 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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BOOKS Party time for the chosen few; Intermarrying was colossal. A 13th son married a 14th daughter, produci ng 12 siblings. The English Country House Party. By Phyllida Barstow (Sutton Pu blishing, pounds 10.99). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.
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The Birmingham Post (England)
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June 27, 1998
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Sociologists claim that, in a similar way to chimpanzees, human beings only feel at ease with members of their own tribe.
Nowhere was this social bonding seen more clearly than in Victorian and Edwardian upper class minorities, where the country house party was used as a meeting place for social evaluation and advancement.
From Sussex to Northumberland, the upper classes crisscrossed the country at weekends a hundred years ago. They used the railway network wh...
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