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There is a story in “The Children’s Book,” and it is a good one, but the reader must persevere to find it. In a style that can only be described as über-rococo, A.S. Byatt has brought to life the ...

Extravagance abounds in the Yale Center for British Art’s latest major exhibition. A decade in the making, “Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century” presents a ...

This summer the world observed the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the first World War. Like the European aristocracies and their courts that almost exactly a century ago so disastrously ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

William Samuel Henry Llewellyn’s portrait of Queen Mary (1911–12) - Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024 A banner above this exhibition’s threshold promises “the opulence and glamour of the ...

The death of Queen Victoria in 1901 quickly ended the world’s interest in Victorian-style architecture. Her son, King Edward VII, succeeded the queen and advocated for elite high fashion and design ...

THE reign of Edward VII was hardly long enough to make an epoch, and ‘Edwardian’ will never have the rich and varied content of that useful epithet ‘ Victorian.’ The real break, the date that makes an ...

The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914. By Simon Heffer. Random House Books; 897 pages; £30. IN the late Victorian and early Edwardian period of 1880-1914, at least (see article), Britain had a ...

People say you should never judge a book by its cover, but when it comes to your home, first impressions matter. Not only can ...