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Dec 15, 2009, 5:19 pm
This film has been on my radar for quite some time, and believe me, if The Young Victoria failed to receive a U.S. release date, movie studios would have been on the receiving end of many tersely-word... Comment - Like
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Dec 13, 2009, 8:00 am
In the summer of 1885, Karl Pearson founded The Men and Women’s Club with the aim to discuss “all matters…connected with the mutual position and relation of men and women.” Pea... Comment - Like
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Nov 27, 2009, 8:00 am
The concept of the bachelor girl (or girl bachelor, woman bachelor, in common vernacular of the day) was an extension of the New Woman, both of which equally frightened traditionalists and gender divi... Comment - Like
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Nov 20, 2009, 8:00 am
For the unmarried gentleman of high society, the world was his oyster. At no other time in history was bachelordom such a widespread, and pleasurable, pursuit. As the turn of the century dawned, the &... Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 8:00 am
The Edwardian era was home to many fads and fashions which hearkened to bygone days, and the Merry Widow hat craze was no exception. The hat was just another part of the costume designed by Lucile for... Comment - Like
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Oct 28, 2009, 9:00 am
Despite its roots in European paganism, Halloween is a thoroughly American holiday. During the Gilded Age, Americans took Halloween quite seriously, even going so far as to celebrate it wherever they ... Comment - Like
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Oct 25, 2009, 9:00 am
It’s no secret that I find the “cottages” of Gilded Age Newport absolutely fascinating. While I have yet to visit the “Queen of Summer Resorts,” Kathrens brings a glimpse... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2009, 9:00 am
The typical Edwardian woman wished to see her name printed in the newspapers but thrice in her lifetime: at birth, her wedding, and at death. Fortunately for the press-hungry, a woman’s wedding ... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2009, 9:00 am
Gilded Age America saw not only a boom in millionaires, but a boom in immigration. During this era, approximately 10 million immigrants entered the United States, hungry for religious freedom and gr... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2009, 9:00 am
After reading The New York Magazine’s list of the Top 20 Chef Empires, and perusing a few culinary books I’d borrowed from the library, I was struck, dumbstruck actually, that all save one... Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2009, 9:00 am
The lives of the working classes are largely ignored in today’s fiction, and if featured at all, rarely is there a full and varied perspective of their livelihoods. The glimpse given in Victoria... Comment - Like
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Sep 7, 2009, 9:00 am
LABOR DAY, First Monday in September. The only day when labor works overtime.
An occasion when the workingman takes a cane in place of a dinnerpail
and proudly tramps the streets behind a real silk ba... Comment - Like
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Sep 2, 2009, 9:00 am
Modern and avant-garde art introduced itself to 1913 New York much against the latter’s will. Since the emergence of Impressionism, many other shocking developments in artistic expression set th... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2009, 3:27 am
From wikipedia:
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian’s beauty and becomes infatuated with him, belie... Comment - Like
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Aug 26, 2009, 9:00 am
One of the most striking differences between American women and English women was the role each played after marriage. The young American girl was sophisticated and cultured, with easy ways and uncons... Comment - Like
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Aug 19, 2009, 9:00 am
Since acquiring my Sony Reader, however temporary, I’ve found reading old books from Project Gutenberg has become a lot easier. I connect the USB cord to my laptop, download the book in ePUB or ... Comment - Like
Evangeline H. posted an article on
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Aug 12, 2009, 9:00 am
Biographies on Edwardian aristocrats largely confine themselves to Jennie Jerome, Lillie Langtry, and Consuelo Vanderbilt, so it’s a treat to discover one written about one of the most famous wo... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2009, 4:31 pm
I check my stats fairly often to see what draws traffic to Edwardian Promenade and also to obtain ideas for future posts. In response to many of the combination of words used to find my site, yet thes... Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2009, 9:00 am
I interrupt scheduled programming to give my loyal readers a peek into my semi-personal life. Last month I was given the opportunity to test drive a Sony Reader for sixty days courtesy of the smart, w... Comment - Like
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Jul 29, 2009, 9:00 am
Newport, known as the Queen of Resorts, or as Elizabeth Drexel Lehr stated ironically in her memoirs: “the very Holy and Holies, the playground of the great ones of the earth from which all intr... Comment - Like
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Jul 21, 2009, 9:00 am
Hairstyles of this period shifted with the shifting silhouette in dress and also reflected, as the era progressed, the growing freedom and emphasis on ease in hairdressing that marked a more mobile so... Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2009, 9:00 am
Much as today, the publishing industry of the Edwardian era wrestled with such familiar issues as distribution, declining interest in reading, literary fiction versus “trash” for the masse... Comment - Like
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Jul 8, 2009, 9:00 am
History has unfortunately immortalized Lady Duff-Gordon as the cold, imperious woman who, with her husband, Sir Cosmo, commandeered a lifeboat to themselves during the sinking of the Titanic, complete... Comment - Like
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