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Birch is serving as the General Editor of the 2012 edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. [4] She is the author of Our Victorian Education (2008), writes regularly for the TLS and the LRB, and contributes to arts programmes on radio and television. In December 2011, Birch was named as a member of the jury for the 2012 Man Booker ...
The Victorian Novel (Oxford History of English Literature, 1991) Hroncek, Susan. Strange Compositions: Chemistry and its Occult History in Victorian Speculative Fiction (2016) Hughes, Winifred, The Maniac in the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s (1981) Jones, Gregory. William Harry Rogers: Victorian Book Designer and Star of the Great ...
According to the legend, however, instead of going to some other country, they had all taken refuge in the subterranean caverns.” [6] This synthesis of folkloric and anthropological elements reflected a persistent evolutionary theory in contemporary Victorian society, which conflated mythological tales of fairies with folk memories of ...
Book Talk ‘The Musical Mozinskis’ explores family dynamics This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: ‘Of Hoaxes and Homicide’ is gripping Victorian mystery Show comments
The novel details the lives of two very opposite Victorian women, Agnes and Sugar, who revolve on the linchpin of William Rackham. He is the unwilling and somewhat bumbling heir to a perfume business, with moderate success and little self-awareness. He marries the exquisitely doll-like Agnes, even though he barely knew her.
By then, Mayflower had distributed 82,000 copies of the book, but it was Gold who was being tried, although Mayflower covered the legal costs. The trial took place in February 1964. The defence argued that Fanny Hill was a historical source book and that it was a joyful celebration of normal non-perverted sex—bawdy rather than pornographic ...
President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of tariffs. He followed through on that pledge within days of re-taking office, making many Americans concerned about their already-strained ...
Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham.Maugham exposes the misguided social snobbery levelled at the character Rosie Driffield, whose frankness, honesty, and sexual freedom make her a target of conservative opprobrium.