All guests are encouraged to attend as favorite personages, either historical or fictional, from the late 19th or early 20th century, in corresponding attire. 

Suggested Possibilites

Lady Astor

Lady Bracknell

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Winston Churchill

Mr and Mrs George Darling

Charles Dodgson

Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir William S Gilbert

Professor Henry Higgins and Miss Eliza Dolittle

Sherlock Holmes

Sir Henry Irving and Dame Ellen Terry

Rydyard Kipling

Dr David Livingston

Mr Algenon Moncrieff and Miss Cecily Cardew

Rev Harold and Stefanie Pinker

Alan Quatermain

George Bernard Shaw

Sir Henry Morton Stanley and Dorothy Tennant

Robert Lewis Stevenson

Lord Alfred and Lady Emily Tennyson

Anthony Trollop

Dr John Watson

H. G Wells and Rebecca West

Bertram Wilberforce Wooster

Mr John Worthing, J. P., and Miss Gwendolen Fairfax