Must-Have The age of scandal – T.H. White

This amusing foray into eighteenth-century literature is an entertaining tabloid biography of an age not unlike our own; men and women of fashion led their lives under the avid scrutiny of a public who had a sharp appetite for scandal and sensation. In the period between the so-called Age of Reason and the Romantic Revival – that which the author calls the Age of Scandal – aristocratic and privileged eccentrics flourished and the professional writer declined. Here we meet notorious persons such as the Marqu…