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Edwardian Promenade
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Website of Historical Romance author Evangeline Holland, which is devoted to the Edwardian era (1880-1914): fashion, people, music, food, places, etc, as well as nifty primary sources and a seasonal magazine! Join the fun of the period!
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Picnics And Picnicking

In order that a picnic should prove the unqualified success it should be, more than a fine day and pleasant company – both highly important items – are required. Forethought must be exerc...

1 day ago

Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee

Ten years after Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, the Diamond Jubilee planned to celebrate her sixty years on the throne was to be the celebration of the mighty British Empire. Under the helm of...

3 days ago

The Original Lady Diana

As one Lady Diana married the Prince of Wales in 1981, another Lady Diana–one just as heralded, just as admired, and just as idolized in her day–was soon to turn 89 in August. This Lady D...

6 days ago

Write Wednesday: Historical Fiction, Fun or Serious?

Much of the critical reaction to Hilary Mantel’s new release, Bring Up the Bodies, has focused on how her books elevate the genre of historical fiction, how her elegant and literary prose is he...

23 may 12

Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee

1887 marked the fiftieth year since Queen Victoria’s ascension and a jubilee was planned to celebrate this remarkable date in history. In those fifty years, Great Britain had grown into a vast ...

21 may 12 1 person likes this

When the World Took to Wheels

The bicycle had become commonplace and affordable, but the motorcar not yet ubiquitous, so it is a given that roller skating–essentially wheels on your feet–became an overnight sensation ...

18 may 12

A Lady’s Adventures in a Balloon

The air is the only element which remains to man to conquer for his own use and enjoyment. Consequently air ships are in the air, both in conversation and in fact; ballooning is the newest sport of t...

16 may 12

Upstairs Downstairs in Gilded Age America

Millionaires of the Gilded Age looked to Europeans–or more specifically, the British–for cues on how to recreate the leisured life in America, copying them from the construction of countr...

14 may 12

Sissieretta Jones, a Musical Pioneer to Be Remembered

By Maureen D. Lee When Sissieretta Jones: “The Greatest Singer of Her Race,” 1868-1933, is published May 15 by the University of South Carolina Press, it will be the culmination of a nine-year effort...

12 may 12

GUEST BLOG: Dara Young on her new release, The Cancan Dancer and the Duke

Origins of the Cancan Well, this was probably an obvious post. LOL! But yes, as a former dancer I eventually was going to have to talk about dancing. The cancan is a very high energy dance. Seriously...

11 may 12

Photographs of India under the Raj

According to the Daily Mail, 178 plate-glass negatives were found inside a size-nine Peter Lord shoebox by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) in Edinbur...

09 may 12

Briticisms and Americanisms

Our British brethren are great sticklers for ancient usage so far as spelling is concerned. Booksellers, publishing books for sale on both sides of the water, find it necessary to use the English ort...

08 may 12

A Proper Early Morning Tea

Early morning tea, brought by a housemaid who lit the bedroom fire while the lady sipped her tea, was accompanied by paper-thin bread and butter, or plain biscuits: these were home-made, or probably ...

06 may 12

Lucile by Lady Duff Gordon

“I loosed upon a startled London, a London of flannel underclothes, woollen stockings and voluminous petticoats, a cascade of chiffons, of draperies as lovely as those of Ancient Greece and dra...

01 may 12 1 person likes this

Telephone Etiquette

Everywhere in these days one hears the same story. The American woman in her home, whether in city or country, is becoming as dependent upon the telephone as her husband in his store or office. She o...

29 apr 12

Friday Reads: To Marry An English Lord

I’ve been in possession of the original copy for about five years, and I’ve loved it ever since my first read. It really is, as a reporter for the Kansas City Star gushed in an interview ...

27 apr 12

All Stripes: Dress Harmonizing with Decor

- The Sketch, October 1916

25 apr 12

Mailbox Monday #1

*Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia of A girl and her books and is now a traveling meme where bloggers share the books that came into their house last week. I was offered a copy of this upcoming YA...

23 apr 12

GIVEAWAY: Wentworth Hall by Abby Grahame

And you thought there were secrets in the Abbey . . . The Darlington family of Wentworth Hall, an elite British family, fills their time by caring for their extensive estate, and looking over their s...

23 apr 12

Dream Dinner Party Guests from History

Inspired by Tudor historian, Dr Suzannah Lipscomb, who was asked by The Telegraph to list six dream dinner party companions from history, I’m going to do my list, Edwardian style. 1) Lady Rando...

19 apr 12

Lord Desborough’s Sporting Legacy Exhibition

At 6’5, William Grenfell (cr. Baron Desborough in 1905) towered above men of the Edwardian era. He was also the ultimate sportsman: rowing, mountaineering, swimming, fishing and big-game huntin...

18 apr 12

Photographs of Edwardian Scotland

One of my favorite sewing bloggers, Debi of My Happy Sewing Place, dug these up from The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) and posted a few pictures on her...

17 apr 12 1 person likes this

The Fifth Avenue Easter Parade (and a little news)

As early as 1869 the Sunday parade of fashion on Fifth Avenue had become a feature of New York life. The Easter Parade still continues, but the fine equipages, with spirited horses and uniformed foot...

08 apr 12

REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Voyagers of the Titanic by Richard Davenport-Hines

One hundred years after the tragedy, many feel there is nothing left to be said about the Titanic, that every aspect of the ship, its passengers, and its sinking has been exhausted. While this may be...

06 apr 12

A Curious Case of Plagiarism

Some months ago a young man who represented himself to be an unpublished English author in sore straits submitted a manuscript to G.P. Putnam’s Sons. After the usual formalities the work was ac...

03 apr 12

Downton Arby’s

31 mar 12

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31 mar 12

English Court Dress

I wrote about Court Presentations nearly five years ago, and back then there were plenty of pictures and illustrations of women in their court dress, but it was difficult to find any of men in their ...

28 mar 12

Flapper Lingerie!

One thing I anticipate about Downton Abbey’s third series? The lovely 1920s lingerie. Corsets haven’t been entirely banished, but gone are the layers of Edwardian undergarments and in wit...

26 mar 12 1 person likes this

Lady Warwick’s Horticultural & Agricultural College for Women

In the mid-1890s, Daisy Warwick shocked society with her interest in socialist politics. At the time, British Socialism was a growing menace to the aristocracy and landed gentry, who viewed these wor...

23 mar 12

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