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Feb 9, 2012, 1:00 pm
As regards the recognition of friends or acquaintances, it is the privilege of a lady to take the initiative, by being the first to bow. A gentleman should not raise his hat to a lady until she has accorded him this mark of recognition, although the act of bowing is a simultaneous action on the part... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 11:00 am
Tasha’s back again with her weekly recaps, with screencaps courtesy of Downton Online.
Did you all see the Downton Abbey skit on Saturday Night Live this weekend? It was soooo funny.
Anyway, this week I’m on pins and needles to find out who that guy with all the bandages is that Lord Grantham ... Comment - Like
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Feb 6, 2012, 2:19 am
Kate Hess of Deleted Playhouse emailed the first installment in Deleted Downton, and I had to share it with you. It’s pretty clever and I’m eager to see what DP does next.
The Deleted Playhouse fishes early drafts of scripts out of the trash, then shoots the scenes that didn’t make the final c... Comment - Like
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Feb 3, 2012, 1:00 pm
I could find little on the author of this business directory, which was published privately in 1905, but the directory itself is a goldmine of social history. To give a little context, Chicago was one of the destinations for African-Americans during the Great Migration; morever, the city was founded... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 1:00 pm
... , would have read during their leisure time. The following books are organized by theme and ... people under one roof that seems to attract scandal, gossip, and games, and the following books explore all of ... Girls Under the Stars and Stripes (1917)
The Red Cross Girls Afloat with the ..... Comment - Like
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Jan 30, 2012, 2:40 pm
Tasha’s recapping solo again this week (we’ll soon see Lynn again!), so without further ado, her thoughts on last night’s episode.
For once I’m glad this installment of Downton Abbey is only an hour, because I don’t think I could handle a 2-hour one this week. Anyway, I wonder what Thomas... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2012, 3:30 pm
Taking a cue from the owner of the Julian Fellowes’ Titanic fanpage, as well as the number of lists recommending Downton Abbey/Edwardian/WWI-themed books (and stay tuned for the list Melody and I are curating), I decided it was a great time to brag about display my research library. This, my reade... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 8:00 am
It is no easy matter to secure quickly the treasure for whom you are seeking. Do not be in a hurry and take anyone; it only entails expense, much vexation, constant changes, and a bad reputation in the neighbourhood, because it is soon said that ” no one ever stops with Mrs. So-and-so.”
Better ... Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 5:30 pm
Watch Beyond the Fiction on PBS. See more from Secrets of the Manor House.
Reviews:
Recap and Review – Jane Austen’s World
Edwardian England Revealed: Secrets of the Manor House – The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower Comment - Like
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Jan 23, 2012, 3:30 pm
Lynn can’t be with us today, but Tasha is still here, and her recaps are always funny and informative!
Tonight was very stressful because the Giants’ game went into overtime, which means my mom INSISTED on watching American Idol even though Downton was on AT THE SAME TIME. As if American Idol c... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 1:00 pm
From the website:
From January 18 to April 8, 2012, the Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture (BGC) presents Staging Fashion, 1880–1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke in the Focus Gallery. The exhibition is curated by Michele Majer, BGC assistant professo... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2012, 1:00 pm
Don’t you love the cover?
London, 1887. Part stoic gentleman, part fearless Yard man, Zeno “Zak” Kennedy is an enigma of the first order. For years, the memory of a deadly bombing at King’s Cross has haunted the brilliant Scotland Yard detective. His investigation has zeroed in on a ring of... Comment - Like
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Jan 19, 2012, 2:51 pm
Beautiful Souls — Link
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The ‘Souls’ were a sophisticated set of young aristocrats and society debutantes, who were drawn together by a shared interest in erudite conversation and high-spirited wit in the last two decades of the nineteenth cent... Comment - Like
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Jan 17, 2012, 1:00 pm
TWO MAJOR paintings by Irish artist Sir William Orpen are to be auctioned at Sotheby’s in London in May. The portraits of a Co Meath aristocrat and his glamorous music-hall wife – whose marriage scandalised and enthralled Edwardian society – have never before appeared at auction. Portrait of R... Comment - Like
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Jan 16, 2012, 1:00 pm
And we’re back once again with our Monday recaps of Downton Abbey. This was mostly a filler episode, in my opinion, as it set up the major dramas for the rest of the season (Downton as a convalescent hospital, Cora vs Isobel, Violet and Rosamund urging Mary to scheme against Lavinia to win Matthew... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2012, 9:55 pm
Perhaps due to poetic license, or historical media hearsay (i.e. inaccuracies that become “fact” due to continuous repetition in TV, movies, and literature), the second season of Downton Abbey shows a largely abbreviated and fictionalized version of life in a country estate-cum-military hospital... Comment - Like
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Jan 13, 2012, 11:00 am
Lily Price Hamersley became, with her 1888 marriage to the eighth Duke of Marlborough, the highest-ranking peeress in England and the first American duchess in fifty years.
