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by A Lady of Distinction
Peformed By : Nadia May
Blackstone Audio Inc
Runtime : 4 hours
Categories : British Social & Economic Pre 1900
$25.95 $12.95
Naturally, a Lady of Distinction, in coy anonymity, has written it. But this book was no joke in Regency times, and much of the advice would have been taken very much to heart.Anne Woodley, editor, Regency Collection On-Line.
This book, written by an anonymous gentlewoman, covers the social customs and manners of her time, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in England. While devoted mostly to womens dress, it also covers deportment, movement, propriety, and aids to beauty and healthadvice that would have been taken very much to heart by the women of the time of Jane Austen and Napolon I.
The style of writing of this period can only be described as flowerywith endless adjectives, adverbs, and classical references. So one receives the following advice: Again, I repeat, the libertine, the gross Epicurean, may feast his imbruted gaze upon a form so stripped of decency; for he is a creature whose senses are bent to the earth and the basest offerings are his banquet. This, apparently, is the result of leaving too much shoulder showing!Anne Woodley, editor, Regency Collection On-Line.
Nadia May has been nominated as an AudioFile Golden Voice five years running and is a winner of thirteen AudioFile Earphones Awards. She is the co-founder of TheatreFirst, a theater company in the San Francisco Bay Area where she currently lives.
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