ristocratic and upper-middle-class women in English social and political life from 1901-1914. While the primary focus of the author is social history, the changing roles of both women and the aristocracy in England during the Edwardian period (1901-1914) provides valuable material for the framework within which to investigate the changing role of jewelry in aristocratic life during the Edwardian period.
9. Cannadine, D. The Decline of the British Aristocracy. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1990.
The decline of the aristocracy in Britain began in the last years of the nineteenth century and accelerated in the Edwardian period (1901-1914). As money surpassed land ownership as the mark of power in Britain, many aristocrats used art, such as jewelry, as a badge of power. This work is highly useful for the proposed investigation of the use of jewelry by aristocrats in Edwardian England.
10. Carroll, D. L. European and American Jewelry of the Nineteenth Century. Newark, New Jersey: Newark Museum Association, 1968.
While the primary focus of this work is on jewel
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