Historical fiction meets science fiction in the latest book I’m writing about as part of my Neo-Victorian Voices series , on novels written ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) is a staple nineteenth-century text for students of literature in the English-spe...

In my previous post I looked at strategies for reading when it comes to approaching a new novel for study, discussing note taking, no...

Along with Shakespeare, the Victorian novel is perhaps the greatest victim of the British schooling system. For many, the only nineteenth-c...

In an earlier post I dealt with some misconceptions people often have about nineteenth-century literature. And proving it’s not all frill...

This small collection of short stories, linked by their retelling at a dinner party gathered under gruesome circumstances, is an eerie read...

In a previous post  I took on the view that Victorian fiction is by default long and unwieldy by recommending some shorter works you might ...