Netta Syrett novelist & playwright died #OTD 1943, her prizewinning play was said to be too realistic about women’s lives & received only one performance. Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives now available in US at pre-publication price @UChicagoPress tinyurl.com/mr7m2t2c promo code UCPNEW for 30% off. #DecadentWomen#Decadence#womenswriting#1890s#Victorian@genderhistory@histodons
George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. Seen by many as the forefather of modern #fantasy fiction, he was a huge influence on later writers including JRR #Tolkien & #CSLewis
“The sheer imaginative force of LILITH makes nonsense of our everyday notions of ‘good writing’. MacDonald aims not to make us read, but to make us dream”
David Melville Wingrove on LILITH, MacDonald’s last – & very strange – major work
RETHINKING GEORGE MACDONALD: 16 essays on MacDonald’s place in the #Victorian literary scene, his engagement with the works of his contemporaries, & his interest in the social, political, & theological movements of his age – also online via Project MUSE
“What sprang forth from Carlyle’s pen was not a dry account of the French Revolution, but a book brimming with passion and philosophy, one that offered a new style of storytelling that influenced a generation of Victorian writers.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was born #OTD, 4 Dec. His THE FRENCH REVOLUTION established him as one of the most important social & cultural commentators of his day
Gothic Warnings: Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Dracula, & the Anthropocene
29 Nov, University of Aberdeen, & online. Free
Dr Emily Alder reconsiders these famous #Gothic works in light of the #Anthropocene, a concept used to describe the impact of human activities on Earth systems & in which the #Victorian period is deeply implicated