Envy is a miserable emotion. It sucks us out of our lives depositing us in a bleak terrain where we are so focused on what we don’t have that we forget about all that we do.

The peek into turn-of-the-century Edwardian life—a life so radically different from our current age—is mesmerizing. I could say that I am ensorcelled by all of the above, but it’s more than that, I fear.