Edwardian

Books written during or set in the Edwardian era.
The Edwardian era in Great Britain is the period following the Victorian era, covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910. It is sometimes extended beyond Edward's death to include the four years leading up to World War I.
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Sisters of Fortune
The Housekeepers
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen
An Assassination on the Agenda (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #11)
Rotten to the Core (Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #8)
An Act of Foul Play (Lady Hardcastle, #9)
A Beautiful Disguise (The Imposters, #1)
A Noble Scheme (The Imposters, #2)
An Honorable Deception (The Imposters, #3)
The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles, #1)
The Fatal Flying Affair (A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, #7)
Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor
A Fire at the Exhibition (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries, #10)
The Elusive Truth of Lily Temple
The Mistletoe Countess (Freddie & Grace Mystery, #1)
A Room with a View
Howards End
Maurice
The Secret Garden
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
Snobbery with Violence (Edwardian Murder Mysteries, #1)
A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
The Wind in the Willows
Think of England (England World, #2)
The Children's Book
Hasty Death (Edwardian Murder Mysteries, #2)
A Restless Truth (The Last Binding, #2)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Our Lady of Pain (Edwardian Murder Mysteries, #4)
The Governess of Highland Hall (Edwardian Brides, #1)
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba BrayStalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri ManiscalcoJus Breathe by B. Lynn CarterThe Madman's Daughter by Megan ShepherdThis Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel
YA Gothic Historical Fiction
72 books — 63 voters

A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThe Magician’s Nephew by C.S. LewisPeter Pan by J.M. BarrieA Bear Called Paddington by Michael BondA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
City of London
143 books — 43 voters
The Séance by John HarwoodAffinity by Sarah WatersThings Half in Shadow by Alan FinnThe House of Velvet and Glass by Katherine HoweThe Diviners by Libba Bray
Victorian Spiritualism Fiction
132 books — 79 voters

Lost Horizon by James HiltonThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Classic Adventure - 1850-1950
42 books — 7 voters
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney TaylorListening for Lions by Gloria WhelanHattie Big Sky by Kirby LarsonVoyage on the Great Titanic by Ellen Emerson WhiteAnastasia by Carolyn Meyer
Middle Grade Fiction set in the 1910s
176 books — 42 voters


Violet Bonham Carter
[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took place year after year in a setting of traditional dignity and beauty. The great houses—Devonshire, Dorchester, Grosvenor, Stafford and Lansdowne House—had not yet been converted into museums, hotels and flats, and there we danced through the long summer nights till dawn. The great country-houses still flourished in their glory, and on their lawns in the green shade of trees ...more
Violet Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait

Saki
Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason that than he didn’t get one in December. He had no more idea of succumbing to them than he had of purchasing the fish-knives and fur boas that ladies are impelled to sacrifice through the medium of advertisement columns during twelve months of the year. Still, there was something impressive in this unasked-for renunciation of ...more
saki, Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches

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