Through the Keyhole: Sex, Scandal and the Secret Life of the Country House

✍ Scribed by Susan Law

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Scandal existed long before celebrity gossip columns, often hidden behind the closed doors of the Georgian aristocracy. But secrets were impossible to keep in a household of servants who listened at doors and spied through keyholes. The early mass media pounced on these juicy tales of adultery, eager to cash-in on the public appetite for sensation and expose the shocking moral corruption of the establishment. Drawing on a rich collection of original and often outrageous sources, this book brings vividly to life stories of infidelity in high places – passionate, scandalous, poignant or tragic – and reveals how the flood of print detailing sordid sexual intrigues, created a national outcry and made people question whether the nobility was fit to rule.

✦ Subjects

History; Nonfiction; HIS000000