‘I had no escape from it. I loved an animalcule:’ Romance Through the Microscope
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…
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…
The orchid mantis, (Hymenopus coronatus) is renowned for its visual resemblance to an orchid in bloom. Its pink heart-shaped mid-and hind-legs…
Throughout the nineteenth-century the mania for seashells steadily swelled; they featured on Christmas cards, and adorned countless keepsakes, jewellery, and furniture….
The fairy was often thought of as a mode of rebellion against the exactitude of science and technology. This is…
I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and…
They say that beauty is everywhere, often hidden in plain sight. In the case of the lost art of…
What is curiosity? Does it change according to the ebbs and flows of time? While today we might associate it with…
An eager student of both the arts and the sciences Beatrix Potter’s childhood was equally enchanted by the discovery of…
NB: For more on Charles Darwin’s outlook on human emotion see the article that prompted this post Thomas Dixon’s piece…
[NB: I wrote this piece for the Journal of Victorian Culture Online for ‘Alice’ Day who have kindly agreed that…