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Pre-Raphaelites in the Spirit World: The Séance Diary of William Michael Rossetti 

Pre-Raphaelites in the Spirit World: The Séance Diary of William Michael Rossetti 

Posted on April 14, 2022by Rosalind White

In 2021 I co-wrote Pre-Raphaelites in the Spirit World alongside Professor Barrie Bullen and Lenore Beaky. This fascinating project entailed transcribing, contextualising…

Joining the CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context) team!

Joining the CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context) team!

Posted on April 14, 2022by Rosalind White

Happy to share that I’m taking on the role of editor for the CLiC Fiction Blog (as Research Fellow at…

‘I know no speck so troublesome as self’: Finding Middlemarch through Corpus Linguistics

‘I know no speck so troublesome as self’: Finding Middlemarch through Corpus Linguistics

Posted on April 14, 2022by Rosalind White

In this blog post, for CLiC Fiction I explore how corpus linguistic tools can be used to illuminate the semantic…

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

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

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

“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

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

‘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

‘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

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,…

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