The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

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July 21: I went a mile out of my way, down a narrow lane, to search for the spreading Campanula, where it used to grow years ago, but all trace of it had disappeared." Live performances, both amateur and professional, were popular. Henry Wood, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Arnold Bax, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Thomas Beecham were all active. Military and brass bands often played outside in parks during the summer. [92] The new technology of wax cylinders and gramophone records played on phonographs and talking machines, made live performances permanently available for repetition at any time. Clive H. Lee, "Regional inequalities in infant mortality in Britain, 1861–1971: patterns and hypotheses." Population Studies 45.1 (1991): 55–65. Horrall, Andrew. Popular culture in London c. 1890–1918: The transformation of entertainment (Manchester UP, 2001). The Edwardian period has been named after King Edward VII who succeeded Queen Victoria in the year 1901. With the accession of King Edward on the throne, the glorious Victorian age of England came to a sharp end. Victorian age was a period of immense conservatism and mostly gender biases.

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November 19: All the way along, the leaves were whirling down from the trees in hundreds and dancing along the road before me." Bowman, Timothy, and Mark L. Connelly. The Edwardian Army: Recruiting, Training, and Deploying the British Army, 1902-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2012). March 6: Tonight a Toad was discovered jumping about in the hall; it must have come in through the garden door which has been standing open all day." Matthew Roberts, "Popular Conservatism in Britain, 1832–1914." Parliamentary History 26.3 (2007): 387–410.

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Edith Holden's nature journal from 1906 with beautiful illustrations, weather lore and field notes. Crowds of birds came to be fed this morning. There were great battles among the tits over the cocoa-nut, and once a robin got right into it and refused to let the Tits approach, until he had had all he wanted. I don't think the robins really care for cocoa-nut; but they don't like to see the tits enjoying anything, without claiming a share. K.A. Hamilton, "Great Britain and France, 1911-1914" in F. H. Hinsley, ed., British Foreign Policy Under Sir Edward Grey (1977) online p 324 Ross, Ellen. "'Fierce Questions and Taunts': Married Life in Working-Class London, 1870–1914." Feminist Studies 8.3 (1982): 575–602. in JSTOR J., Stevenson, N. (2012) [2011]. Fashion: a visual history from regency & romance to retro & revolution: a complete illustrated chronology of fashion from the 1800s to the present day (1st U.S.ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 9780312624453. OCLC 740627215. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)

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Keith Robbins, "Grey, Edward, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2004; online edition, 2011) accessed 5 Nov 2017 The Palace's history of broadcast, particularly BBC television, is peppered with female firsts. On 2 November 1936, the first song ever performed on the brand new medium of television was sung by well-known radio and musical theatre star Adele Dixon. First-hand accounts of this historic moment relate to how wardrobe had to come up with a floral addition to Adele's dress to conceal the décolletage — how times have changed! I first got Edith (Holden) Smith’s The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, asa gift, and then later found this biography to compliment the diary. It’s inspired me to create my own country diary of the animals and flora of the place where I live. Every month I read the month that it is, in her diary which is organized by months. I’m currently up to June. Michael Epkenhans, Tirpitz: Architect of the German High Seas Fleet (2008) excerpt and text search, pp 23-62Trumble, Angus, and Andrea Wolk Rager, eds. Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (2012).

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Nabil M. Kaylani, "Liberal Politics and British-Foreign-Office 1906-1912-Overview." International Review of History and Political Science 12.3 (1975): 17–48. One sad thing to note here is that Holden’s book was written over a century ago. I noticed that some of the species which she talks about as being common – birds, butterflies, and flowers – are things which I have never seen anywhere in Britain.

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Sutherland, Gillian. "Self-education, class and gender in Edwardian Britain: women in lower middle class families." Oxford Review of Education 41#4 (2015): 518–533. P. P. Catterall and Colin Seymour-Ure, "Northcliffe, Viscount." in John Ramsden, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century British Politics (2002) p. 475. These were the minor changes that were taking place in those days. This was a very politically volatile period. Soon after the Edwardian age ended started the World War I in the fateful eventful year of 1914, till then the world had never witnessed such destruction. The Edwardian era is often stretched beyond the rule of King Edward. 1912 was a significant year in which the famous ship Titanic submerged mid sea. Contrary to the darkness of the Victorian age there was an air of cheerfulness and optimism in this era. How was the daily life of Edwardian working class?