The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London Event

Time:: 19:00
Date:: 20 November 2013
Venue:: Chawton House Library Chawton Hampshire GU34 1SJ

For more information regarding this event, please telephone Chawton House Library on 01420 541010 or email info@chawton.net .

Event details

A book launch and talk organised by the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies and Chawton House Library.

Historian Hannah Greig introduces the Beau Monde of Georgian England, a world of gossip, intrigue and scandal where conspicuous consumption and the right address, dinner guests, clothes, jewels and seat at the opera marked your status in society and were a passport to power.

Ticket Information

All evening Lectures begin with a wine reception and canapés at 6.30 and the lectures begin at 7.00 pm. Tickets £10; Students/Friends: £7.50
Purchase online or by ringing Chawton House Library on 01420 541010.

Speaker information

Hannah Greig,University of York,Lecturer in History