| Description |
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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audio file rdaft |
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CD audio |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Compact discs. |
| Performer |
Read by Cassandra Campbell. |
| Summary |
The story begins in England six hundred years ago when wealthy fathers needed an efficient way to find appropriate husbands for their daughters. Elizabeth I's exclusive presentations at her court expanded into London's full season of dances, dinners, and courting, extending eventually to the many corners of the British empire and beyond. Richardson traces the social seasons of young women on both sides of the Atlantic, from Georgian England to colonial Philadelphia, from the Antebellum South and Wharton's New York back to England. She delves into Jazz Age debuts, carnival balls in the American South, and the reimagined ritual of elite African American communities. |
| Subject |
Debutantes -- History -- Sound recordings.
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Upper class women -- Social life and customs -- Sound recordings.
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Debutante balls -- History -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Campbell, Cassandra, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9781684575053 |
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1684575052 |
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