Feb 28, 2019
Born in Upton-on-Severn, Worcs.#OTD 1854, Margaret Harkness wrote a series of slum novels under the pseudonym “John Law” – feminist, socialist/ both? Also wrote about her time in #India (friend of Annie Besant). From @VictorianWeb
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Born in Upton-on-Severn, Worcs.#OTD 1854, Margaret Harkness wrote a series of slum novels under the pseudonym “John Law” – feminist, socialist/ both? Also wrote about her time in #India (friend of Annie Besant). From @VictorianWeb
Love's Golden Dream illustration by Jessie M. King (1875-1949) for “Seven Happy Days” in the Christmnas Supplement to Source The Studio, 1913, reproduced in Euler, The Glasgow Style. Victorian Web
Listen up, gentle followers and fellow nerds, I'm writing this post from an iPad so I can't make the links pretty or insert cropped images of William Morris textiles (I might edit this later to do just that), but I finished my first class of Arthur Throughout the Ages. My professor is starting with the Victorian version of Arthur and then going back in time and study. In order to start us off, she introduced us briefly to Victorian social tensions and the reasoning behind their aesthetics and obsession choices. Short version, she provided us with this website and it's great so I'm sharing (it's caring). The big link above is the homepage. Long version, the Victorians were into Medievalism. Basically, going back to and glorifying England's medieval roots made them feel proud and ENGLISH blah blah nationalism and also pushed against industrialism because cities and work-houses were gross, let's make material items with our hands like artisans. The revival of an idealized version of the Middle Ages is seen through their art. For example, the art style of illustrations from Kelmscott Press very much imitated medieval illuminated manuscripts. [Victorian Web link about this: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/morris/kelmscott.html ] A lot of the illustration and aesthetics I love and feature on this blog comes out of this movement and social/political commentary. So here are some more pages from the site about their history and context. Relevant Links From the Website About Medievalism/Illustration: 1. Page on Victorian Design and Medieval Revivalism ( http://www.victorianweb.org/art/design/armor.html ) 2. Link Page to Sources About the Pre-Raphaelites ( http://www.victorianweb.org/painting/prb/index.html ) 3. Book Illustration Links ( http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/index.html ) Other Relevant to this Blog Victorian Web Links: 1. Victorian Literary Genre, Mode, Style Links ( http://www.victorianweb.org/genre/index.html ) 2. Links to Authors Discussed on Victorian Web ( http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/index.html ) That's it for now. Fair warning, I'll probably be excited about this all week.
Victorian Network is an online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best work in Victorian Studies by postgraduate students and early career academics. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the journal is guest-edited by established scholars in the field and peer-reviewed by doctoral students. Themed issues are published bi-annually.
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Yeah, "the Internet will be the death of True Scholarship." Right, by side-stepping hard-copy publication costs and allowing open access by anyone, and creating places where younger scholars can actually establish themselves and review their peers. Right.
Don't miss their journal's first issue, "Victorian Dirt":
We are inviting submissions of no more than 7,000 words, on any aspect of the theme. Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to, any of the following:
Dirt in industrial processes and products: coal, smog, smoke or ashes.
Dirty money: blackmail and corruption; smuggling; the sex trade.
Filth: scandal, gossip, obscenity and pornography.
Disgust and horror; dirt and the Gothic; dirt and the atavistic or bestial; dirt in the laboratory.
The earth: dirt as life source; dirt as land; possession; burial ground and charnel house.
Roads, woodlands, waysides and canals.
Ashes to ashes: dirt and putrefaction; decay; decomposition and death.
Dirt and disease: overcrowding, sanitation; refuge, dust and disposal; the relationship between dirt and poverty.
Washing, cleanliness, purification; moral and physical dirt.
Housework and domestic service
The use of dirt in racialised imagery; dirt and the exotic; dirt and the colonial mission.
The dirty body; sweat, grime, and other fluids; eroticised dirt.
How can I not love this journal?
