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Ladies of the Manor

How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago

Pamela Horn author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Amberley Publishing

Published:15th Sep '14

Should be back in stock very soon

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In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, where they spent the Season and where the girls officially entered Society by being presented at Court. Pamela Horn’s book examines the lives of these ladies from their childhood and marriage to their role as a ‘Lady Bountiful’. It covers their leisure pursuits, sporting activities, country house weekends, and much more besides, up to the life-transforming years of the First World War.

‘Pamela Horn has used original sources to investigate the times of these privileged women before society was utterly changed by the First Word War & its aftermath’

ISBN: 9781445619811

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 244g

256 pages