Breaking into Gilded Age New York Society
byBreaking into The Four Hundred became an art, as C. W. de Lyon Nicholls details in his book The Ultra-fashionable Peerage of America: Marriage…
Society
Portraits of The Souls
byBeautiful Souls — Link 5 December 2011 – 12 August 2012 Room 28 Free The ‘Souls’ were a sophisticated set of young aristocrats and…
Some Edwardian Slang
byAs per Violet Asquith’s (dau. of H. H. Asquith, PM 1908-16; m. Sir Maurice Bonham Carter in 1915) Diaries and Letters, 1904-1914 and Lady…