Note from Evangeline: I’ve been a fan of Melody’s review blog, Redeeming Qualities, for a while. If you recall an earlier vintage review I wrote for this site, owning a Sony Reader opened the doors to a lot of forgotten fiction published during the Edwardian period. This is where Melody&[...]
Posts Tagged ‘gilded age’
August 8th, 2010 - 8:00 am § in Women
Fascinating Women: Florence Foster Jenkins
America is the land of dreams and opportunity, and Florence Foster Jenkins was wealthy enough to take advantage of this. Born to wealthy Pennsylvanians, Florence expressed an interest in music at an early age. She took piano lessons during her childhood and adolescence, but when at adulthood, she ho[...]
July 26th, 2010 - 11:59 am § in Architecture
Lynnewood Hall, a Regal Ruin
Lynnewood Hall, a century-old stunner of a building just outside Philadelphia, silently, almost invisibly, languishes 200 feet beyond a two-lane blacktop road like a crumbling little Versailles. The graceful fountain that welcomed hundreds of well-heeled visitors, President Franklin Roosevelt among [...]
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[...]
December 21st, 2009 - 12:16 pm § in Headline
Edwardiana in the News
‘Palm Beach County at 100′ reveals details of the Gilded Age on island For Jan Tuckwood, editor of the new book Palm Beach County at 100: Our History, Our Home, one of the most surprising things about the history of Palm Beach was its use of advanced technology at the end of the 19th cen[...]
Hallowe’en In the Gilded Age
Despite its roots in European paganism, Halloween is a thoroughly American holiday. During the Gilded Age, Americans took Halloween quite seriously, even going so far as to celebrate it wherever they happened to be–as German society soon discovered when the expatriates residing in Berlin shook[...]
