‘BEAUTY IS PAIN … BUT ALSO POWER’—THE INFLUENCE OF CELEBRATED BELLES

By Laura Fitzachary ‘It must, however, be remembered, when considering their good fortune, that in the day in which they lived beauty was all powerful’ —Francis Gerard, Some celebrated Irish beauties of the last century (1895). Dublin in the mid-eighteenth century had varying degrees of social hierarchy, and the highest level of social standing, or ... Read more

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