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The Edwardian era was the last time women wore corsets in everyday life. [ citation needed ] According to Arthur Marwick , the most striking change of all the developments that occurred during the Great War was the modification in women's dress, "for, however far politicians were to put the clocks back in other steeples in the years after the ...
Homininid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominini Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East : c. five thousand years ago).
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Victorian era: 1837–1901: Edwardian era: 1901–1914: First World War: 1914–1918: Interwar Britain: 1919–1939: Second World War: 1939–1945: Post-war Britain ...
Elsie Cotton (née Hodder, 8 April 1886 – 16 December 1962), known professionally as Lily Elsie, was an English actress and singer during the Edwardian era. She was best known for her starring role in the London premiere of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.
Obstetricians of this period connected lifelong corset-wearing to the difficult births that many Victorian women experienced. [15] In particular, the use of corsets during pregnancy was widely condemned, with physician Alice Bunker Stockham writing sardonically: "The corset should not be worn for two hundred years before pregnancy takes place."