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June 25th, 2010 - 7:00 am § in Books

Presenting Edwardian Press

To further enhance your experience at Edwardian Promenade, I am going to put together short ebooks comprising both original content and reprints of articles and snippets I’ve discovered over the course of researching the Edwardian era. Some of the short ebooks may derive from posts on the webs[...]

March 27th, 2010 - 4:16 am § in Books, Research

Found in Google Books

I own a ton of Baedeker Handbooks (paid a pretty penny for a few of them) and now I find that they’ve been uploaded to Google Books! Take a trip through Great Britain of 1901, Berlin in 1910, Austria-Hungary before WWI, or the United States, Cuba, and Alaska in 1909. Travel around the Night Si[...]

October 25th, 2009 - 6:00 am § in Architecture, Social History

Featured Book: Newport Villas by Michael C. Kathrens*

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[...]

October 4th, 2009 - 6:00 am § in Research

Featured Book: Victorians and Edwardians at Work

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–nearl[...]

August 9th, 2009 - 1:31 pm § in Research

Ask Evangeline

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 [...]





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