Edwardian Promenade

Weekly Round-Up: March 13

Evangeline Holland — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:00:30 +0000

I scour the web for interesting links so you won’t have to do it. Vic at Jane Austen’s World finds a great link to a website discussing 18th and 19th century carriages. Old Long Island posts the exterior views of William K. Vanderbilt’s Long Island country house, Idle Hour (Consuelo Vanderbilt spent her honeymoon with the Duke [...]

Shoulder to Shoulder

Evangeline Holland — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:52 +0000

The militant suffrage movement in Great Britain began as a Pankhurst family enterprise that, from 1903 to 1905 remained focused around Manchester, until the general election of 1905 brought matters to a head. Prior to the Pankhursts, the fight for women’s suffrage in Britain was a relatively tame one. In the mid 1860s, a group [...]

The Female Body in Corset

Evangeline Holland — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:00:30 +0000

(hat tip to weHeartit)

London’s Ladies’ Clubs

Evangeline Holland — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:58 +0000

Ladies began to carve out a separate, independent life of their own by the late 1890s, and there came to London a proliferation of clubs catering specifically to gentlewomen of rank and means. Inside, the clubs mirrored that of their more famous counterparts like White’s or the Marlborough Club, as centers of leisure and relaxation, [...]

200,000th Visit Contest

Evangeline Holland — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:00:07 +0000

In celebration of receiving over 200,000 visitors (thank you all!) I am running a special contest for my readers. The prize? A copy of Anita Leslie’s The Marlborough House Set. The rules of the game? Find the answer to the following twenty questions, many of which may be found on this website (the names Bertie, [...]

Alice in Wonderland, 1903

Evangeline Holland — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:24:20 +0000

Lady Explorers

Evangeline Holland — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:00:24 +0000

It took a lot of gumption and even more courage for women of the Victorian and Edwardian eras to pack their trunks and set off for parts unknown. Despite the sharp edge of colonialism’s knife for the oppressed, the movement of European and American powers into Asia, Africa, South America, and the islands dotting the [...]

W. E. B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Sandrine Thomas — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:00:33 +0000

No two men of equal stature could have come from different places than Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois One was born during slavery and worked menial jobs to obtain his education while the other was raised amongst a relatively well-to-do family with roots in one of New England’s most beautiful towns. [...]

The Black Elite in America

Sandrine Thomas — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:00:27 +0000

Washington D.C. was both the capitol of the United States, but also the black elite. It was in this city, which was built with the labor of thousands of African-Americans, to which the beacon lights of the nation drew like moths to a flame. The “colored elite” of the capitol centered around Howard University and [...]

Images of Progress: African-American Women

Sandrine Thomas — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:45:51 +0000