id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2362 Gold digger - Wikipedia .html text/html 1552 239 71 A gold digger is a person, typically a woman, who engages in a type of transactional relationship[1] for money rather than love. In print, the term can be found in Rex Beach's 1911 book, The Ne'er-Do-Well, and in the 1915 memoir My Battles with Vice by Virginia Brooks.[2] The Oxford Dictionary[clarification needed] and Random House's Dictionary of Historical Slang state the term is distinct to women because they were much more likely to need to marry a wealthy man in order to achieve or maintain a level of socio-economic status.[2][3] The term gold digger rose in usage following the popularity of Avery Hopwood's play The Gold Diggers in 1919. Stephen Sharot stated that the gold digger supplanted the popularity of the vamp in 1920s cinema.[10]:143–144 American Gold Digger: Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith. American Gold Digger: Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2362.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2362.txt