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THE FRENCH MAID
In Nineteenth Century Britain, it was the fashionable thing among the wealthy for "Lady's Maids" (personal maid who assisted a woman) to be French. The craze was such that some who could not find the genuine article instead hired English maids who spoke some French and gave them French names. Because they traveled with and ...
| 1920’s GLAMOUR | THE GREAT GATSBY REVISITED
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan. It is a portrait created around the Jazz Age that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream. These photographs were ...