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Notes Introduction The epigraph is taken from the Washington Post, Dec. 4, 2012. 1. Washington Post, Jan. 11, 2010. 2. Washington Post, Dec. 7, 2012. 3. Katherine Lee Hughes, “Wives of Public Men” (PhD diss., Columbia Univ., 1995), 9. 4. Jewell Fenzi, Married to the Foreign Service: An Oral History of the American Diplomatic Spouse (New York: Macmillan, 1994), 25. 5. Hughes, “Wives of Public Men,” 22. 6. Joan Wallach Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” American Historical Review 91, no. 5 (Dec. 1986): 1056. 7. As the political and social circles of the diplomatic world were so intertwined in this period, I have used the term “poli-social” to further emphasize the overlap of the two arenas. 8. Katie Hickman, Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Women (New York: Perennial, 1999), 53. 9. Catherine Allgor, “‘A Republican in a Monarchy’: Louisa Catherine Adams in Russia ,” Diplomatic History 21, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 41. 10. Hickman, Daughters of Britannia, 184. 11. Molly Wood, “‘Commanding Beauty’ and ‘Gentle Charm’: American Women and Gender in the Early Twentieth-Century Foreign Service,” Diplomatic History 31, no. 3 (June 2007): 507. 12. Linda K. Kerber, “Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman’s Place: The Rhetoric of Women’s History,” Journal of American History 75, no. 1 (1988): 9–39; Molly Marie Wood, “A Diplomat’s Wife in Mexico: Creating Professional, Political, and National Identities in the Early Twentieth Century,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 25, no. 3 (Winter 2005): 106; Molly Marie Wood, “An American Diplomat’s Wife in Mexico: Gender, Politics, and Foreign Affairs Activism, 1907–1927” (PhD diss., Univ. of South Carolina, 1998), 15. 13. Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1989), 195. 203 14. Catherine Allgor, Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2000), 2. 15. Emily S. Rosenberg, “Walking the Borders,” Diplomatic History 14 (Fall 1990): 568. 16. Hundreds of such marriages united American heiresses with elite European and British men, generally of noble ranking. Unless otherwise specified, the term “transatlantic marriages ” refers to Anglo-American marriages between American women and British men. 17. This timeframe differs slightly from that in Maureen E. Montgomery’s analysis of Anglo-American marriages, which she bookends with the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and World War I. See Maureen E. Montgomery, Gilded Prostitution: Status, Money, and Transatlantic Marriages, 1870–1914 (New York: Routledge, 1989). 18. Howard Temperley, Britain and America since Independence (New York: Palgrave, 2002), 82. 19. Charles S. Campbell, Anglo-American Understanding, 1898–1903 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1957), 9. Between 1880 and 1910, W. H. Dunlop argues, 817 American women married British and European nobles. See W. H. Dunlop, Gilded City: Scandal and Sensation in Turn-of-the-Century New York (New York: Morrow, 2000), 37. 20. Campbell, Anglo-American Understanding, 9. 21. Charles S. Campbell, From Revolution to Rapprochement: The United States and Great Britain, 1783–1900 (New York: Wiley, 1974), 203. 22. Bradford Perkins, The Great Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1895– 1914 (New York: Atheneum, 1968), 153. 23. Kati Marton, Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History (New York: Anchor Books, 2001), 4. 24. Campbell, Anglo-American Understanding, 9. 25. Perkins, Great Rapprochement, 153. 26. Richard L. Rapson, Britons View America: Travel Commentary, 1860–1935 (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1971), 118. 27. Diana Whitehall Laing, Mistress of Herself (Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1965), 78. 28. Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class, and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship (New York: Nation Books, 1990), 120. 29. Kirsty McLeod, The Wives of Downing Street (London: Collins, 1976), 14–15. 30. Ibid., 15, 17. 31. Hickman, Daughters of Britannia, 65. 32. McLeod, Wives of Downing Street, 153. 33. Hickman, Daughters of Britannia, 62. 34. New York Times, Sept. 14, 1902. 35. Hitchens, Blood, Class, and Empire, 121. 36. As an example of such prosperity, a purchasing power of an estimated $1 million in 1880 would be between $130 and $200 million in 2008. Greg King, A Season of Splendor: The Court of Mrs. Astor in Gilded Age New York (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2009), xv–xvi. 37. Ibid., 381. 38. Milton Plesur, “Looking Outward: American Attitudes toward Foreign Affairs in the Years from Hayes to Harrison” (PhD diss., Univ. of Rochester, 1954), 30. 39. Matthew Josephson, The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861–1901 (New York: Harcourt...
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