high-society scandals
the slide of the privileged aristocracy
Nineteen essays by Joan Austen-Leigh
The Cultivation of the Mind and Disposition and Carriage of the Body: Offering also the most efficacious Means of preserving Beauty
17880 Biography high-society scandalsFull subtitle is "The Story of Stately Homes of England their History, their Ghosts, Witches, Highwaymen, Mermaids, and other Strange Connexions." A book about the personalities behind some of the famous homes of England. With 8 plates in half tone, 9 maps and plans. Great homes covered include Longleat, Hatfield House, Chatsworth, Haddon Hall, Audley End, Knole House, Penshurst Place, Blenheim Palace, Lacock Manor. Murders, abductions, witchcraft,