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How did the upper echelons of British society really function in the late Victorian era? Read this entertaining insider account to find out. You’ll discover the truth behind the details that so many of today's novels get wrong . . .
Perfect for all history buffs, writers, and Anglophile readers, this is an annotated edition of an 1885 book written for an American audience by Adam Badeau, who served as US Consul in London in the reign of Queen Victoria. His tell-all account, laced with scandalous gossip and political details told with an insider’s intimate knowledge, covers topics as wide-ranging as the behavior of servants, the presentation ceremonies at court, and the London Season.
This new edition finally brings Badeau’s account, previously available only as an antiquarian buy or pdf scan, to your ereaders, with copious notes to help you with those references to personalities and practices that have long been forgotten.
Badeau, a long-time friend and biographer of US General (later President) Ulysses S. Grant, had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in high places—and as a novelist and journalist he had a keen ear for juicy nuggets of gossip. He wrote for a Gilded Age audience of rich Americans keen to visit England for its history, culture, and—for American heiresses—its potential titled husbands. His guide would have served to give husband-hunting demoiselles and their socially ambitious mamas and papas the basic knowledge they needed to avoid making embarrassing social gaffes as they entered a world bristling with rules about dress, behavior, and that peculiarly English obsession—precedence.
For today’s reader, the value of Badeau’s work is its authenticity. Unlike contemporary historical accounts, which although accurate are the nineteenth century seen at a remove, Badeau’s book has the authority of a man living in the moment and observing a society at close quarters. Writers of fiction set in the nineteenth century will find this work particularly interesting, and it will help them avoid some common errors.
How did the upper echelons of British society really function in the late Victorian era? Read this entertaining insider account to find out. You’ll discover the truth behind the details that so many of today's novels get wrong . . .
Perfect for all history buffs, writers, and Anglophile readers, this is an annotated edition of an 1885 book written for an American audience by Adam Badeau, who served as US Consul in London in the reign of Queen Victoria. His tell-all account, laced with scandalous gossip and political details told with an insider’s intimate knowledge, covers topics as wide-ranging as the behavior of servants, the presentation ceremonies at court, and the London Season.
This new edition finally brings Badeau’s account, previously available only as an antiquarian buy or pdf scan, to your ereaders, with copious notes to help you with those references to personalities and practices that have long been forgotten.
Badeau, a long-time friend and biographer of US General (later President) Ulysses S. Grant, had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in high places—and as a novelist and journalist he had a keen ear for juicy nuggets of gossip. He wrote for a Gilded Age audience of rich Americans keen to visit England for its history, culture, and—for American heiresses—its potential titled husbands. His guide would have served to give husband-hunting demoiselles and their socially ambitious mamas and papas the basic knowledge they needed to avoid making embarrassing social gaffes as they entered a world bristling with rules about dress, behavior, and that peculiarly English obsession—precedence.
For today’s reader, the value of Badeau’s work is its authenticity. Unlike contemporary historical accounts, which although accurate are the nineteenth century seen at a remove, Badeau’s book has the authority of a man living in the moment and observing a society at close quarters. Writers of fiction set in the nineteenth century will find this work particularly interesting, and it will help them avoid some common errors.
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