The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

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Jon Lawrence, "Class and gender in the making of urban Toryism, 1880–1914." English Historical Review 108.428 (1993): 629–652.

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Roberts, Clayton, and David F. Roberts. A History of England, Volume 2: 1688 to the present (2013) university textbook; 1985 edition online David Brooks, The age of upheaval: Edwardian politics, 1899–1914 (Manchester University Press, 1995). Ann Beth Presley, "Fifty years of change: Societal attitudes and women's fashions, 1900–1950." Historian 60#2 (1998): 307–324. I like this for the animal and flower illustrations, post cards, and stories of life in the early 1900’s of Edith’s documented life, but not necessarily of most womens’ experiences, just hers. Her whole biography is not complete and although written in bits and pieces of known facts, we must remember that she lived a life with all needs met. This book changed the way I look at the world. I found it years ago, on a table in front of an old church, at a community garage sale.

Though fashion varied from time to time, all the old fashion costumes followed similar kinds of patterns. 1900s fashion was a changed version of previous Victorian fashion. So Edwardian dress costumes had many similarities with the dressing styles and patterns of the Victorian era. Edwardian Costume for women: The Gibson Girl:

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Suddenly their status in society elevated and they were treated as humans and not some machines. The underprivileged and the poor classes received benefits from the Government. The lower classes that were always segregated from the mainstream population, the mercantile classes were kept away from the royal and the elite classes. Clive H. Lee, "Regional inequalities in infant mortality in Britain, 1861–1971: patterns and hypotheses." Population Studies 45.1 (1991): 55–65. Searle, G. R. A new England?: peace and war, 1886–1918 (Oxford University Press, 2004), wide-ranging survey, 952 pp. George Frampton's statue of Peter Pan, "erected in Hyde Park in 1912 ... immediately became a source of contention, sparking debate about the role of public statuary and its role in spaces of recreation." [90] Literature [ edit ] Bowman, Timothy, and Mark L. Connelly. The Edwardian Army: Recruiting, Training, and Deploying the British Army, 1902-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2012).a b Michael Childs, "Labour Grows Up: The Electoral System, Political Generations, and British Politics 1890–1929." Twentieth Century British History 6#2 (1995): 123–144. The impact of the Triple Entente was to improve British relations with France and its ally Russia and to demote the importance to Britain of good relations with Germany. After 1905, foreign policy was tightly controlled by the Liberal Foreign Secretary Edward Grey (1862-1933), who seldom consulted with his party leadership. Grey shared the strong Liberal policy against all wars and against military alliances that would force Britain to take a side in war. However, in the case of the Boer War, Grey held that the Boers had committed an aggression that it was necessary to repulse. The Liberal party split on the issue, with a large faction strongly opposed to the war in Africa [43] Income of the working class people could hardly manage them a square meal. The Colemans who were associated with the upper middle class made a whopping 750-1500 annually whereas the annual pay for a working class cook was around 30. A maids income was even worse with a mere 16-22 annually. Thus there was the huge difference in the financial standing of Edwardian working class and the middle-class people in this decade. Field, Clive D. "'The Faith Society'? Quantifying Religious Belonging in Edwardian Britain, 1901–1914." Journal of Religious History 37.1 (2013): 39–63.

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During the 1906–09 school years, Edith Holden taught at the Solihull School for Girls. She fashioned her Nature Notes for 1906 as a model for her students' work. Then, like her younger sisters, Holden became an illustrator. She illustrated four volumes, 1907–10, of The Animal's Friend, a magazine of the National Council for Animals' Welfare, and a number of children's books, including The Three Goats Gruff. Her paintings were often exhibited from 1890–1907 by the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1907 and 1917. Nowell-Smith, Simon, ed. Edwardian England, 1901–14 (1964), 620pp; 15 wide-ranging essays by scholars. The Labour Party was emerging from the rapidly growing trade union movement after 1890. In 1903 it entered the Gladstone–MacDonald pact with the Liberals, allowing for cross-party support in elections, and the emergence of a small Labour contingent in Parliament. It was a temporary arrangement until the 1920s, when the Labour Party was strong enough to act on its own, and the Liberals were in an irreversible decline. Subtle social changes in the working-class were producing a younger generation that wanted to act independently. [16] Joseph Chamberlain, who played a major role in foreign policy in the late 1890s under the Salisbury government, repeatedly tried to open talks with Germany about some sort of alliance. Berlin was not interested. [38] Meanwhile, Paris went to great pains to woo Russia and Great Britain. Key markers were the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, the 1904 Entente Cordiale linking France and Great Britain, and finally the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907 which became the Triple Entente. France thus had a formal alliance with Russia, and an informal alignment with Britain, against Germany and Austria. [39] By 1903 good relations had been established with the United States and Japan. [40] It specialised in highly visible publicity campaigns such as large parades. This had the effect of energising all dimensions of the suffrage movement. While there was a majority of support for suffrage in Parliament, the ruling Liberal Party refused to allow a vote on the issue; the result of which was an escalation in the suffragette campaign. The WSPU, in dramatic contrast to its allies, embarked on a campaign of violence to publicise the issue, even to the detriment of its own aims. [66] [67] Birth control [ edit ]

Alison Gernsheim (1963). Victorian & Edwardian Fashion: A Photographic Survey. Courier Corporation. p.94. ISBN 978-0-486-24205-7. James, Lawrence (1994). The Rise and Fall of the British Empire. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0-349-10667-0. Fabrics were usually sweet pea shades in chiffon, mousse line de sore, tulle with feather boas and lace. 'High and boned collars for the day; plunging off shoulder décolleté for the evening'. [79] The tea gown's cut was relatively loose compared to the more formal evening gown, and was worn without a corset. The silhouette was flowing, and was usually decorated with lace or with the cheaper Irish crochet. [80] Ross, Ellen. "'Fierce Questions and Taunts': Married Life in Working-Class London, 1870–1914." Feminist Studies 8.3 (1982): 575–602. in JSTOR

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More than anyone [he] ... shaped the modern press. Developments he introduced or harnessed remain central: broad contents, exploitation of advertising revenue to subsidize prices, aggressive marketing, subordinate regional markets, independence from party control. [89] The arts [ edit ] Peter Pan statue, Kensington Gardens

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J. Lee Thompson, "Fleet Street Colossus: The Rise and Fall of Northcliffe, 1896–1922." Parliamentary History 25.1 (2006): 115-138. Interesting intro to the late 1800s/early 1900s, the location, and the Holden family. Well-illustrated. Guerriero R. Wilson, "Women's work in offices and the preservation of men's 'breadwinning' jobs' in early twentieth-century Glasgow." Women's History Review 10#3 (2001): 463–482. Marc Brodie, "Voting in the Victorian and Edwardian East End of London." Parliamentary History 23.2 (2004): 225–248. At the time, single mothers were the poorest sector in society, disadvantaged for at least four reasons. First, women lived longer, often leaving them widowed with children. Second, women had fewer opportunities to work, and when they did find it, their wages were lower than male workers' wages. Thirdly, women were often less likely to marry or remarry after being widowed, leaving them as the main providers for the remaining family members. Finally, poor women had deficient diets, because their husbands and children received disproportionately large shares of food. Many women were malnourished and had limited access to health care. [70] Female servants [ edit ]