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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…

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,…

‘The Entomologist’s Dream’

‘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…

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

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….

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

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

Posted 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…

The Secret Art of Victorian Fore-edge Painting

The Secret Art of Victorian Fore-edge Painting

Posted on September 27, 2016by Rosalind White

  They say that beauty is everywhere, often hidden in plain sight. In the case of the lost art of…

Defining Curiosity in the Victorian Era

Defining Curiosity in the Victorian Era

Posted on September 3, 2016by Rosalind White

What is curiosity? Does it change according to the ebbs and flows of time? While today we might associate it with…

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