作者: Rosemary Ashton

This richly enjoyable biography of the great Victorian novelist reminds us how truly revolutionary was George Eliot… [Ashton] provides luminously sane readings of the marvellous novels.' A.N. …

Following the failure of the 1848 revolution a great many political refugees headed for England – the richly cosmopolitan hub of an Empire, and the commercial-industrial locus of the world. Among the …

This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including ninet …

One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World”One of the few English novels written for grown-up people’ Virginia Woolf George Eliot’s nuanced and moving novel is a masterly evocation of connec …

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth …

A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “The Great Stink” together While 1858 in London …

142 Strand was the home of the brilliant, unconventional young publisher John Chapman. All the daring and avant-garde writers and thinkers of Victorian London gathered here, among them Carlyle, Dicke …

They were the most remarkable couple in London: the great sage Carlyle, with his vehement prophecies, and his witty, sardonic wife Jane. It was a strong, close, mutually admiring yet often mutually a …

In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic seafaring career behi …