Eighteenth-century London LifeJ. Murray, 1937 - 385 pages |
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Page 152
... women were masked , and thus protected as they supposed , would talk with anyone whom they chanced to It was a pleasant break in the otherwise narrow and conventional lives of eighteenth - century women . It is , of course , absurd to ...
... women were masked , and thus protected as they supposed , would talk with anyone whom they chanced to It was a pleasant break in the otherwise narrow and conventional lives of eighteenth - century women . It is , of course , absurd to ...
Page 178
... women , and at the general folly and extrava- gance of their attire . There were few criticisms of men's fashions , and they were sometimes as foolish and extra- ordinary as the women's . Men flaunted nosegays of artificial flowers and ...
... women , and at the general folly and extrava- gance of their attire . There were few criticisms of men's fashions , and they were sometimes as foolish and extra- ordinary as the women's . Men flaunted nosegays of artificial flowers and ...
Page 275
... women , to which young girls of good family might be sent , and where older unmarried women could find a pleasant refuge from a cold world . She was offered the sum of £ 10,000 by a lady whose name is not mentioned , but who was , it is ...
... women , to which young girls of good family might be sent , and where older unmarried women could find a pleasant refuge from a cold world . She was offered the sum of £ 10,000 by a lady whose name is not mentioned , but who was , it is ...
Contents
LONDONS ASPECTS AND CHARACTERISTICS | 8 |
MEANS OF COMMUNICATION | 26 |
THE LIFE OF THE UPPER CLASSES | 40 |
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