Features strong performances from Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain, and Tom Hiddleston.
The movie wasnβt a big hit in cinemas, but is a lovely over-the-top gothic romance if thatβs your cup of tea. (More tea?)
I've taught a reasonable amount of Victorian and some Regency literature and have casually read a decent amount of non academic history of the Victorian and Regency eras. A common trope I've seen is of a rakish character or a spendthrift couple running up huge debts with various vendors (especially tailors) and basically just not paying. Sometimes the character is shown as dying in penury but at other times they just seem to carry on in the same style as always, just ignoring or stringing along the vendors who provide their goods and services. What's more this seems to be seen as if not typical at least not unusual.
Was this sort of casual attitude toward payment for goods and services on the part of the upper classes an actual thing?
Marquess of Ikea Karlstad and Paying with Exact Change
Hi all, you guys were amazing the other day when I was looking for an obscure London pauper ancestor. Now here's one that's had me stumped for a while, and is frustrating because it should be someone who's quite well documented.
Name: Sir George Roberts, 1st Baronet Martholme
Born: c1859, Paris (but was an Englishman)
Wife: Martha Clemence, a Frenchwoman
Died: 1950
He was a biscuit manufacturer, evidently wealthy, possibly of Jewish ancestry. And that's all i've got. Bewildered by the lack of info I can find out there. Any ideas?
