Provided that you were sufficiently wealthy, in possession of a proper pedigree, and on intimate terms with all the right people, you could pretty much live a life of complete and utter ease as an Edwardian Lady. If you were married, your breakfast would be brought to you in bed, your lady's maid would come in to dress you, or bathe you, or both; to do your hair into any elaborate fashion you desired. You might spend your mornings writing letters to your friends (we call this texting today), you might do some needlepoint, play for a bit on the pianoforte. Then time to change into riding gear and perhaps a different hair do for going along on a ‘hunt’, where the men enjoyed shooting their guns and the hounds did most of the actual hunting. You might
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