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Dec 17, 2019 · The Many Debutantes of Henry VIII. After that splash of cold water, Richardson gets to the heart of the matter. The debutante ball is all the fault of Henry VIII. He split from the Catholic Church so he could divorce his wife. But that meant Protestants lost the very useful tool of nunneries. Spare or troublesome daughters could always be ...
- What Was The Season?
- What A Debutante Could Expect
- Attending Balls
- Making A Match
- Entering and Enduring Society
- Bibliography and Further Reading
And understanding the season is probably a very good place to start. The season corresponded with the sessions of government in the Houses of Parliament, which would run from November to June each year. The elite would descend upon the capital, bringing with them their families, building fashionable townhouses or taking lodgings and contributing no...
Like Daphne, elite young women, usually when they were around sixteen years old, would come out to society with a presentation to the monarch at court. George III founded Queen Charlotte’s ball in 1780, which was where this might happen. Eligible bachelors and their families would be watching the presentation of women, and mothers of debutantes wou...
Some of the most mesmerising scenes in Bridgerton (and indeed, for me, in any Austen period drama) are those of the balls and parties. Being seen at events was important, and there were plenty to attend, with many eligible bachelors present. These could be private balls, or those held in public spaces. There were also exclusive members’ clubs. For ...
It’s a common misconception that love and freedom of choice seldom came into question when choosing a match during the early nineteenth century, but the elite did have other things to contend with when finding a spouse: namely, wealth. Young women brought dowries to a marriage, which could very much help their position in the marriage market: hence...
So, as we have seen, a young woman coming out into society during the Regency period was governed by many societal rules and expectations. The primary goal was often making a good match for a husband – and guarding the best possible reputation the whole way through navigating the season and the marriage market. Though rumour couldget the better of ...
Roy & Lesley Adkins, Eavesdropping on Jane Austen’s England. (Abacus, 2014) Venetia Murray, High Society in the Regency Period: 1788-1830.(Penguin Books, 1999) Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (Yale University Press, 1998) Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian England (Oxford Univer...
Nov 22, 2019 · It's an ongoing tug of war between money, race, class, culture and tradition, and The Season makes sparkling work of it, even for those who have never seen a curtsy in their life. Genevieve ...
Jan 21, 2013 · An excellent and very important question, Monica! A chaperone’s role was two fold: first, to make sure her charge did not get into scrapes…including ruin and second, to help maneuver a debutante towards an advantageous marriage. It is important to stress that the role of advocate for a young, unmarried woman was perhaps a better description ...
Dec 22, 2019 · 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 ...
Nov 21, 2019 · In The Season: A Social History of the Debutante, Kristen Richardson makes the case for the import of a superficially glamorous but fraught practice. “Elitist rituals are easy to dismiss, and when they shape young women’s lives it’s easier still,” Richardson writes. “But if we do so, we miss a key part of women’s history, and of the ...
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