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  2. The Making of a Marchioness - Wikipedia

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    The Making of a Marchioness is a 1901 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, followed by a sequel, The Methods of Lady Walderhurst. Subsequent editions published the two books together, either under the original name The Making of a Marchioness [ 1 ] or as Emily Fox-Seton . [ 2 ]

  3. Peggy Crewe-Milnes - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Etienne Hannah Crewe-Milnes, Marchioness of Crewe CI JP known to her friends as Peggy, [1] (1 January 1881 – 13 March 1967), styled as Countess of Crewe from 1899 until 1911; was a Rothschild family heiress, and after the death in 1929 of her father, the former Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, she was said to be the richest woman in England.

  4. Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    If a prince or peer dies, his wife's style does not change unless the new peer is a married man (or a woman, if the succession permits). Traditionally, the widowed peeress puts "Dowager" in her style – for example, "The Most Hon. the Marchioness of London" becomes "The Most Hon. the Dowager Marchioness of London".

  5. The Making of a Lady - Wikipedia

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    The Making of a Lady is a television film based on the 1901 novel The Making of a Marchioness by Frances Hodgson Burnett that uses a screenplay adaptation by Kate Brooke.The film premiered in 2012 on ITV in Britain and was subsequently broadcast on PBS in the United States in 2014.

  6. List of fictional nobility - Wikipedia

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    In the books she is a young woman, aged 22 in the first novel, of marked beauty and competence. In the film, though similarly competent to her book equivalent, she is an elderly woman, and a widow. Gloriant, Duke of Bruuyswijc Gloriant: The protagonist of one of the four medieval Dutch dramas contained in the Van Hulthem Manuscript. [9] Dorian ...

  7. List of marquesses in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

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    Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury [2] Great Britain Robert Edward William Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne: 9 The Marquess of Bath: 1789 Ceawlin Thynn, 8th Marquess of Bath: Great Britain John Thynn, Viscount Weymouth: 10 The Marquess of Hertford: 1793 Henry Seymour, 9th Marquess of Hertford: Great Britain William Seymour, Earl ...

  8. List of marquessates in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

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    This article lists all marquessates, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. The title of Marquess of Dublin, which is perhaps best described as Anglo-Irish, was the first to be created, in 1385, but like the next few creations, the title was soon forfeit.

  9. A Group of Noble Dames - Wikipedia

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    First US edition (publ. Harper and Brothers) A Group of Noble Dames is an 1891 collection of short stories written by English author Thomas Hardy.The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or 18th century.