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

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   Jan 5, 2006 · The young ladies who made their curtsies in 1958 had been trained to become debutantes and then to catch a husband, but were woefully unprepared for anything else.

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   Mar 16, 2008 · After the Lord Chamberlain's announcement that curtseys would be ceasing after 1958, there was a record number of applications for the final presentations, like a wave of panic buying.

3. www.amazon.ca › Last-Curtsey-End-EnglishLast Curtsey: The End Of The English Debutantes - Amazon.ca

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   Jun 26, 2007 · 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.

   • Author: Fiona Maccarthy

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   Why did it stop so suddenly in 1958? It turns out that by analyzing the iridium layer they found out it was a big asteroid that hit off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. 03/18/2008 in History | Permalink

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   As the writer and biographer Fiona MacCarthy - herself a 1958 debutante - documents in her new book, Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes, this was the year the socialite was forced to become a...

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   May 3, 2007 · 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.

   • Author: Fiona MacCarthy

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   What happened to curtseys after 1958?

   • After the Lord Chamberlain's announcement that curtseys would be ceasing after 1958, there was a record number of applications for the final presentations, like a wave of panic buying. One mother was said to have presented all four of her daughters. Under-age girls were brought out of boarding school to curtsey.

   Recalling the lost era of the debutantes - The Telegraph

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   What happened in 1958?

   • The year 1958 was in fact the watershed between the formal worlds of our parents and grandparents and the brasher, more freewheeling and flexible society that we all inhabit now. Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes by Fiona MacCarthy is published by Faber and Faber

   Recalling the lost era of the debutantes - The Telegraph

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   When did curtsy & bow sex differ?

   • According to Desmond Morris, the motions involved in the curtsy and the bow were similar until the 17th century, and the sex differentiation between the actions developed afterwards. The earlier, combined version is still performed by Restoration comedy actors.

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   When did the curtsey ritual start?

   • The curtsey ritual went back to the reign of George III, when daughters of the court circle who reached marriageable age were presented to Queen Charlotte by their mothers. This signified their entrée on to the marriage market. Through the 19th and early 20th centuries the system grew and solidified.

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   What is curtsy in Victorian courts?

   • In Victorian courts, the curtsy was done as a signal for courtship availability, and social status dominance or submissiveness, in order to be successful socially. [ 3 ] Further, some female domestic workers curtsy for their employers.

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   What is a curtsey ceremony?

   • The ceremony, or something like it, had been going for 200 years. The curtsey ritual went back to the reign of George III, when daughters of the court circle who reached marriageable age were presented to Queen Charlotte by their mothers. This signified their entrée on to the marriage market.

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   Overview. According to Desmond Morris, the motions involved in the curtsy and the bow were similar until the 17th century, and the sex differentiation between the actions developed afterwards. The earlier, combined version is still performed by Restoration comedy actors. [ 2 ]