Welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series , focused on books set in the nineteenth century, but written in the twenty-first. Today, I’m...

The latest title I’m reviewing as part of Neo-Victorian Voices series , covering novels set in the nineteenth century, but written in the tw...

Welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series , where I review books set in the nineteenth century but written in the twenty-first! Today’s...

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

It’s no secret that I love a book based on real Victorian scandals (after all, I did write a novel about the affair between Branwell Bronte ...

Welcome back to the Neo-Victorian Voices review series, covering novels set in the nineteenth century, but written in the twenty-first. Tod...

I very much enjoyed reviewing French Decadent writer Rachilde’s 1887’s The Marquise de Sade for this blog back in 2020, which was one reas...

I’ve previously reviewed Gustave Flaubert’s 1869 novel, A Sentimental Education , for this blog, but this month I’m back with a post about a...

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...

I know very little about nineteenth-century Japan, but I strongly identified with non-fiction writer Amy Stanley’s author note in her 2020 b...

Welcome back to the Secret Victorianist and my Neo-Victorian Voices series , where I write about books published in the twenty-first century...

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...

Welcome back to my Neo-Victorian Voices series , where I review books set in the nineteenth century, but written in the twenty-first. For th...

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

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

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 ...

Back in 2018, I reviewed Emma Donoghue’s 2016 nineteenth-century-Ireland-set novel, The Wonder , for this blog—check out my full review here...

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 imagine that many American readers will come to Karen Joy Fowler’s 2022 novel, Booth , with preconceptions about John Wilkes Booth (1838-1...

Welcome back to the Neo-Victorian Voices series , where I review books written in the twenty-first century, but set in the nineteenth. Today...