Cast of Characters
The period of time from the mid-1900’s until the 1930’s was a time of unprecedented change in Britain. The devastation of The Great War, mass emigration to America and Canada, rapid social changes – not least votes for women –- to be followed by the Roaring Twenties, the General Strike and the Depression. It was a time of burgeoning artistic expression, with the movements that we now know as Art Noveau and Art Deco demonstrating a dramatic departure from the Victorian age.
The Great War demanded that there was hardly a field of endeavor that women did not move into to release the men for the battlefield. The first women joined the police force, and it was also during these first decades of the century that scientific methods of detection were being rapidly developed. From medicine to international travel to the study of the human mind, all benefited from a time that was both terrifyingly painful in terms of the cost to human life, and yet demonstrated a hunger for innovation and a fascination with the avant-garde.
It is in this world that Maisie Dobbs came of age. Come back to this page for more stories about the 1910’s, 20’s and 30’s, and immerse yourself in the world of Maisie Dobbs. |
