Women in Trousers
byINDUSTRY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: WOOLWICH ARSENAL © IWM (Q 27839) A female worker operates a naval gun rifling machine in the Royal…
social changes
The American Assault on Edwardian Society
byThe growing prevalence of a Yankee accent, indigenous or acquired, in smart drawing-rooms today, significantly betrays the New World leaven continually at work. Oddities…
Mrs. Alec Tweedie on Edwardian Bachelor Girls vs Jane Austen’s Old Maids
byIn the days of Jane Austen women made pickles and jams and conserves, or cured hams, while waiting for a husband. When the husband…