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April 19th, 2010 - 12:59 pm § in Fashion, Featured

Newport Undressed: Crafting the Gilded Age Wardrobe

Any of my lucky readers who have a chance to visit Newport this spring must stop by Rosecliff (the home of Tessie Oelrichs) for The Preservation Society of Newport County’s costume exhibit “Newport Undressed: Crafting the Gilded Age Wardrobe”. “We think of clothing as being cheap and disposa[...]

August 16th, 2009 - 6:43 pm § in Featured

Featured Link: Museum of Childhood

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 ignoran[...]

March 27th, 2009 - 12:50 pm § in Featured, Politics, Society, Women

A life of contrast: Daisy, Countess of Warwick

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 othe[...]

January 8th, 2009 - 6:00 am § in African American, Featured, Men, Society, Washington D.C., Women

Social Washington: the “Colored” Aristocracy

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, whos[...]





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