022)
• “The ‘Dollar Princess’ and the Duke” (Christies.com, 2016)
• “The Lost Wm. K. Vanderbilt Mansion -- 660 5th Avenue” (Miller, 2014)
• “Vanderbilt Ball” (Broyles, 2013)
• “The Vanderbilts: How American Royalty Lost Their Crown Jewels” (Robehmed, 2014)
• “A who’s who of the Gilded Age, ahead of the Met Gala” (Cope, 2022)