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Showing posts with label Classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classics. Show all posts
Friday, 13 November 2020

Review: Cousin Phillis, Elizabeth Gaskell (1864)

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After months of blog posts dedicated to Neo-Victorian fiction and the publication of my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress , I’m back with a re...
Saturday, 26 October 2019

Neo-Victorian Voices: The Lost History of Dreams, Kris Waldherr (2019)

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The latest novel I’m reviewing as part of my Neo-Victorian Voices series , on works of fiction set in the nineteenth cent...
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Sunday, 19 July 2015

Art Review: J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free, De Young Museum, San Francisco

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This week, the Secret Victorianist was in San Francisco and took the opportunity to see J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free , the first major ...
Sunday, 22 March 2015

Art Review: Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School, L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

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The other week, the Secret Victorianist left behind the cold of New York to visit the West Coast of the US for the first time. Although muc...
Sunday, 29 June 2014

A Victorian Alphabet: S is for Swinburne, Sappho and Sadomasochism

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Matthew Arnold criticised Algernon Charles Swinburne for his ‘fatal habit of using one hundred words when one would suffice’. So it i...
Wednesday, 28 May 2014

A Victorian Alphabet: R is for Rome

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The Secret Victorianist was in Rome last week to visit the same sites admired by Byron and Shelley, but it was the reaction of a fict...