Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 41 LADIES tN EVENING DRESS.{JThe Gallery of Fashion, June, 1796.} SOCIAL LIFE. 681 1802] was paralleled by that siinplitication of life which the nationalpoverty necessitated. In a sense, it is true, female dress merelypassed from one form of artificiality to another: the same maybe said of the nations ideas of morahty. Till 1793 the pros-perity of the nation had so steadily gro-\\Ti that the sufferingsc
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . 41 LADIES tN EVENING DRESS.{JThe Gallery of Fashion, June, 1796.} SOCIAL LIFE. 681 1802] was paralleled by that siinplitication of life which the nationalpoverty necessitated. In a sense, it is true, female dress merelypassed from one form of artificiality to another: the same maybe said of the nations ideas of morahty. Till 1793 the pros-perity of the nation had so steadily gro-\\Ti that the sufferingscaused b} the war were the more severely felt b} all manufacturers Avhose industries were developing, and thefarmers who had corn to sell, alone escaped. Intellectually andmorally the upper and mirldle classes were affected by whatthev endured. ^Yhen the news of the death of Louis England, the audiences left the theatres before thecurtain fell, the nation put on mournmg. And so in the Places ofyears that followed; Ranelagh is heard of no more, its ^^^^masquerades were at an end, and in 1803 it finalh Pantheon promenades and masquerades and operas wereo
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