Victorians

Hazardous health conditions in Dickensian England led to meaningful governmental reform.

The parasitic quality of the Victorian artist’s illustrations was their greatest strength.

Confronting severe legal and social sanction, they sought to change the culture. A scholar and a novelist return us to a hinge of history.

How E. Nesbit used her grief, her politics, and her imagination to make a new kind of book for kids.

Many explanations have been offered for Spiritualism, but the movement was more than a fad.

Unlike her contemporaries George Eliot and the Brontë sisters, Gaskell was fiercely and explicitly concerned with the political issues of the present.

Wilde made clear that he wished to show not only the thrills and pleasures of a ruthlessly aesthetic life but also its limits and dangers.

How Thomas Hardy became everyone’s favorite misanthrope.

Maps and mortality in the time of cholera.