Birth
Elizabeth was born 16 October 1682 the nineteenth child of Robert Walpole and Mary Burwell at Houghton Hall. She is known as the sister of the famous Sir Robert Walpole first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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“Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value.... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.”
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