Word: edwardianism
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...drab is a girl named Hilda, and the dim is a boy named Eustace. Their family name is Cherrington, and they start out in a modest, money-haunted, middle-class way during that long Saturday afternoon-the sunlit late-Edwardian, early-Georgian period. Hilda is vibrant and dry-adlike-the sort of girl most men cannot stay away from, but should. Eustace cannot, which is particularly unfortunate since they are brother and sister. So an overstuffed couch of near incest trundles along through two decades. In Novel No. 1, entitled The Shrimp and the Anemone (Eustace, of course...
Stuffed birds under glass bells no longer sit on modern mantelpieces, and the 47 books of Ouida no longer stand between ebony bookends. Yet Ouida, "almost the last of lady authors," is not just a Victorian-Edwardian period piece. Monica
With a mixture of incredulity and nostalgic delight, Britons learned last week that staid St. John's Wood had sustained and harbored a liaison of Edwardian style right into the welfare-state era. In a London court, one Jacqueline Gray, a 41-year-old onetime model, sued 81-year-old Sir Strati Ralli, Bt. (family motto: "Keep to the straight path") for the return of jewelry worth $34,000. Miss Gray charged that Sir Strati had taken the jewelry from her to have it insured, and had refused to return...
...LEGACY, by Sibille Bedford. A cool, backward look at Victorian and Edwardian Europe, a time when the big rich were truly idle and upperclass life was dedicated to an endless battle with boredom. Middle-aged First-Novelist Bedford turns the cosmopolitan novel, a rare enough product nowadays, into an immensely entertaining remembrance-and indictment-of things past...
...London art critic last week, "is that here's a nation that has just launched the first satellite, and yet they have sent us an exhibition 50 years old." Said a gallery manager: "It's like opening up the pages of an issue of Studio from the Edwardian era." The occasion was the first exhibition of Soviet graphic art in London since the honeymoon days of World War II. After critics had a good look at the 130 works by 14 artists, picked by the Union of Artists of the U.S.S.R., the consensus was: considerable competence, little fire...