Country House Society The Private Lives of England Upper Class After the First World War eBook Pamela Horn
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When the cataclysm of the First World War impacted on British society, it particularly affected the landed classes, with their long military tradition. Country houses, as in a variety of popular TV dramas, were turned into military hospitals and convalescent homes, while many of the menfolk were killed or badly injured in the hostilities. When the war ended efforts were made to return to the pre-war world. Pleasure seeking in night-clubs, sporting events and country-house weekends became the order of the day. Many of the old former rituals such as presentation at Court for debutantes and royal garden parties were revived. Yet, overshadowing all were the economic pressures of the decade as increased taxation, death duties and declining farm rentals reduced landed incomes. Some owners sold their mansions or some land to newly enriched businessmen who had prospered as a result of the war. Others turned to city directorships to make ends meet or, in the case of the women, ran dress shops and other small businesses. The 1920s proved a decade of flux for High Society, with the light-hearted dances, treasure hunts and sexual permissiveness of the 'Bright Young People' contrasting with the financial anxieties and problems faced by their parents' generation. Pamela Horn draws on the letters and diaries of iconic figures of the period, such as Nancy Mitford and Barbara Cartland, to give an insight into this new post-war era.
Country House Society The Private Lives of England Upper Class After the First World War eBook Pamela Horn
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Country House Society The Private Lives of England Upper Class After the First World War eBook Pamela Horn Reviews
I was really hoping this would be more interesting. Instead I could barely keep my eyes open reading each long winded chapter.
Very dense, not to my liking. I couldn't get through it (mostly for lack of interest).
This boob is an insight or a window to the past.
It is an eye opener - as to how Upper Class lived in the past!
As a person who is interested in British aristocracy, I found this book to be very interesting, well written in Farmington. It was a great ride!
This book is often recommended when one is researching the series "Downton Abbey". However, I found it to be very dry and also very redundant, as the estates suffered the same trials, one after the other, and the aristocrats committed the same errors of indiscretion and over-indulgence. Although the names changed in the various chapters, I felt as though I were reading the same information over and over. The main threads--before the Great War, the Great War (WW1), post-war, and the 1920s with service in the great houses, wealthy American brides, the rise of the middle class, women's rights, and industrialization were all covered in "Downton Abbey" so I did not gain much knowledge with this book.
I definitely recommend this book, especially if you're interested in the post-war era of 1919-1929, the antics of "the bright young things" and the large gap between the upper class
and working-class "society.
Brilliant, indeed
Interesting and beautiful but ultimately tedious and repetitious
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