george v, 1910-1936

In the years following World War I, Lily Valance becomes a chorus girl to help support her widowed mother and falls in love and marries war hero Stephen Winters, unaware of the dark secrets that will threaten their marriage and Stephen's sanity.

Recounts the summer of 1911, when England seemed full of promise and unaware of the horrors that would come with the Great War.

In 1918 London, fifteen-year-old Billy, a pickpocket, meets Mr. Creecher, a monstrous giant, and their relationship swiftly turns from pure convenience to a strong bond as they journey northwards on the trail of Victor Frankenstein.

Daisy aspires to own her own dressmaking business while she works at a gown shop in Southampton, raising money to send her sick father to a nursing home, but when her employer learns that Daisy has taken on a second job as a barmaid in a brothel, Daisy is fired from the gown shop.

Julia Purcell, having grown up in the shadow of her more talented sister, finds a kindred spirit in her guardian's son, and self-worth as a nurse in France during World War.

Successful landscape artist Frances Purcell, burdened with responsibility for her three younger sisters and their English country home since she was seventeen, fears her art will suffer if she marries the man she has always loved.

In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.

Chronicles the life of Queen Mary, discussing her childhood in poverty, reign as queen, personal tragedies, and impact on English history.

Having always been able to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.

Presents a collection of critical essays on British fiction produced during the Edwardian and Georgian period from 1880 to 1914 and reflecting Victorian society, women's roles, and the advance of technology.