Tag: Edwardian

The Empire Annual for Girls

Oh, how I love history. And books. And books from history. Here’s a real gem: the contents of the 1911 edition of The Empire Annual for Girls, which should tell you a thing or two from the title alone.   THE CHRISTMAS CHILD — MRS G. DE HORNE VAIZEY...

La Gazette du Bon Ton 1

I’ve been promising this for a while. It’s one of the things I stumbled across in my researching. How I love serendipity. La Gazette du Bon Ton was essentially what we’d call today a fashion/lifestyle magazine. It was published in Paris from 1912 to 1925, and offered a limpid...

Extraordinary People: Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard

One of the best (and most unexpected things) about being a writer in this interconnected world is that I’m in touch with people who are interested in books, reading and writing, and they live all over the place. When it becomes known that I have various research needs, these...