by Speak Digital | Aug 30, 2019 | News
PATRONFaith Clarke ChairmanAndrew Gasson, 21 Huson Close, London NW3 3JW MembershipPaul Lewis, 4 Ernest Gardens, Chiswick, London W4 3QU NEW BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS FOR THE WCS HSBC have changed our WCS bank account details to the following: SORT CODE:401158 ACCOUNT...
by Speak Digital | Aug 29, 2019 | News
PATRONFaith Clarke ChairmanAndrew Gasson, 21 Huson Close, London NW3 3JW MembershipPaul Lewis, 4 Ernest Gardens, Chiswick, London W4 3QU THE WCS JOURNAL Members are reminded that the latest issue of the Wilkie Collins Journal, Volume 14, for 2017 is now online at...
by Speak Digital | Mar 18, 2019 | Reviews
Alyson Hunt No reader can have observed Count Fosco’s outrageously colourful waistcoats or Laura Fairlie’s penchant for delicate white dresses without interpreting some aspects of their character from the clothes that they wear. As Madeleine Seys engagingly points...
by Speak Digital | Mar 18, 2019 | Reviews
Lin Young J. Jeffrey Franklin’s book Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain (2018) examines the evolution of nonmainstream, alternative religious and spiritual belief through the lens of several literary...
by Speak Digital | Mar 18, 2019 | Reviews
Jayda Coons In the empirical nineteenth century, what could be made of reported prophetic, hallucinatory, and seemingly supernatural visions? Moreover, what do narrative accounts of these strange visions reveal about the nineteenth-century cultural imaginary? These...