Welcome back to my long-running Neo-Victorian Voices series , in which I review books set in the nineteenth century but published in the twe...

Welcome back to the Secret Victorianst for a different sort of blog today—an interview with fellow historical novelist, Hope C. Tarr. You mi...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Austenites never tire of new takes on Pride and Prejudice (1813), so last month I joined JASNA ...

Gina Marie Guadagnino’s 2019 The Parting Glass has many of the elements I love to see in books I review for my Neo-Victorian Voices series ...

I’m all for authors writing about things outside their realm of direct experience (after all, I am a writer of historical fiction !), but it...

How, just how , has it been nine years since I last reviewed an experimental production based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wond...

I’ve written about ballet through a Victorianist’s lens quite a few times over the course of the last nine years on this blog, but, thanks p...

Andrew Haswell Green (1821-1903) is the greatest New Yorker you might never have heard of. Often referred to as the “Father of Greater New Y...

William Dean Howells’s 1889 A Hazard of New Fortunes is the sort of nineteenth-century novel that remembers it has a plot halfway through. ...

Kate Belli takes us back to 1880s New York in the first instalment of her Gilded Gotham mystery series. Reporter Genevieve Stewart, a jilted...

One of the questions I’m asked most frequently, as a published novelist with a demanding day job, is how I have time to write. I very much a...

One of the only good things about your debut novel coming out in the midst of a global pandemic is that virtual events are more inclusive ev...

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...