by Speak Digital | Oct 19, 2018 | Articles
Steven Mollmann, University of Tampa The real nineteenth century was replete with women of science. From Mary Anning, the legendary fossil finder, to Hertha Marks Ayrton, the suffragist and electrical engineer, the role of women in the actual science of...
by Speak Digital | Oct 19, 2018 | Articles
Catherine Quirk, McGill University In the dedicatory letter attached to his 1852 novel, Basil, Wilkie Collins asserts, ‘the Novel and the Play are twin-sisters in the family of Fiction’ (4). Collins often exploits this close relationship of page and stage, using the...
by Speak Digital | Oct 19, 2018 | Articles
Esther Godfrey The extreme youth of the junior portion of the ‘street-walkers’ is a remarkable feature of London prostitution, and has been the subject of much comment by foreign travellers who have published their impressions of social London. Certain portions of the...
by Speak Digital | Oct 19, 2018 | Articles
Erika Behrisch Elce Department of English, Royal Military College of Canada Drs Moreau and Benjulia, the experimental physiologists of H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) and Wilkie Collins’ Heart and Science (1883), push the moral boundaries of...
by Speak Digital | Oct 19, 2018 | Articles
Beth Leonardo Silva The sisterly pairs of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White (1860) and No Name (1862) are sensational in every sense of the word. Thrust into horrific circumstances, The Woman in White’s Marian Halcombe and Laura Fairlie and No Name’s Magdalen...
