I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
Hosted by the Victoria & Albert, the Museum of Childhood is chock full of resources and links about the typical life of an Edwardian baby and child. At the turn of the century, new methods of child-rearing were promoted, helping to sever the link between the 20th century and the largely ignorant and superstitious beliefs [...]
by Victoria Fishburn
Imagine a beautiful woman from Edwardian England who married an Earl, became mistress to the Prince of Wales and astonished Society by standing as a Labour candidate for Parliament. Such a woman was Daisy, Countess of Warwick. Her words, written in two memoirs and countless other books, are still quoted by most [...]
From the end of Reconstruction until the Great War, Washington was the center of the black aristocracy. Nowhere else in the United States possessed such a concentration of “old families,” not merely from the District and nearby Maryland and Virginia, but from throughout the country, whose emphasis on family background, good breeding, occupation, respectability, and [...]
