The official companion to all three seasons. The Great War has ended, but Downton Abbey is far from peaceful...A changing world has brought new challenges and new guests. Inside the walls of the Great House there is more intrigue, rivalry and romance than ever. The Chronicles of Downton Abbey take y[...]
The Great War has ended, but Downton Abbey is far from peaceful... "Americans can't get enough of 'Downton Abbey, '" said "The Boston Globe. "As Season 3 of the award-winning TV series opens, it is 1920 and Downton Abbey is waking up to a world changed forever by World War I. New characters arrive a[...]
The Eighteen Nineties have become legendary: the period of Wilde, Beardsley and the Yellow Book; a decadent twilight at the close of the Victorian century, when young poets - weary of life - sat about drinking absinthe and talking of strange sins. The provenance of this beguiling picture is peculiar[...]
In this biography, Matthew Sturgis has uncovered a great amount of new material and used many previously untapped sources to produce the most compelling and definitive account of Beardsley's life to date. Starting with Beardsley's shabby-genteel childhood in Brighton and London, Sturgis gives reader[...]