I am currently reading Reid Badger’s biography of James Reese Europe, A Life in Ragtime, and popped over to YouTube to see if someone uploaded a recording of his band. According to Badger, Europe and his orchestra were the first black musicians to sign a major recording contract in 1913. They recorded three sessions (though the last was never released by Victor Records), and the “Castle House Rag”, which Europe wrote specifically for the Castles, was recorded and released in February of 1914.
Part one of the Bledington Park duology, about an American heiress and the duke whose heart she strives to conquer.
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The stunning conclusion to the Bledington Park series. When the Duke of Malvern is declared missing, presumed killed, Amanda, his estranged duchess, is his unlikely rescuer. But rescue him she does–and finds him broken and utterly changed by the war. As she takes charge of her amnesiac husband and the manor house that was never a home, she risks falling in love with him all over again.
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2nd edition of Pocket Guide to Edwardian England, newly revised and expanded.
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