Upstairs Downstairs in Gilded Age America
byMillionaires of the Gilded Age looked to Europeans–or more specifically, the British–for cues on how to recreate the leisured life in America, copying them…
upper classes
La Belle Époque Paris and Its Society
byFrance may have been a Republic, but the glories of its aristocracy lived on. Granted, the upheaval of the last one hundred years resulted…
Promenades through London: Kensington
byThe shape of the borough of Kensington was likened to a man’s leg and foot in a top-boot, being bordered on the west by…