Category Archives: victorian literature
How to Read a Victorian Novel
a somewhat tongue-in-cheek contribution to the How-To Issue Tumblr First of all, don’t listen to anyone who tells you not to. Middlemarch “kills book clubs”? Please! Unlike some highly-regarded classics, these novels were written to be read–by all of us. But you do need to be properly equipped. Bring both your head and your heart: [...]
J. S. Mill: "Victorian Firebrand"
In the Times, Jane O’Grady reviews Richard Reeves’s new biography of J.S. Mill: This biography dispassionately presents the richness and contradictoriness of Mill’s theories, and skilfully shows the way in which his integrity forced him to modify them in the light of his experience. Unlike most pontificaters on justice, Mill actually lived what he preached. [...]
Carlyle Letters Online
A fabulous new resource has just been opened up online by Duke University Press: the letters of Jane and Thomas Carlyle. I’ve only peered around briefly, but the site is very attractive and seems easy to use. More to the point, it gives us easy access to all kinds of gems, such as this one, [...]
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