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What is Left Behind about?

A young woman coming to court was expected to marry at some stage. Yet many things might intervene. Life at court might be more enjoyable than tying yourself to some man. Certainly, an increasing number of women stayed on at court, ageing but unmarried. At such a personal institution as the court, the personality of the woman you served could be crucial to your happiness. The noblewomen who served the embittered Queen Dowager in the 1770s, had few routes of escape. They were becoming too old to marry in contemporary opinion. They were too poor to live a proper aristocratic life outside the court.

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN