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The Edwardian age stands in a pivotal position between the ninetheenth century and the twentieth. Professor Hynes sees the brief stretch of history between the death of Quen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War not as a golden age but as a time of waiting, a time of anxieties, a time of conflict between the old and new. A growing awareness of social problems resulted not in action but in worry, not in solutions but in feelings and in turmoil--turmoil out of which contemporary England was born.

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