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Author: Rosalind White

I am a first-year PhD student at Royal Holloway looking at gender & emotions in the science & literature of the nineteenth-century. My research looks at how natural history in many ways dwelt within the feminine sphere of Victorian culture. And charts a more intimate, personal exploration of natural history that examines the lives of its practitioners beyond the impact of conventional watersheds.
Samantha Evans’ Darwin & Women

Samantha Evans’ Darwin & Women

ReviewPosted on October 28, 2018by Rosalind White

The latest publication from the Darwin Correspondence Project, Darwin and Women, begins with its own taxonomic quandary. From the outset…

‘I had no escape from it. I loved an animalcule:’ Romance Through the Microscope

‘I had no escape from it. I loved an animalcule:’ Romance Through the Microscope

longer blog postsPosted on August 18, 2018by Rosalind White

Fitz-James O’Brien (1828-1862) was an Irish-American Civil War soldier and one of the forerunners of the Science-Fiction genre. His primary literary connection…

‘Walking into a living grave’: the Orchid Mantis & Alfred Russell Wallace

‘Walking into a living grave’: the Orchid Mantis & Alfred Russell Wallace

longer blog postsPosted on July 19, 2018by Rosalind White

The orchid mantis, (Hymenopus coronatus) is renowned for its visual resemblance to an orchid in bloom. Its pink heart-shaped mid-and hind-legs…

The Victorian Kindle:  Schloss’s Bijou Almanac

The Victorian Kindle: Schloss’s Bijou Almanac

interesting titbitsPosted on June 9, 2018by Rosalind White

‪In the mid nineteenth-century no handbag was complete without a Schloss Bijou Almanac. Anticipating the portability of kindles and tablets,…

‘The Entomologist’s Dream’

‘The Entomologist’s Dream’

musingsPosted on May 21, 2018by Rosalind White

In The Entomologist’s Dream (1909) by Edmund Dulac an entomologist – in a state of near collapse – bears witness to…

Mr Micawber the Hermit Crab

Mr Micawber the Hermit Crab

interesting titbitsPosted on March 11, 2018by Rosalind White

Welcome poverty!..Welcome misery, welcome houselessness, welcome hunger, rags, tempest, and beggary! Mutual confidence will sustain us to the end! –…

How the Victorian Craze for Conchology became a Billion-dollar Business

How the Victorian Craze for Conchology became a Billion-dollar Business

longer blog postsPosted on February 28, 2018by Rosalind White

Throughout the nineteenth-century the mania for seashells steadily swelled; they featured on Christmas cards, and adorned countless keepsakes, jewellery, and furniture….

The Little King of Serpents: A Basilisk in the Archives

The Little King of Serpents: A Basilisk in the Archives

interesting titbitsPosted on December 6, 2017by Rosalind White

I stumbled upon these plates from a gorgeous book entitled An Essay Towards a Natural History of Serpents (1742) and had to share…

Wistful Imaginings: Reframing the Case of the Cottingley Fairies

Wistful Imaginings: Reframing the Case of the Cottingley Fairies

longer blog postsPosted on November 30, 2017by Rosalind White

The fairy was often thought of as a mode of rebellion against the exactitude of science and technology. This is…

This particular web: a week with George Eliot at Dickens Universe 2017

This particular web: a week with George Eliot at Dickens Universe 2017

longer blog postsPosted on September 5, 2017by Rosalind White

I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and…

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