45 results for 'edwardian'

The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly coincided with the years of Edward VII's reign. Those years have...

First edition. A collection of articles and reviews about an extraordinary group of writers, raconteurs, and social activists who stimulated England's brief Edwardian period, many of which appeared...

The Edwardian era marked a great turning point in modern British history. In many spheres it produced the culmination of British power and influence which had been growing rapidly in the nineteenth...

This book examines social policy on poverty and unemployment in Edwardian England as exemplified in the conflict of ideas between two husband-and-wife teams of social theorists: the Fabian...

The furniture designs of William Morris, C. R. Ashbee and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are even more popular today than in their own lifetimes. The work of other figures, such as William Burges and...

Here are the passenger steamers, steam tugs, cargo steamers, steam coasters and paddle passenger steamers of years long past as captured in these fascinating old photograph showing in many cases what...

This study of the Irish Unionists in the Edwardian House of Commons fills an important gap in Anglo-Irish parliamentary history in the generation before 1914, and is the first to examine the role of...

The distinguished British art historian and critic recounts his Edwardian childhood, his aesthetic development and education, the early years of his marriage, and his pre-war relationships with a...

A remake, by Tony Harrison, of the fragmentary text of a satyr play by Sophocles into a comedy for our times, incorporating into the action the two Edwardian papyrologists who discovered the original...

A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and explosive rivalries beneath the opulent surface of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras.The popular...

AMERICAN HEIRESSES TAKE ON THE PEERAGE. In 1895 nine American girls, including a Vanderbilt (railroads), LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), Rogers (oil), and Whitney (New York trolleys), married peers of the...

The complete works of one of England's greatest Edwardian writersSaki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War...

Although women are often seen as "hidden from history," this book finally unveils the personal experiences of wives, mothers, and sisters in more than fifty British political families in Victorian...

Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts were different; history was different; sex,...

It is the autumn of 1913, and Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest shoot of the season. An army of servants and gamekeepers has...

"The third illustrated anthology of erotica takes the reader on a journey through four centuries of erotic literature and art. Part one, 'The libertine imagination', fuels libidinous fantasies. Part...