# The Dream Kingdom

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- Book: [The Dream Kingdom](https://www.bookquiver.com/cynthia-harrod-eagles/the-dream-kingdom) ([The Dream Kingdom.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/cynthia-harrod-eagles/the-dream-kingdom.md))
- Authors: [Cynthia Harrod-Eagles](https://www.bookquiver.com/cynthia-harrod-eagles)
- Publisher: Sphere
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4813-313-0
- Published: 2011-08-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Edwardian England is a country at the peak of its power; a kingdom of peace, prosperity and progress. As Jessie and Violet enjoy their coming-out in the glittering Season of 1908, their thoughts are of pleasure, dancing and falling in love. For the Morlands things seem set fair: new business ventures expand their influence and wealth; there are weddings, babies in the nursery, careers for the boys now reaching manhood. It is an exciting age, with new technologies - motor cars, telephones, radio, aeroplanes - extending man's control over the natural world. But under the appearance of permanence, a different reality is stirring. Socialism, the suffrage movement, the constitutional crisis, all call forth ever more dissent and anger. Increasingly violent protests and strikes disturb the peace; war with Germany looms ever closer. With the King's death, it begins to seem that the safe Edwardian world was only a dream, from which the wakening will be hard indeed.