6 QUOTES WITH «EDWARDIAN»
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Edwardian.
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
My great-grandfather, Sam Aykroyd, was a dentist in Kingston, Ontario, and he was also an Edwardian spiritualist researcher who was very interested in what was going on in the invisible world, the survival of the consciousness, precipitated paintings, mediumship, and trans-channeling.
It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EDWARDIAN»
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Edwardian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Edwardian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Victorian and
Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey
A noted photohistorian documents bonnets, capes, frock coats, caps, shawls, bodices, and crinolines as people actually wore them from 1840 through 1914.
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The
Edwardian House: The Middle-class Home in Britain, 1880-1914
This book covers the most prolific house-building period in British history, resulting in the growth of the leafy middle-class suburb.
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Victorian and
Edwardian Fashions from "La Mode Illustrée
Over 1,000 illustrations document elegant ladies' fashions from 1860 to 1914: evening gowns, wedding ensembles, bathing costumes, cycling outfits, and much more. Accompanied by hundreds of stylish accessories.
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Classic Victorian and
Edwardian Ghost Stories
The unquiet souls of the dead, both as fictional creations and as 'real' apparitions, roam the pages of this haunting selection of ghost stories by Rex Collings.
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Athleticism in the Victorian and
Edwardian Public School: ...
Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schoools. The obsession has become known as athleticism. This is a study of the games ethos which dominate the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys.
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Antique Paper Dolls: The
Edwardian Era
Paper dolls to cut out, with costumes representative of the turn of the century to World War I.
Epinal Imagerie Pellerin, Imagerie Pellerin (Epinal, France), 1975
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Victorian and
Edwardian Prisons
This book looks at the development of prison buildings, at the life and labour of prisoners, and the position of prison officers. Attitudes to women and juvenile prisoners are also examined.
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Kindred Nature: Victorian and
Edwardian Women Embrace the ...
"Centers on what a number of British Victorian and Edwardian women said and did in the name of nature -- what part they played in the cultural reconstruction of nature that transpired in the years just proceeding the publication of Darwin's ...
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Edwardian fiction: an Oxford companion
Covers authors, chiefly British--about half women--and works and genres for adults and for children
Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell, David Trotter, 1997
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Edwardian Turn Of Mind
The Edwardian Turn of Mind brilliantly evokes the cultural temper of an age.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EDWARDIAN»
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Multi-million pound plan unveiled to restore Edwardian elegance to …
But exciting new plans developed by the Royal Hall Restoration Trust to recapture the tree-lined elegance of the Edwardian era at Britain's only ... «Ripon Today, Jul 15»
WATCH: Everton FC play Liverpool FC in the 1902 Merseyside derby
... which shows Everton hitting in two goals against their close neighbours Liverpool, was filmed by renowned Edwardian documentary makers ... «Daily Post North Wales, Jul 15»
Party-loving twin models given matching Asbos for terrorising village
At Stockport magistrates the models, who have since moved out of their £400,000 four bedroomed Edwardian semi, were given an interim ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Your guide to Birmingham Cocktail Weekend
You can also get exclusive Cocktail Weekend cocktails at The Edwardian Tea Rooms at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, The Eight Foot ... «Birmingham Mail, Jul 15»
Ladies in Lavender review: Bitter-sweet adaptation slides down like …
It, in turn, was adapted from an Edwardian-era short story by William J. Locke. Advertisement. Cornwall, circa 1937. World War II is looming on ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
What's on July 9-15
An Edwardian Summer. Northampton Chamber Choir Concert at All Saints Church, Brixworth, 7.30pm. £10 from St Giles Music, by phone ... «Northamptonshire Telegraph, Jul 15»
Exclusive: Abbey Lee Kershaw, Jaime King & Co. Get Moody With …
The cropped smoking jacket in crimson velvet, an homage to the Teddy Boys' riffs on Edwardian attire, has already been spotted on Lady Gaga ... «Style.com, Jul 15»
Royal Watchers Baffled At British Royal Nanny's Traditional Uniform …
Leigh van den Broeke wrote that the nanny “stuck out like fashion's sore thumb, propelling the christening back to the Edwardian period in a ... «International Business Times, Jul 15»
2015 In-House Recruitment Conference to take place in September
The 2015 In-House Recruitment Conference is set to take place on 9 September at the Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotel in Manchester. «Ri5, Jul 15»
Sargent at the Met
I consider him one of the great painters of the Edwardian age.” Bruce reminded me that he had written a 2012 Wall Street Journal column about ... «Power Line, Jul 15»
