I can hardly believe it, but I’ve now been running this blog on nineteenth-century literature and culture for over a decade! The blog has ch...

One of the coolest experiences I’ve had since the release of my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress , was when I was asked to write an introducti...

  'Brontë's Mistress - a talk by Finola Austin from Gaskell Society on Vimeo .

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...

With my own Bronte-inspired novel, Bronte’s Mistress , coming out in just (!) three months (August 2020) from Atria Books, I was so excited...

I don’t usually include spoilers in my reviews, but The Poor Clare is obscure enough that in today’s post I’ll be throwing caut...

I’ve been blogging as the Secret Victorianist since 2013, sharing my love of all things nineteenth-century literature and cultur...

As part of my Neo-Victorian Voices series I’ve been reading a fair few novels set in the nineteenth century but written in the twenty-first...

You know the title. But do you know the subtitle ?

Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Bront ë , published in 1857, two years after its subject’s death, is the kind of text that today ...