Earls And Girls: Dramas In High Society
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Beneath the glittering chandeliers and behind the gilded carriages of Victorian and Edwardian England, a world of scandal, ambition, and elaborate social performance played out with all the intensity of theatre — and Madeleine Bingham's Earls and Girls: Dramas in High Society chronicles it all with wit and precision. Drawing on a rich cast of aristocrats, socialites, and sharp-tongued hostesses, the book presents the grand rituals of the British upper classes — the Season, the country house weekend, the marriage market — as a stage upon which fortunes were made, reputations destroyed, and alliances cemented through carefully choreographed display. Bingham writes with the confidence of someone intimately acquainted with the world she describes, bringing a sharp social intelligence to bear on the peculiar codes and hypocrisies of elite society. Her prose is lively and irreverent, illuminating how class, gender, and money intersected in an era when appearances were everything and the price of a social misstep could be ruinous. A portrait of a world that was more precarious than it looked, Earls and Girls leaves the reader wondering just how much has truly changed.
Author: Madeleine Bingham
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Beneath the glittering chandeliers and behind the gilded carriages of Victorian and Edwardian England, a world of scandal, ambition, and elaborate social performance played out with all the intensity of theatre — and Madeleine Bingham's Earls and Girls: Dramas in High Society chronicles it all with wit and precision. Drawing on a rich cast of aristocrats, socialites, and sharp-tongued hostesses, the book presents the grand rituals of the British upper classes — the Season, the country house weekend, the marriage market — as a stage upon which fortunes were made, reputations destroyed, and alliances cemented through carefully choreographed display. Bingham writes with the confidence of someone intimately acquainted with the world she describes, bringing a sharp social intelligence to bear on the peculiar codes and hypocrisies of elite society. Her prose is lively and irreverent, illuminating how class, gender, and money intersected in an era when appearances were everything and the price of a social misstep could be ruinous. A portrait of a world that was more precarious than it looked, Earls and Girls leaves the reader wondering just how much has truly changed.