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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 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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Last Curtsey: The End Of The English Debutante: Maccarthy, Fiona: 9780571228591: Books - Amazon.ca
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 ...
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 ...
May 3, 2007 · Fiona MacCarthy traces the stories of the girls who curtseyed that year, and shows how their lives were to open out in often very unexpected ways - as Britain itself changed irreversibly during the 1960s, and the certainties of the old order came to an end. Report an issue with this product. Print length. 320 pages. Language. English. Publisher.
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A former Guardian critic, Fiona MacCarthy established herself as one of the leading writers of biography in Britain with her widely acclaimed Eric Gill (1989). Her next book, William Morris (1994), won the Wolfson History Prize. Her Byron: Life and Legend (2002) has been described as ‘one of the great literary biographies of our time’.
