Mot-clé Edwardian Era

Angleterre, 1905. Angel Deverell, jeune écrivain prodige, connaît une ascension fulgurante, réalise ainsi le rêve de toute jeune fille : succès, gloire, amour. Mais n'est-ce pas trop pour une seule femme ?

Printemps 1914. Jeune femme féministe à l'esprit frondeur, Vera Brittain est résolue à passer les examens d'admission à Oxford, malgré l'hostilité de ses parents particulièrement conservateurs. Décidée à devenir écrivain, elle est encouragée et soutenue par son frère et sa bande d'amis – et notamment par le brillant Roland Leighton dont elle s’éprend. Mais les rêves de Vera se brisent au moment où l'Angleterre entre en guerre et où tous les jeunes hommes s'engagent dans l'armée. Elle renonce alors à écrire pour devenir infirmière. Tandis que la jeune femme se rapproche de plus en plus du front, elle assiste avec désespoir à l’effondrement de son monde.

Tide of Life follows the fortunes of young housekeeper, Emily Kennedy, as she learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work as housekeeper for farmer, Larry Birch. Another tragedy occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.

An extraordinary variety of writers, who often suffered terrible adversity throughout their lives, created wonderful places full of happiness in which children lived far from the sorrows of adult life.

Edwardian Farm is an historical documentary TV series in twelve parts, first shown on BBC Two from November 2010 to January 2011. It depicts a group of historians trying to run a farm like it was done during the Edwardian era. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television and filmed at Morwellham Quay, an historic quay in Devon. The farming team was historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn. The series was devised and produced by David Upshal and directed by Stuart Elliott. The series is a development from two previous series Victorian Farm and Victorian Pharmacy which were among BBC Two's biggest hits of 2009 and 2010, garnering audiences of up to 3.8 million per episode. The series was followed by Wartime Farm in September 2012, featuring the same team but this time in Hampshire on Manor Farm, living a full calendar year as wartime farmers. An associated book by Goodman, Langlands, and Ginn, also titled Edwardian Farm, was published in 2010 by BBC Books. The series was also published on DVD, available in various regional formats.