Lady Violet Greville on Society Bores
byLady Violet Greville was the daughter of the Duke of Montrose and his formidable wife Caroline, and became, in the 1880s and 1890s, the…
People
Society in the Edwardian Countryside, from an American POV
byThe country town in England serves as well to exploit all these national differences as though it were England under a microscope. The classes…
The Peerage at Work
byIn the 1880s, falling rents, an agricultural depression, and taxation all conspired against the lavish lifestyles of England’s aristocracy, and ten years later, articles…