The duke was one of three distinguished but, alas, short-lived husbands of this beauty from Troy, New York. Her fist husband, ... Comment - Like
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Jan 11, 2012, 4:15 pm
Watch Secrets of the Manor House – Preview on PBS. See more from Secrets of the Manor House.
Secrets of the Manor House premieres Sunday, January 22, 2012.
Exactly 100 years ago, the world of the British manor house was at its height. It was a life of luxury and indolence for a wealthy few suppo... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2012, 1:00 pm
I love recaps but decided to give the stage to some very excellent and funny Downton fans this season. I hope you enjoy!
Tasha: It’s two years after the end of season one, 1916, and Matthew is in a battlefield trench. He’s ordering people around LIKE A BOSS. He appears to be some sort of bossy... Comment - Like
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Jan 8, 2012, 10:50 pm
Life in the trenches was not a single, uniform experience for Allied troops in France, nor was it a strictly British experience; it was also not one long and relentless barrage of shells, grenades, snipers, and gasses from the enemy until one was wounded or killed. As Downton Abbey’s second season... Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2011, 3:01 am
Dear Readers,
I must beg your patience and test your loyalty during this month of November for I am participating in NaNoWriMo, otherwise known as National Novel Writing Month. The quest is to write 50,000 words between Nov 1-30, but I am hoping to complete my novel (all 100,000 words) in its entir... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2011, 11:00 am
... room was a manuscript by that great narrator of the sea, Joseph Conrad, the ... guilt. But it was Conrad’s great novel Lord Jim, in which a ... guide to all these aspects of this great ship, incorporating authentic period literature from ... contrive an excuse to go home early, at great f... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2011, 3:00 pm
Halloween Paradoxes. – THE EVENING before All Saints’ Day, formerly called All Hallows Eve, was originally given to religious observance. Modern usage now spells it Halloween, and it is now devoted mainly to mischief.
In the larger cities that enjoy adequate police protection the impulses of ma... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2011, 3:00 pm
Fortunately for me, my main library carried a small but excellent cache of books on Edwardian England, which enabled me to delve into the era at no cost. 1900s Lady, also known as The Edwardian Lady, was one of the first books I picked up when I began to research the Edwardian era, and though I don... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2011, 3:00 pm
I’ve just begun another marathon of The House of Eliott (which has lit a new fire beneath a plot I’d thought long burnt out), and as an ex-fashion student and after watching Signé Chanel, a documentary on the preparation of Chanel’s Fall 2005 collection, I grew interested on the construction ... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2011, 3:00 pm
Indian suffragettes on the Women’s Coronation Procession of 17 June 1911. The small Indian contingent was organised by Mrs Jane Fisher Unwin (the daughter of Richard Cobden). She and other representatives of the WSPU contacted Indian women living in the UK in the weeks leading up to the procession... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2011, 3:00 pm
As per Violet Asquith’s (dau. of H. H. Asquith, PM 1908-16; m. Sir Maurice Bonham Carter in 1915) Diaries and Letters, 1904-1914 and Lady Cynthia Asquith’s (nee Charteris; dau. of 11th Earl and Countess of Wemyss; m. Herbert “Beb” Asquith, Violet’s older brother in 1910) Diaries, 1915-1918... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2011, 4:01 pm
At no time is the arrangement of the hair so noticeable as in the summer, when the average healthy American girl goes hatless. At about sixteen or seventeen years the hair is generally worn up on the head, and if the present modes are followed, and the hair arranged deep over the brow and ears and l... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 11:26 pm
I had a technical glitch or two making this video (and forgive my crappy camera–but that means you should buy the book to see it all crisp and clear. *ggg*), but without further ado, here is a video of the official companion book, followed by my review!
