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A DRESS OF VIOLET TAFFETA--the story of Lucy Lady Duff Gordon: fashion icon and Titanic survivor is on sale today wherever you buy your ebooks in the US! Sale ends December 2, 2022Amazon: amzn.to/3xc3bMd
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Remembrance Day --we also call it Poppy Day in the UK, is a memorial day observed since the end of the First World War to honor armed forces the many thousands across the world who died in the line of duty. WWI left a generation devastated: the Lost Generation and was known as the war to end all wars.
Are you watching Season 5 of The Crown yet?St Edward's Crown was made for Charles II in 1661 and was the one used in Queen Elizabeth II's coronation on 2 June, 1953 in Westminster Abbey. It is solid gold, 12 inches tall and weighs 4.9 lb. It is decorated with 444 precious and semi-precious stones.
The last traces of fall in northern New Mexico as we came home from our trip to Seattle. (Taken out of passenger window at high speed...because the drive takes 3 days and we were ready for home!!!)
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Death of a Dishonorable Gentlemen
Death of a Dishonorable Gentlemen will be released by Minotaur Books, St. Martin’s Press January 6, 2015.
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A Party for Winston
A Party for Winston. The second book in the series to be released in January 2016.
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Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon and the Dress of Emotion
Lucile, Lady Duff-Gordon is possibly more infamously known for the scandal surrounding her escape from the Titanic in an almost empty lifeboat with her secretary and her husband Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon. Continue reading
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Iyntwood’s Favorite Reads for 1912
It’s that list-making time of year. The ‘best of’ lists…’ As a particularly dedicated list-maker, I wanted to share Iyntwood’s favorite reads for 1912. Continue reading
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Kenneth Grahame and the Wild Wooders
“The Wind in the Willows” published in 1908 by Kenneth Grahame has often been referred to as a pastoral hymn to the rural beauty of England and the relatively un-spoiled countryside of the early 1900s. Continue reading
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Vaslav Nijinksy and the Ballet Russe
It was during the frenzy of the Coronation year of George V in 1911 that brought Nijinsky, star of the Ballet Russe, before the British public. Continue reading
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Bertie and the Entente Cordiale
It seems only right that I kick off this blog with the greatest Edwardian of them all: King Edward VII or Bertie as he was known to his family. Continue reading
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