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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.
Six (free!) Dark Fantasy Novellas for Halloween from Tor.com
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Six (free!) Dark Fantasy Novellas for Halloween from Tor.com

Posted on October 3, 2019by Rosalind White

1. Red as Blood and White as Bone by Theodora Goss A dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with fairy…

Affective Accretion: Reconciling the Material and the Emotional in Studies of the Victorian Era
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Affective Accretion: Reconciling the Material and the Emotional in Studies of the Victorian Era

Posted on August 12, 2019by Rosalind White

How do we approach an age that, increasingly, feels unanchored from our emotional present? Why do the outsized passions and…

“What of her glass without her?” Prismatic Desire & Auto-Erotic Anxiety in the Art & Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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“What of her glass without her?” Prismatic Desire & Auto-Erotic Anxiety in the Art & Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Posted on May 22, 2019by Rosalind White

Do check out my article in the latest issue of the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies – “What of Her Glass…

Samantha Evans’ Darwin & Women
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Samantha Evans’ Darwin & Women

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

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

Posted 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
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The Victorian Kindle: Schloss’s Bijou Almanac

Posted 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’
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‘The Entomologist’s Dream’

Posted 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
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Mr Micawber the Hermit Crab

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

Posted 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….

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