Dietary Didacticism in Wonderland
[NB: I wrote this piece for the Journal of Victorian Culture Online for ‘Alice’ Day who have kindly agreed that…
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Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies and The Origins Debate.
Linley Sambourne’s cartoon ‘Man is but a Worm’, appearing in Punch in 1882 in depicts the evolution of man; from…
The Strange Story of Anna Kingsford
[ illustrations ‘Cold Wind’ & ‘Fake it till you make it’ by Rovina Cai] As the only Victorian medical student at…
Alice Through the Magnifying Glass, Visual and Verbal Interplay in Wonderland
What is the use of a book,’ thought Alice, ‘without pictures or conversation?’ At the start of Alice’s Adventures in…
Georgiana Houghton, the Victorian Artist who Channeled the Spirits of the Dead
Georgiana Houghton was a spiritualist medium who was trained in classical art but gave up painting after the death…
Mesmerism, Madness and Witchcraft in Jane Eyre
After first meeting Jane, Rochester furthers their relationship by masquerading as a gypsy to discover her true impressions of him. His voice ‘wraps’ her…