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Rossetti, Christina

Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Christina Rossetti Introduction Christina Georgina Rossetti (b. 1830–d. 1894) was a major Victorian poet, arguably the best of the Pre-Raphaelite...

Ruskin, John

Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

John Ruskin Introduction Best known as a theorist, critic, and historian of visual culture, John Ruskin (1819–1900) wrote prolifically and infl...

Science

Alice Jenkins

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Science Introduction The study of literature and science does more than trace the “literature in science” and the “science in literature.” It pro...

Sentimentality

Kirstie Blair, Eliza O'Brien

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Sentimentality Introduction The nature and status of sentimentality is widely contested, though most critics would agree that the adjective “sent...

Sexuality

Pamela K. Gilbert

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Sexuality Introduction One challenge for a scholar working in this field is to know exactly what the field is. Once past the question of reproduc...

Sincerity

Anna Barton

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Sincerity Introduction Sincerity is a term that is associated both with Victorian formulations of cultural and moral value and with 20th- and 21st-c...

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Glenda Norquay

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2012-11-21

Robert Louis Stevenson Introduction Robert Louis Stevenson (b. 1850–d. 1894) was born in Scotland and died in Samoa at the end of a life of tr...

Swinburne, A.C.

Rikky Rooksby

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2012-03-23

A. C. Swinburne Introduction Algernon Charles Swinburne (b. 1837–d. 1909) was a major Victorian poet and critic, as well as a central figure ...

Symonds, John Addington

Howard J. Booth

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2012-09-20

John Addington Symonds Introduction John Addington Symonds (b. 1840–d. 1893) is now best known as the earliest significant writer on homosexua...

Technology

Tamara Ketabgian

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Technology Introduction The Victorian era was a remarkably fertile period for the adoption, expansion, and transformation of technology. Photogra...

Tennyson, Alfred

Samantha Matthews

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Alfred Tennyson Introduction Alfred, Lord Tennyson (b. 1809–d. 1892) was born in Lincolnshire, the fourth child of a well-educated but volatile c...

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Melissa Raines

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2012-04-24

William Makepeace Thackery Introduction William Makepeace Thackeray (b. 18 July 1811–d. 23 December 1863) was born in Calcutta, India, the only...

Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth

Ella Dzelzainis

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna Introduction Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (b. 1790–d. 1846) was an indefatigable journalist and editor; political and religio...

Travel Writing

Muireann O’Cinneide

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2012-11-21

Travel Writing Introduction Fueled by transport improvements and expanding British global influence, Victorian travel writing emerged in the p...

Trollope, Anthony

Melissa Raines

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Anthony Trollope IntroductionAnthony Trollope (b. 24 April 1815–d. 6 December 1882) was a successful Victorian novelist and one of the most prolific...

Trollope, Frances

Elsie B. Michie

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2012-04-24

Frances Trollope Introduction Readers typically know Frances Milton Trollope (b. 1779–d. 1863) for her best-selling first book, the scathingly ...

Ward, Mary

Diana Powell

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Mary Ward Introduction Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry) Ward (b. 1851–d. 1920) was a novelist, critic, education pioneer, antisuffrage campaigner, and...

Webster, Julia Augusta

Patricia Rigg

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2012-02-06

Julia Augusta Webster Introduction Born in 1837, Webster was a prolific writer in every genre, a self-educated classical scholar, a professiona...

Wells, H. G.

Martin Willis

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2012-04-24

H. G. Wells Introduction H. G. Wells (b. 1866–d. 1946) was one of the most important and productive writers of the last century. His work is pa...

Wood, Ellen (Mrs. Henry Wood)

Andrew Scott Mangham

Subject: Victorian Literature »

Date Added: 2011-03-02

Ellen Wood (Mrs. Henry Wood) Introduction Ellen (Mrs. Henry) Wood (b. 1814–d. 1887) was one of the best-selling British novelists of the 19th cen...

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