fortune-hunting

• “This true story of a mid-18th century English heiress duped into a marriage with an abusive, masochistic, fortune-hunting monster is jaw-droppingly fascinating.”

  Reader reviews of Wedlock by Wendy Moore.

• “Asked whether she herself attracted envy from fortune-hunting ladies—Grandy Jersey was one of the richest men in England—Virginia sounds surprised.”

  Simon & Schuster: Chaplin’s Girl

• “Mike encounters Sally, who has tired of the fortune-hunting prince and of being a press target.”

  Simon & Schuster: Not the Girl Next Door

• “An Anatol arrives -- the fortune-hunting son of the lover, now dead -- who promptly seduces Erika and gets her pregnant.”

  The Wall Street Journal: An Updated and Ravishing 'Giulio Cesare'

• “In scuttling Catherine Sloper's engagement to a fortune-hunting scoundrel, her father not only "breaks the spring" of all affection in her but also deprives her of the opportunity to have children (and himself to have descendants).”

  You Oughtta Be in Pictures

• “The singer in the shower with a little boy (exonerated); the down-on-his-luck actor charged with the shooting death of his fortune-hunting wife (also exonerated); and the drug-addled 1960s record producer charged in the point-blank murder of a has-been (or never-was) actress and music club hostess he picked up one night for a little action.”

  Simon & Schuster: I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen

• “She allows herself to lose sight of morality when she tacitly approves of Mr. Wickham's fortune-hunting behavior simply because he's flattered her with his attentions.”

  4 Popular Misconceptions About Pride and Prejudice

• “Baffled hitherto in my matrimonial schemes, I began to question my talents for the science of fortune-hunting, and to bend my thoughts towards some employment under the government.”

  The Adventures of Roderick Random

• “Roger Carbury said well that it was very improbable that he and his cousin, the widow, should agree in their opinions as to the expedience of fortune-hunting by marriage.”

  The Way We Live Now

• “Whatever may turn up I do not think I shall go fortune-hunting again.”

  Ayala's Angel

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