As you can hopefully see in the video, the ... Comment - Like
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Oct 9, 2011, 9:00 am
Until Friday, I promise!
In return, let’s revisit posts from past Octobers:
Hallowe’en in the Gilded Age
Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: Ellis Island
Daily Life in the British Parliament, Part One
Interview with Philipp Blom, author of The Vertigo Years
Manors and Mansions: Geor... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2011, 7:44 pm
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Oct 3, 2011, 6:00 am
Illustrator Joyce Dennys and humorist Gordon Hampden collaborated on two books of humorous war time poetry. Dennys (1893-1991) was a V.A.D. during the Great War, and her role became a point of inspiration:
The Voluntary Aid Detachment started in 1909 when the War Office placed on the British Red Cr... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2011, 6:00 am
This is one of those slim, but incredibly informative books that focus on a particular facet of Edwardian life. I don’t recall how I stumbled upon this book, but I am a fan of horse racing, and The Fast Set gives a very entertaining look at Victorian and Edwardian racing society.
Though considere... Comment - Like
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Sep 28, 2011, 8:00 am
Now, as I said, I can do social history, I can do politics, I can do food, and I can even do diplomacy, but the military goes right over my head (Shh, don’t let my very military family hear this!); however, since WWI looms largely over both Downton Abbey and the Edwardians, it behooves me to do my... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2011, 6:16 am
On Downton Abbey, Sir Richard Carlisle is smooth, urbane, influential–and incredibly rich. Carlisle has built his fortune in newspapers–and not just any newspaper, but the tabloid press. His real life counterpart, Alfred Harmsworth, Lord Northcliffe, founded The Daily Mail in 1896 after earning ... Comment - Like
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Sep 23, 2011, 8:00 am
The 1980s were apparently a last hurrah for books about Edwardian society (no doubt in reaction to the death of the last Edwardian and “Soul”, Lady Diana Cooper, who died in 1986 aged 93), and the year 1984 in particular witnessed the release of two books about The Souls. I discussed a little ab... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2011, 9:48 pm
Spoilers for the next episodes abound in these pictures, so view at your own risk!
Episode Two
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Sep 19, 2011, 6:30 am
As I am but an humble American citizen and cannot legally access the latest season of Downton Abbey, what I can say about the happenings and history of series two will derive from what spoilers I glean from articles and stray tweets. So Edwardian Promenade and I are forced to march out of step with ... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 12:00 pm
The fashionable lady in Society required new clothes not only each year, but for each season and each activity. The less well-to-do usually had their clothing made over, or hired the services of a local dressmaker when in the country (and a lady’s maid had to be handy with the needle and up on the... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2011, 4:00 am
FTC Disclosure: The good people at Shire Books posted this book for a possible review.
I find Shire Publications a treasure trove for history buffs. Whenever I acquire a title, I am always by the amount of information and visual aids included in each release because the authors distill the most am... Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2011, 8:00 am
Belle Epoque France was relatively free of the hypocrisy of Edwardian England, and there, the courtesan flourished. The exploits, the rivalries, the fashion, the lovers, and the wealth of Les Grand Horizontals were given equal coverage as the doings of Tout Paris, and in fact, where the courtesans l... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2011, 5:01 am
When Downton Abbey ended its first series, little did I suspect that a companion book was in the works. Once news of the book was confirmed, and its cover and drop date released to the web, I was determined to interview its author, Jessica Fellowes. The wonderful closeness of the world wide web made... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2011, 12:00 pm
I downloaded Old Rose and Silver before I started Myrtle Reed’s Lavender and Old Lace, back when I thought Lavender and Old Lace was going to be good. And then, I did want to give Myrtle Reed another try, and I thought I might as well get it over with. And as it turns out, she deserved another sho... Comment - Like
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Sep 3, 2011, 4:03 am
Here’s something that will tide you over during Labor Day weekend (for Americans and Canadians)!
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Aug 29, 2011, 6:00 am
News of Julian Fellowes’ Titanic mini-series for ITV was met with much fanfare and discussion, but the BBC had also quietly commissioned its own 12 part mini-series, this time focusing on the actual construction of the R.M.S. Titanic from 1897 to its maiden voyage in 1912. Titanic: Blood & Steel i... Comment - Like
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