Debutantes

by Charlotte Bingham

Book Overview

A Charlotte Bingham novel set in a London Season in the 1890s. It is not just about the debutantes themselves, but about the women who launch them and the society which supports their way of life. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553408909
• ISBN13: 9780553408904
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Length: 703 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 4.1" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

A good historical read

A good historical novel about 3 debutantes in England during the 19th century. The author tells each woman's story separately and then brings them to London for the season and for their debut at court. The main story revolves around the revenge of one of the girl's patrons on Lady Evesham. This is a good read if you like historical novels and if you enjoy reading about the English aristocracy.

A wonderful read

This is the best book that I've read this year. It's an interconnecting story of three debutantes, young ladies who are being presented to polite society at the turn of the 19th century. It's a fascinating observance of the mores and morals of English society at that time, with its strict obsrvances of the codes of etiquette, without which, anyone not quite up to scratch, could be easily weeded out. The author has gone into great detail about the clothing worn by the three girls and their chaperones, and I must say that I found it incredible that ladies of that time, were dressed from head to toe by their maids, including their most intimate apparel, and were virtually incapable of dressing themselves. It's a good story with revenge, deceit and plain old lust rearing their heads, and would certainly recommend this book to any lover of historical or Edith Wharton type historical tales.

Wonderful!

Debutantes is a wonderful novel that really allows you to get involved with the lives of the three girls and their world of the constant parties, teas, and the social funtions of a season in London. For anyone that loves this time in history the novel is perfect for you. Mrs. Bingham is a wonderfully detailed writer describing every detail of their lives, from clothes to the london enviorment around them. By the end of the novel, I really felt like I knew the three very different but wonderful girls and I really cared what happened to them. Debutantes is a incredible story and very interesting. It really makes you want to dash away with the heroines and their life in the London Season! Read it, it's wonderful!