Author Archive: Francesca Beauman

On Writing MATRIMONY, INC.: From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, a Story of America Looking for Love

I’ve always been interested in the history of the everyday. My first book was about the pineapple – yes, the pineapple! It may sound like a joke, but it was based upon my Cambridge University dissertation on the subject which revealed that the pineapple was one of the most potent status symbols of the eighteenth […]