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The era was preceded by the Regency era and succeeded by the Edwardian period.
The era was preceded by the Georgian period and followed by the Edwardian period.
Michael Balfe was the most popular British grand opera composer of the period, while the most popular musical theatre was a series of fourteen comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan, although there was also musical burlesque and the beginning of Edwardian musical comedy in the 1890s.
Fantasy photomontaged postcards were popular in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The preeminent producer in this period was the Bamforh Company, in Holmfirth, West Yorksihire, and New York.
Under Tree, however, Her ( later His ) Majesty's Theatre was most famous for its work with Shakespeare, building an international reputation as the premier British playhouse for his works during the Edwardian era, which had for so long belonged to Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre during the Victorian period.
The " Edwardian " in this case refers less to the Edwardian period of history than to Gorey himself, whose characters are depicted as wearing fashion styles ranging from those of the mid-19th century to the 1930s.
At its earliest it dates from the 17th century but has been much extended and restored, particularly in the period 1896 to 1903 when a large Edwardian wing was added to the south side.
Now an historic house museum, the building features a period kitchen, and house details from the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The church building is an imposing Gothic style building of the Edwardian period situated on a busy cross roads in the heart of Hanwell.
The first middle class suburban developments were built in the late Victorian and Edwardian period.
At its earliest it dates from the 17th century but has been much extended and restored, particularly in the period 1896 to 1903 when a large Edwardian wing was added to the south side.
The Edwardian era or Edwardian period in the United Kingdom is the period covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910.
The Edwardian era was a period during which the British class system was very rigid.
The Edwardian period corresponds to the French Belle Époque period.
The Edwardian period is sometimes imagined as a romantic golden age of long summer afternoons and garden parties, basking in a sun that never sets on the British Empire.
The Edwardian age was also seen as a mediocre period of pleasure between the great achievements of the preceding Victorian age and the catastrophe of the following war.
* The Edwardian Country House / Manor House ( Channel 4 TV / PBS series, very evocative of the period )
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Blackadder is joined by his batman Private S. Baldrick ( Tony Robinson ) and idealistic Edwardian twit Lieutenant George ( Hugh Laurie ).
Forgotten Futures is a role-playing game created by Marcus Rowland to allow people to play in settings inspired by Victorian and Edwardian science fiction and fantasy ( i. e. Steampunk ).
Coming Up for Air, his last novel before World War II is the most ' English ' of his novels ; alarums of war mingle with images of idyllic Thames-side Edwardian childhood of protagonist George Bowling.
The SPR is frequently referred to in Victorian and Edwardian literature as " the Psychical Research Society ".
The Old West End is a historic neighborhood of Victorian, Arts & Crafts, and other Edwardian style houses recognized by the National Register of Historic Places.
Jadis ' attempt to conquer London is portrayed as more comical than threatening, and further humour derives from the contrast between the evil empress and Edwardian London and its social mores, and her mistaking bumbling Andrew Ketterley for a powerful sorcerer.
Queens Hotel is a good example of the Edwardian baroque style, built in 1903.
Howards End ( 1910 ) is an ambitious " condition-of-England " novel concerned with different groups within the Edwardian middle classes, represented by the Schlegels ( bohemian intellectuals ), the Wilcoxes ( thoughtless plutocrats ) and the Basts ( struggling lower-middle-class aspirants ).
Although Christian use of Plutarch's story is of long standing, Ronald Hutton has argued that this specific association is modern and derives from Pan's popularity in Victorian and Edwardian neopaganism.
Close to Alexandra Park and Highgate Woods, Muswell Hill is a mainly Edwardian north London suburb.
The New Wimbledon Theatre is a Grade II listed Edwardian theatre built by J B Mullholland as the Wimbledon Theatre on the site of a large house with spacious grounds.
Rising property prices in all London areas have helped to see a large increase in property redevelopment of its existing Edwardian and 1920s to 1940s housing stock, which in turn is attracting new residents looking for a clean, safe, and relatively green environment to live in, close to central London.
The outside of the building is faced with flintwork and the interior contains a hammerbeam roof, Jacobean pulpit, early Edwardian pews with carved poppy-head ends, several table-top tombs, an ancient poor-box and a panel on the painted rood screen which shows William of Norwich, a boy martyr who is reputed to have been crucified in the 12th century.
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England.
* Restored to Edwardian condition, the station is lit by gas lamps
From 1905 to 1981 the town was home to Chorley Training College ( from the 1960s known as Chorley ' Day ' Training College ), designed by the Victorian and Edwardian architect Henry Cheers, and the town centre building now occupying this site is now Chorley Public Library.
The architecture is not entirely Victorian or Edwardian as some plots have been reused over time and new homes constructed in contemporary styles.
Munstervillage has been coined as a name for the tree-lined roads, in which Victorian and Edwardian houses are situated, that run off Munster Road which is a large residential road off Fulham Road in the northern end of Parsons Green.

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Victorian and Edwardian tablespoons used in the UK are often 25 ml or sometimes larger.
Lily Brayton was a noted Katherina in the Edwardian era, playing the part in a number of productions, sometimes opposite her husband Oscar Asche, and in the 1907 Oxford University Dramatic Society production opposite Gervais Rentoul.
Gorey's illustrated ( and sometimes wordless ) books, with their vaguely ominous air and ostensibly Victorian and Edwardian settings, have long had a cult following.
* The popular British television series Upstairs, Downstairs ( 1971 – 1975 ) and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah ( 1979 ) each dealt frequently with the world of the Edwardian music hall, sometimes through references to actual Edwardian era performers such as Vesta Tilley or to characters on the show attending performances, and other times through the experiences of the popular character Sarah Moffat, who left domestic service several times and often ended up going on stage to support herself when she did.
Note: In the twentieth century, the period 1910 – 1936 was informally called the Georgian Era during the reign of George V ( following the Edwardian Era ), and is sometimes still referred to as such.

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