by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
“I was alone with him, Marian—his cruel hand was bruising my arm—what could I do?” “Is the mark on your arm still? Let me see it.” “Why do you want to see it? “I want to see it, Laura, because our endurance must end, and our resistance must begin today. That mark is a...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Based on a doctoral thesis at the University of Sheffield supervised by Sally Shuttleworth, with Jenny Bourne Taylor as external examiner, Violent Women and Sensation Fiction is the first monograph by Andrew Mangham, who has recently taken up a tenured position at...
by wilkieco | Jun 6, 2013 | Reviews
The cliché of the female musician in the Victorian drawing-room is epitomized by William Orchardson’s painting, Her Mother’s Voice, with its pensive father, pausing from his newspaper to listen as his daughter plays the piano and sings to her lover. The role of...
