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A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR 2012...
The VV wishes every one of her readers a Happy Christmas and glorious New Year.
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JEROME K JERMOME AND LONDON...
The VV does love the cover of Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K. Jerome which is written by Carolyn W. de la L.Oulton and published by Victorian Secrets.When most of us think of Jerome K....
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REMEMBER YOUR MORTALITY! THE ART OF MEMENTO MORI...
Curious Snake Exploring a Skull by Izumi Sukeyuki When visiting the 'Death' exhibition at The Wellcome Collection in London, the VV was fascinated to see the macabre use of human skulls in art.Above is...
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MY HERO ~ SIR RICHARD BURTON...
Sir Richard Francis Burton - Born March 19th 1821 – Died October 20th 1890. The VV must admit that she has long had something of a crush on Sir Richard Francis Burton, a notorious Victorian gentleman...
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THE LIBRARY OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY...
Of late the VV has been greatly amused while wondering through the virtual world of The Library of Nineteenth-Century Photography where a varied and astonishing range of Victorian photographs are...
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MR BRIGG'S HAT: A REVIEW BY D. E. MEREDITH...
A little while back the author D E Meredith wrote this guest blog for the Virtual Victorian which reviewed Mr Briggs' Hat by Kate Colquhoun - a review that the VV thought well worth repeating,...
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THE VICTORIAN ORIGINS OF THE IRISH NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD - BY D E MEREDITH
The Irish Potato Famine - 1847They are going, going, going from the valleys and the hills,They are leaving far behind them the heathery moor and mountain rills, All the wealth of hawthorn hedges where...
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THE MATCHMAKER QUEEN, DULEEP, AND GOWRAMMA...
The Princess Gowramma of Coorg: a steel engraving by Winterhalter and Grave In the Victorian era, with the expansion of the British Empire and the annexation of many states in India, several of the...
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TATTOOED - BY ROYAL APPOINTMENT...
Having last been seen in public in 1862, today a royal journal has been published online to mark the opening of an exhibition of Victorian photography which chronicles a tour made by the then Prince of...
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THE WONDROUS ALARM CLOCK BED...
One of the exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851 that caused the VV most amusement was the invention of an alarm clock bed created by Mr Theophilus Carter (the very same inventor and furniture...
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ARE YOU A WITCH OR ARE YOU A FAIRY? ARE YOU THE WIFE OF MICHAEL CLEARLY?...
A SAINT PATRICK'S DAY GUEST POST BY D. E. MEREDITH AUTHOR OF THE DEVIL'S RIBBONI can see my Grandad now, his hair like a lopsided thatch, leaning...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF EASTER EGGS...
The egg has long been a symbol of rebirth and fertility. Going back as far as thousands of years, a simple bird's egg might be given as a gift, often gaudily painted to celebrate the colours and...
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THE HALF A MILLION HITS GIVE AWAY...
As a special thank you to all followers of The Virtual Victorian, Essie Fox is giving away a personalised signed copy of The Somnambulist and also of Elijah's Mermaid.Please leave a comment in the box...
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ON VICTORIAN FICTION...
At the moment the VV is immersed in writing her third Victorian novel, so it seemed an appropriate time to post the following article which was first published a few months ago in the pages of Writing...
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SAINT GEORGE SLAYS THE DRAGON...
As this is the day of St George, the VV is posting this pencil drawing by Edward Burne-Jones, which was probably made around 1865 and which illustrates the saint conquering the dragon - perhaps a...
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THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT A FANCY DRESS PARTY...
There's something about a fancy dress party - and welcome to the VV's tonight. Do come on in and meet the guests. No doubt more will be coming later...Truly, the star of the evening is Prince Arthur -...
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BOOK REVIEW: CAPTURING THE LIGHT...
What the VV would have given to be able to read Capturing the Light when she was writing Elijah’s Mermaid in which a young man becomes obsessed with the Victorian art of photograpy. However, she did...
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OF THE LIKEABLEST AND LOVEABLEST...
IN 1881 the artist and critic Ruskin inaugurated the May Day ceremony at Whitelands College (a college that trained young women to teach for the most eminent society schools) where it was his wish...
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THE WORST NOVELIST IN HISTORY...
Amanda McKittrick Ros 1860-1939The worst novelist in history is how some have referred to an Irish Victorian writer by the name of Amanda McKittrick Ros. Of her contemporaries, Mark Twain was said to...
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MARY SEACOLE: GUEST POST BY HELEN RAPPAPORT...
In 2005 a mixed-race woman from Jamaica named Mary Seacole, who had died in obscurity in London in 1881, unexpectedly became the subject of widespread media attention in the year of the bi-centenary of...
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