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A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

A Past Most Queer: Remembering Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Radical Gay Historical Fiction

B. Pietras on Queering “Flint Anchor,” LGBTQ Historical Stories, and Finding the Present in the Past

By B. Pietras | June 10, 2025

In Praise of the Literary and Social Subversions of George Gissing’s <em>The Odd Women</em>

In Praise of the Literary and Social Subversions of George Gissing’s The Odd Women

Merve Emre and Adam Dalva in Conversation About a New Edition of a Victorian Classic

By Literary Hub | November 27, 2024

The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

John MacNeill Miller on Harriet Martineau’s Prescient Vision of Humanity

By John MacNeill Miller | September 25, 2024

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

Sophie Brickman on “Charlotte's Web,” JD Salinger, and Capturing Fainting from the Fainter’s Perspective

By Sophie Brickman | August 6, 2024

Erewhon: or, The Worst Possible Name for a Grocery Store

Erewhon: or, The Worst Possible Name for a Grocery Store

Sanibel Chai on the Connections Between Samuel Butler’s Satirical Novel and $19 Smoothies

By Sanibel | March 21, 2024

How the Victorians Created the Modern English Novel

How the Victorians Created the Modern English Novel

Katie Lumsden on the Enduring Tropes of an Era

By Katie Lumsden | March 2, 2023

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<em>No Name</em> by Wilkie Collins, Read by Nicholas Boulton and Cast

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Victorians were obsessed with the rumor that George Eliot had two different-sized hands.

Victorians were obsessed with the rumor that George Eliot had two different-sized hands.

By Olivia Rutigliano | May 20, 2020

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This is the weird horror novel that outsold Dracula in 1897.

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Michael Moorcock on H.G. Wells, Reluctant Prophet

Michael Moorcock on H.G. Wells, Reluctant Prophet

A Sci-Fi Master on the Cusp of Modernism

By Michael Moorcock | March 5, 2019

On the Obsessions of the Literary Biographer

On the Obsessions of the Literary Biographer

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By Lucasta Miller | March 5, 2019