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You’re A Social Climber. What Horrible Faux Pas Have You Committed At This Dinner Party, Alienating Your Only Allies In High Society And Ruining, Perhaps Forever, Your Chance Of Winning Lord Grangemere’s Affections?

by Mallory Ortberg · June 8, 2016
The room just went silent. It has to be because of something you said.
Books

Lines From The Private World Of High Society So Startling I Read Them Aloud To My Grandmother This Weekend

by Mallory Ortberg · February 16, 2016
My grandmother, who is visiting me this week, patiently listened to them all.
Television

Watching Downton Abbey with an Historian: Movin’ On Up

by Mo Moulton · January 26, 2016
Historian Mo Moulton considers the ways in which social mobility is addressed and achieved on Downton Abbey.

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