★★½ (2½ out of 4)
They’re back! Those five girlboss American heiresses, tagged as buccaneers by novelist Edith Wharton for their plan, prodded by their mother, to travel to London in the 1870s to marry titled Englishmen who need their U.S. dollars to live the privileged lives to which they’ve become accustomed. Fair exchange? Hardly. Wharton, a member of New York’s upper crust a half century later, knew the pressures on women to marry for reasons other than love to secure a place in society that would give them some measure of independence.