A review by bookwormmichelle
The Edwardian Lady: The Story of Edith Holden by Ina Taylor

3.0

Well, I thought I'd really like this, but it was a little dull and there were lots of things the author didn't address. It may be that there was just no information available, but I at least hoped for speculation. How did she die? How did her brother Kenneth die? This was kind of a "surface only" sort of book. Its redeeming quality was the artwork and photographs reproduced in the pages. I had not known just how much art training Holden had had; she had attended art school in Birmingham since childhood and exhibited pictures regularly at exhibits there and at the Royal Academy in London; this was not just a typical upper class woman who happened to keep a nature journal. She was a trained artist. It makes my failure to make my nature journal look like hers a bit easier to swallow. :-)