Margaret Macmillan

Edwardian Opulence, edited by Angus Trumble – review

<em>Margaret MacMillan</em> says that the ostentation of the Edwardian Age focuses the mind painfully on the horror that was so quickly to follow

‘Portrait of a Lady (Mrs Lionel Phillips)’, detail, 1903, by Giovanni Boldoni, Dublin City Gallery. Getty Images | Shutterstock | iStock | Alamy 
issue 27 July 2013
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  • Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century

    Angus Trumble

    Yale, pp. 417

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