I had held Beauty’s sceptre, and had seen men slaves beneath it. I knew the isolation, the penalty of this greatness. Yet I owned it was an empire for which it might be well worth paying.
—Olivia Shakespear, Beauty’s Hour (1896)
All the Rage is a perfect title for a book about terrible beauty.
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