Word: edwardians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sued with a vengeance.* As it is, The Scarlet Tree is by no means the spectacular Sitwell history that may some day be written, but it is a family album with portraits in the best Sitwell style, and a precious, corrosive, amusing record of a swaddled & sheltered Victorian-Edwardian childhood...
Later, one Frederick Willis, an Edwardian survivor who accredited himself as "an old silk-hatter familiar with all the Great Hats of a great age," set the record straight: "The specimen ... is of the period of 1907 to 1914. The inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist...
...Oblivion. Perhaps it was more of an adieu than Trollope expected. Throughout the Naughty Nineties and the Edwardian and Georgian eras, Trollope's 41 novels were considered as dead as their author. As late as 1929 a student could win a master's degree in 19th Century English literature at Columbia University without being required to read a word of Trollope. Not until the 1930s did the first stirrings of reviving interest come; not until the first years of World War II did Trollope's stock begin, very perceptibly, to rise again...
...Shaw beamed through nose glasses, brushed her hair straight back, dressed in a modified Edwardian style, wore and advocated short skirts. An artist who recently sketched Shaw remembers her walking so softly that she "dreamed into the room, a small woman, all shades of grey, not beautiful but both composed and alive...
...wife was Thackeray's daughter. Her father was Essayist Leslie Stephen. Her husband was Essayist Leonard Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen's manner and her own brand of lyrical metaphysics. In uneasy, brilliant experiments, in critical essays putting such writers as Joyce and Arnold Bennett in their...