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Dec 17, 2019 · “Young women have always been for sale.” This eye-opening sentence begins chapter one of The Season, Kristen Richardson’s serious, enlightening look at debutantes throughout history. It ranges over hundreds of years to explore the origin of why and how young women were presented at court in England and the ways this evolved into “the ...
Nov 22, 2019 · As debutante "seasons" first became popular, they offered young women a year or two to exist as a person who was neither child nor wife.
Based partly on accounts preserved in debutantes’ journals and letters, the book’s premise is rooted in the idea that debutante balls have been unfairly dismissed by scholars as part of an...
Whether maligned for its archaic attitude and objectification of women or praised for raising money for charities and providing a necessary coming-of-age ritual, the debutante tradition has more to tell us in this entertaining and illuminating book.
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Oct 1, 2013 · “The tradition of the debutante is not a twentieth-century phenomenon in the West,” David Patrick Columbia, founder of New York Social Diary, writes in the introduction to Diana Oswald’s new book, Debutantes: When Glamour Was Born.
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Oct 1, 2013 · “The tradition of the debutante is not a 20th century phenomenon in the West. It is an ancient and tribal custom, dating back further than the 14 year old Cleopatra being prepared to take the throne of Egypt . . .” Who knew?
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Nov 21, 2019 · The literary debutante is in many ways an ideal emblem of what generations of women writers have known keenly and grappled with: that the individual really is no match for the inculcations of her social environment, which can be restricting at best, suffocating at worst.
