by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
When Margaret Oliphant reviewed The Woman in White in 1862, she described Count Fosco partly in terms of what she perceived to be his Italianate character: No villain of the century, so far as we are aware, comes within a hundred miles of him: he is more real, more...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (1860) and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862) are two sensation novels that connect the power and identity of their heroines to music. ((This research has been partially funded by the Overseas...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
The cinema, then, aims at transforming the agitated witness into a conscious observer. Nothing could be more legitimate than its lack of inhibitions in picturing spectacles which upset the mind. Thus it keeps us from shutting our eyes to the “blind drive of...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
In 1885 the Reverend Samuel Charlesworth produced a book for private circulation, entitled Sensational Religion. The book was written in response to his daughter marrying one of the Booth children and becoming a Salvation Army officer. Charlesworth’s experience of the...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
Fred Fargus joined the family auctioneering business in Bristol as a junior partner at the age of 20 on his father’s premature death in 1868, but decided to sell up when his uncle retired in the summer of 1884. ((For a brief biography of Fargus more detailed and...
