- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Edwardian Quotes
Manners, houses, and a very particular era.
One quote marvels at an Edwardian lady's full dress; another describes an actual Edwardian semi in Manchester, sized exactly as big as it needs to be. These quotes treat the era as texture — clothing, houses, and old-fashioned syntax alike.
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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations... English from Edwardian times.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first encounter with science fiction was reading the work of H.G. Wells when I was nine or ten, and I don't believe 'The War of the Worlds' or 'The Time Machine' have ever been bettered. Plus, I have always had a liking for Victorian and Edwardian clothes and contraptions, which tends to color the worlds I dream up.
- Moon
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I wanted to do 'The First Men in the Moon' was that there is something so challenging in the combination of space travel and the Edwardian period.
- Irish
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Ireland but also for the Scots and the Welsh - and for the English.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.
- Emotional Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great-grandfather was prime minister of Canada, and I had a very Edwardian upbringing. It was a beautiful, romantic way of growing up, until the family lost its money. And I decided to be bad and rough and find the streets rather than the gates.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020