Catherine Ostler
Auteur van The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth-Century London
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The only thing I found peculiar were a couple of places in the text that Ostler comments on alcohol in a way that seems to expose a strong personal disapproval. I was particularly thrown by a statement regarding small beer causing everyone to be drunk most of the time. I might be misinterpreting the sentence, because stronger alcohols are also listed, but I think that a lot of the current experimental archaeology has demonstrated that small beer and ales were of a significantly lower alcohol point than their modern equivalents, and unlikely to result in consistent intoxication -- Ruth Goodman has a lot to say on this subject. I noticed commentary on drunkeness several times throughout the text, and thought it was interesting. Given the sheer amount of excess -- in waste of money, in food and fabrics and the pursuit of luxury at all costs, I was surprised that the alcohol seemed to offend the most.
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