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   Mar 7, 2023 · Rose Dugdale's father, Eric Dugdale, owned a 600-acre estate near Axminster and worked as a Lloyd's underwriter, per Fiona MacCarthy's "Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes." Carol Dugdale, her mother, was heiress to a soap-making family in Liverpool. The other debutantes recall Rose Dugdale as generous, witty, and the life of the party.

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2. www.discoverbritain.com › history-of-debutantesThe history of debutantes: Bright young things - Britain Magazine

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   Dec 5, 2023 · Credit: Madame Vacani teaching debutantes to curtsey in 1929. Shrouded in new etiquette – including the introduction of dance cards or ‘programmes’ so debutantes (and their parents) could keep track of their partners at balls – the Season had become a serious business. Society having turned against overtly arranged marriages, sending ...

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   Following the last curtsey, the Season further declined in the early 1960s, as money and success became more sought after than breeding, and as high society suffered the humiliation of causes ...

4. mywordsintoflesh.blogspot.com › 2018 › 07History and Meaning of Curtsy - mywordsintoflesh.blogspot.com

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   Jul 1, 2018 · History and Meaning of Curtsy. curtsy noun curt·sy \ ˈkərt-sē \ variants: or less commonly curtsey Definition of curtsy plural curtsies also curtseys : an act of civility, respect, or reverence made mainly by women and consisting of a slight lowering of the body with bending of the knees See curtsy defined for English-language learners See ...

5. www.reddit.com › r › TheWayWeWereMadame Vacani teaching young ladies how to curtsey in 1929.

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   Madame Vacani teaching young ladies how to curtsey in 1929. 1920s. 90. 2. Sort by: Add a Comment. boingggoesmyschlong. • 5 mo. ago. She is creeping me out.

6. www.goodreads.com › book › showLast Curtsey by Fiona MacCarthy - Goodreads

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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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   Did Vacani teach debutantes to curtsey?

   • An illustration from a 1911 issue of The Tatler by Dudley Tennant showing debutantes 'emerging' for their first Season. Credit: Madame Vacani teaching debutantes to curtsey in 1929.

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   Why did female prisoners resist disciplinary procedures in the 1800s?

   • Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies, and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s. Many female inmates resisted. In July 1859, the Superintendent of Mountjoy Female Prison, Dublin, wrote in desperation to the Directors of Irish Convict Prisons about the “lunacy” of Mary Murray.

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   Why did female inmates resisted incarceration?

   • Many female inmates resisted. In July 1859, the Superintendent of Mountjoy Female Prison, Dublin, wrote in desperation to the Directors of Irish Convict Prisons about the “lunacy” of Mary Murray. Her conduct in prison had become “so outrageous and violent” that she had to be confined in a straitjacket.

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   Who designed prisons for female convicts?

   • Accommodation for women was often an afterthought, and the penal system devised for them was largely a modified version of that designed for male convicts. Sir Joshua Jebb, Head of the Convict Prisons Directorate, was the man tasked with designing new prisons for female convicts.

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   When was the last time a debutant curtseyed before the Queen?

   • You may be surprised to find out that the practice of presenting debutantes to the English monarch continued into the mid-20 th century, per Country Life. The last debutantes curtseyed before the Queen in 1958.

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   What shaped women's prisons?

   • Women’s prisons, shaped by the ideologies of domesticity and ideals of motherhood, focused on restoring female and maternal qualities. Women required saving twice, firstly from their criminality and then from their deviance from anticipated female behaviour. This upturning of expectations had consequences.

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   Dec 24, 2018 · Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies, and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s. Many female inmates resisted. In July 1859, the Superintendent of Mountjoy Female Prison, Dublin, wrote in desperation to the Directors of Irish Convict Prisons about the “lunacy” of Mary Murray.