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To Marry an English Lord: Or How Anglomania Really Got Started by Gail MacColl
4.0
This book was a fun listen. It mostly follows the stories of various American girls who went to England and married English nobility, using these stories to talk about the different waves of young women who came over and the differing social, political, and personal reasons and influences behind their decisions.
There were occasional asides in the narrative which were hard to follow. From what I understand based on other reviews and a quick glance through the physical book, these are different informational sections inserted on pages next to the main narrative of the text in book, but they caused some confusion in listening to the audiobook (though not significant confusion).
I would certainly recommend at least getting and looking through a copy of the physical book if you choose to listen to this in audio since the physical book does include photographs, news snippets, and other bits of information which are visual and cannot/do not transfer to the audio medium.
Overall, though, I really enjoyed listening to this. It was well narrated, and the stories were interesting.
There were occasional asides in the narrative which were hard to follow. From what I understand based on other reviews and a quick glance through the physical book, these are different informational sections inserted on pages next to the main narrative of the text in book, but they caused some confusion in listening to the audiobook (though not significant confusion).
I would certainly recommend at least getting and looking through a copy of the physical book if you choose to listen to this in audio since the physical book does include photographs, news snippets, and other bits of information which are visual and cannot/do not transfer to the audio medium.
Overall, though, I really enjoyed listening to this. It was well narrated, and the stories were interesting.