Edwardian aesthetic

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France ,1900

On her 1st Visit to MELLS- with Edward Horner Ottoline writes of her 1st visit to Edward Horner's MELLS in THE EARLY Memoirs. It is an interesting and telling-retelling of the visit she made with her husband Philip-a Liberal MP to the Conservative territory of MELLS. The visit preceded the first WAR- when the Coterie -(See LITTLE AUGURY today here) She was filled with dread at the thought of the Horner's politics along with the family's thoughts on Art & Literature. Remember- OTTOLINE was…

With the Edwardian era, which lasted from 1900 to 1912, came many life improvements that we still use today, such as electricity, cars, and vacuum cleaners. Still, it has also given us a fair share of bizarre facts, most of them concerning women.

How Edwardians kept their home cool in the summer. "The woman who must stay in the city all summer [...] should put her wits to work to make her house or apartment look as cool as possible - for the appearance of coolness leads us to imagine that the thermometer is really lower than it is." (Chicago Tribune, 1909)

Edwardian tips on how to be be graceful and why you should exercise to become more graceful.

Alexis Bledel as Winnie Foster in Tuck Everlasting (2002)