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Jan 5, 2006 · Filtered through some of its most colourful and eccentric inhabitants, from Lady Caroline Lamb in the eighteenth-century to Princess Diana in the twentieth, "Last Curtsey" is a riveting portrait of Britain as both empire and the customs and certainties of the old order came to an end.
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Jun 26, 2007 · Fiona MacCarthy's autobiographical treatment of the last gasps of the British debutantes, who made their final presentation at the Palace in 1958, and of the stratum of society they represented, is engaging, often humorous, at times poignant.
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Jun 13, 2020 · "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.
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...
Nov 1, 2006 · Fiona McCarthy’s Last Curtsey, a personal account of the post-World War II tail-end of the deb’ (debutante) world suggests Enfield got it about right. ‘How was it,’ McCarthy asks herself, that ‘a girl so hyper-educated as me got through a London Season so uncritically?
She "came out" and was presented to the Queen in 1958, one of the last batch of 1,400 debutantes. Shortly after graduating from Oxford three years later, she achieved the ultimate deb's dream and...
Jul 7, 2011 · 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...
