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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
". . . A revealing story of women across six centuries, their limited options, and their desires. Digging into the roots of the debutante ritual, with its ballrooms and white dresses, [the author]- herself descended from a line of debutantes- was fascinated to discover that the debutante ritual places our contemporary ideas about women and marriage in a new light. In this history of the phenomenon, [the author] shares debutantes' own words-from diaries,...