Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]
… one from what appears to be a wealthy family, provides a rare insight into what life may have been like for a young woman, paroled with her patents in the Hampshire town of Alresford in 1812. In her letter to a friend, a young woman named ‘Henriette’, gives a brief, vivid insight into gossip and life in a parole town, as well as into the giddy … and, if taken at face value, it provides us with an interesting account of what life could have been like for a young woman on parole. Henriette’s social life appears to have encompassed both French and British individuals, thereby …
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