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Jun 26, 2007 · Last Curtsey: The End Of The English Debutantes. Paperback – June 26 2007. by Fiona Maccarthy (Author) 4.3 74 ratings. See all formats and editions. Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end.
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Jan 5, 2006 · Fiona MacCarthy. 3.56. 172 ratings26 reviews. 'In 1958 - the year in which Krushchev came to power in Russia, the year after Eden's resignation over Suez, two years after John Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" - the last of the debutantes, myself among them, went to the Palace to curtsey to the Queen.'. Fiona MacCarthy and her fellow 'debs' were ...
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Jun 13, 2020 · Fiona MacCarthy and her fellow 'debs' were taking part in one of the final rituals of aristocratic power. The system had been in operation almost unchanged since the eighteenth century. It was a female rite of passage, an elaborate initiation ceremony marking the emergence of the virgin out of the schoolroom and into society at the marriageable age of seventeen.
MacCarthy combines social history, and a memoir of herself and her debutante generation, with accuracy, wit, and a deftness of touch that enables her to describe the antics of half-a-century ago ...
In 1958 Fiona MacCarthy, distinguished biographer of William Morris and Byron, was among the last batch of debutantes to be presented to the Queen. In elegant, wry prose, she uses the arcane rituals of the Season to tell her own story and that of her fellow debs, and to bring to life a society in transition, as the post-war years impoverished the British aristocracy, feminism began to take effect
Fiona MacCarthy’s Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes is a wonderful snapshot of a moment in history – the final swansong for the debutantes and an era of aristocratic British social history. 6 in stock
Jul 7, 2011 · Fiona MacCarthy. Faber & Faber, Jul 7, 2011 - History - 551 pages. Once upon a time the well-bred daughters of Britain's aristocracy took part in a female rite of passage: curtseying to the Queen. But in 1958 this ritual was coming to an end. Under pressure to shine - not least from their mothers - the girls became the focus for newspaper ...
