We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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 of this summer colony in his recent release, Newport Villas: The Revival Styles, 1885-1935. Between that fifty year period dozens of mansions and villas were [...]
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 Victorian and Edwardians At Work is both fascinating and poignant. Told in–I’d guess–nearly 200 postcards, the story ranges from military officers to [...]
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 these visitors don’t find what they need–due to google pulling words from each post, rather than the post [...]
