Eleanor returned home from London and spent that summer at her maternal grandmother’s country home Tivoli; while enjoyable, she soon found herself preparing for her debut at cotillion. (cotillion: “a formal ball given especially for debutantes”; this was an event partaken by young women typically from upper class families)             Eleanor’s struggles with self-confidence were still evident at the many balls she attended as part of her “coming out”; she states about her ex

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