"If a historical setting is deployed for the gowns and the ballrooms, the violence of maintaining the peerage and the gentry comes with it, whether it is addressed or not. But not because it is the exclusive bygone baggage of the 19th century. Attempts to characterize it as such will always ring hollow. Some things have gotten better and some things will never change."
"If a historical setting is deployed for the gowns and the ballrooms, the violence of maintaining the peerage and the gentry comes with it, whether it is addressed or not. But not because it is the exclusive bygone baggage of the 19th century. Attempts to characterize it as such will always ring hollow. Some things have gotten better and some things will never change."
OOF