Realism is as synonymous with nineteenth century-set novels as petticoats and corsets, but Virginia Feito’s 2025 Victorian Psycho isn’t a “...

You might be surprised that my review of Rachel Cantor’s 2023 novel Half-Life of a Stolen Sister , a retelling of the Bronte siblings’ lives...

As the author of a novel inspired by the scandalous lives of the Bronte siblings ( Bronte’s Mistress ), I’ve fielded a lot of questions rece...

I was working at digital media company Refinery29 when I first encountered Michael Stewart. The ARC (advance reader copy) of his 2018 novel,...

 

Around this time a year ago, I published a retrospect on my 2020 reading . Now I’m back, a year on, with a similar post, looking back on the...

 

Happy Halloween, everyone! Today’s festivities have put me in a macabre and morbid mood so for today’s blog post, I’m running through some o...

I’m something of a Bronte fanatic. After all, my own debut novel ( Bronte’s Mistress ) was inspired by a real-life scandal that rocked liter...

 

For the last few months, thanks to the release of my first novel, Bronte’s Mistress , I’ve been cheating on my Secret Victorianist blog by w...

You may know me as the author of Bronte’s Mistress , but, when I’m not writing my own books, I’m reading other people’s. For five and a half...

When it comes to Jane Austen vs. the Brontes , Austen definitely has a winning number of twenty-first century novels that take her life and ...

 

I can hardly believe it. The launch of my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress , is now only a month away! The book, as the title might suggest, i...

It’s now a little over a month until my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress , meets the world, and, between articles, podcasts and planned events...