… she remembered had practically disappeared. Following English proprieties, the women were segregated from the men during musical evenings, and the Napoleonic court, highly militarised and made up in large part of parvenus, seemed to lack … (664). 11 Eager to become part of the whirligig of invitation exchanges, she hosted evenings (663) during which music was prominently featured, including performances from the two prima donnas of the Opera, Elizabeth Billington and …