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The ship of dreams, the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era, Gareth Russell

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The ship of dreams, the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era, Gareth Russell

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Main title

The ship of dreams

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bibliography

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Gareth Russell

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the sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era

Summary

Had she survived her first voyage, The Titanic probably would have dated like other ocean liners. Instead, within a week of setting sail on 10th April 1912, the disaster of her sinking had turned her into one of the biggest news stories of the century. Writing in his signature prose, Gareth Russell peers through the portholes of six first-class travellers to immerse us into the Edwardian era while demonstrating how modernity shook up the class system of the age. Lucy Leslie, Countess of Rothes; "son" of the British Empire, Tommy Andrews; captain of the industry John Thayer and his son Jack; Jewish immigrant Ida Straus; and model and movie star Dorothy Gibson. Each subject's unique story offers insights into the established hierarchy during the fin de siecle of pre-war Britain and America, the Titanic's respective spiritual and economic homelands. Through these entwining lives, Russell investigates social class - its mores, its foibles, its accents, its etiquette, its benefits, its casual or intentional cruelties, its potential nobility. Those nuances also invite analyses of the shipping trade, the birth of the movie industry, the aristocracy, the American Gilded Age, the Irish Home Rule crisis, and Jewish-American communities

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Sinking of the Titanic and the end of the Edwardian era

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