Ep 75. On Debutantes, Balls and ‘The Season’

• Sources

• Kristen Richardson. 2019. The Season: A Social History of the Debutante.

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• Lucinda Gosling. 2013. Debutantes and the London Season. 

• Anne De Courcy. 2005. Debs at War 1939-1945: How the War Changed Their Lives. 

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• Eileen Spring. 1997. Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800.

• Fiona McCarthy. 2006. The Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes.

• Amanda Hendrickson’s incredible costumes https://www.amandahendricksoncostumes.com/texas-rose-festival