Re: Georgiana's establishment

Accepting what you say, Rosie J, it must be remembered that London was also a major port and comprised warehouses, a busy river trade,factories and a fairly large number of people below middle-class. (Cockney accents?) and that the fashionable West End was but a segment of it. It was little or no different than any other city except in size and population. Of that population, the percentage of it that belonged to the upper echelons of society were composed of those who only lived there plus the ones who came in fashionable season periods. There's a statistic somewhere claiming that the West End seemed almost empty when people had headed out to the country for the summer. Even today, the resident population of the City of London is only 7,000, the rest are daily commuters from the outer regions. One such region labelled as London is actually 45 miles from the centre.

The major English universities at that time, Oxford and Cambridge didn't admit women, hence ladies finishing schools, many around Bath.. It also is worth pointing out that at the time of meeting Lizzie, Georgiana is still only sixteen years old, so social life and meeting friends wouldn't be in a very advanced stage anyway.