EtiquetteJune 22, 2012<June 19, 2012 Country House Visits by Evangeline Holland Disraeli, in his ” Lothair,” wrote of a visit to a country house that ” it is a series of meals mitigated by the…
WarJanuary 4, 2012<October 20, 2013 WWI Wednesday: Wartime Rationing by Evangeline Holland Don’t Waste Bread! © IWM (Art.IWM PST 13354) It must have been a great shock to the Edwardians to go from extreme lavishness in…
OccupationsJanuary 28, 2011<January 28, 2011 The Type-Writer Girl by Evangeline Holland It was no coincidence that with the rise in female education, female employment would also rise in prominence. Something monumental happened to English society…