Daisy Goodwin’s American Heiress is the story of young Cora Cash, the wealthiest socialite in all of Newport just itching to escape the endless parade of social-climbing antics of her overbearing mother. As was common of wealthy Americans in the late 19th century, Cora’s parents move to England in order to secure their wealthy daughter the only thing that has escaped them: an English title, and therefore, respectability. It is there during a foxhunt with friends on a neighboring estate that Cora happens upon Ivo, […]