Victorian
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Too Bright to Belong: A Conversation with Clare Beams
Clare Beams discusses her debut novel, THE ILLNESS LESSON.
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Mixed Feelings: Happy Wife, Happy Life
Ending a relationship is hard, but it’s not as hard as quitting an institution. And the thing we often forget about marriage is that it is an institution.
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The Underdog Botanist
This, then, is the story of how one of Britain’s most promising, skilled explorers struggled to find a place in Victorian science, unable to shake his love for the underdogs of the plant world. The Public Domain Review shares the story…
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Charles Dickens is a Tattle-Tale
Get ready for the biggest piece of gossip to hit the Victorian litmag scene in 250 years. Lewis Carroll, Wilkie Collins, and Elizabeth Gaskell all wrote anonymously for Charles Dickens’s periodical—but that anonymity may have been short-lived. (Well, sort of.)…
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How Street Lights Changed Literature
The Public Domain Review looks at how the introduction of street lights in 17th-century London forever changed literature.
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A Comic History of Rome
The Public Domain Review takes a look at The Comic History of Rome, a book that satirized Roman history as well as Victorian society.
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Weekly Geekery
We have the technology, so where is the free time? Writing a better future. Women, the Internet and games. More corrosive than bleach, ammonia and your bathtub. The Internet goes back to the future. Keep your pants on, computers are…
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The Victorian MFA Debate
The next time you get into a debate over the value of a creative writing MFA, try this handy visualization exercise: imagine that everyone involved is wearing a monocle.
