"It's grand to be an Englishman in 1910
King Edward's on the throne, it's the age of men!" - George Banks, "The Life I Lead",
Mary Poppins
The long hot Indian summer between the death of Queen Victoria and the start of
World War One. A time of elegant tea parties, absurd women's hats,
Upper Class Wits, ridiculous flying machines and (mostly) unsinkable ships.
Strictly the term Edwardian Era only applies to the reign of King Edward VII from 1901 to 1910, but it is usually extended up to the outbreak of war to capture the end of an era.
The subject of many nostalgic
musical films featuring
Gorgeous Period Dress in
The Sixties.
Examples:
- Titanic (also Titanic The Musical)
- Several Disney films, including Mary Poppins, The Aristocats, Pollyanna and Summer Magic.
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- My Fair Lady
- A Series Of Unfortunate Events
- Nickelodeon (the Ryan O'Neal/Burt Reynolds film, not the television channel)
- Peter Pan, at least the parts not in Neverland (it was written during that era)
- The Magician's Nephew - at least the parts on Earth.
- Late Sherlock Holmes stories.
- The Wind In The Willows, both the original and most adaptations
- The fairly accurate Upstairs Downstairs, showing the lifestyles of both the well-to-do and the servant classes.
- The much less accurate Lillie and Duchess of Duke Street.
- The general setting of Edward Gorey's macabre illustrations.
- The Irish RM
- Charlotte "Charley" Pollard, a Doctor Who 8th Doctor audio companion, is a self-styled "Edwardian Adventuress", but is actually from 1930.
- And in the new series, the episodes Human Nature and The Family of Blood.
- "Horror of Fang Rock", which takes place pretty much entirely on a lighthouse.
- "Pyramids of Mars".
- Most of Somewhere In Time.
- Casualty 1906
