by Speak Digital | Mar 18, 2019 | Articles
Ellen Stockstill Periodical Pedagogy and Wilkie Collins In this essay, I demonstrate the impact of teaching Victorian popular journalism alongside serialized fiction in introducing students to the conventions of Victorian writing, reading, and publishing. While other...
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Julia Podziewska This article locates the vestry episodes section of The Woman in White (1860) within the historicised context of the weeklies the Leader and Household Words to illuminate how, and the degree to which, Collins reshaped journalistic material to rework...
by Speak Digital | Mar 18, 2019 | Articles
Kaari Newman On your first reading of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd (1863), you may come away feeling betrayed. Throughout the novel, Braddon carefully constructs Aurora Floyd as an independent, active young woman who routinely defies the strictures of...
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Carole O’Reilly In 1869, a Manchester journalist, Mr Townsend, wrote to John Howard Nodal, the editor of the Manchester City News (1864-1934), asking for help in finding a job. “The literary world,” he wrote, “seems to me like a ballroom. You can’t get into any dance...
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A. Luxx Mishou Jack the Ripper was not England’s first serial killer, this title is often attributed to Mary Ann Cotton, who was executed in 1873 for poisoning over a dozen people (Flanders 415).[i] Jack the Ripper was not the only Victorian serial killer to target...
