Happy new year to all of our members! Just a reminder that there is still time to submit your ideas for blog posts for the Death and Mr Pickwick Page. If you are interested in being included in the blog, members can send short statements about their interests in Reynolds – this can be general … More REMINDER – Death and Mr Pickwick Submissions
In the spirit of the season, I decided to dedicate this blog post to exploring the Gothic in one of Reynolds’s lesser-known short stories, The Pixy, or the Unbaptised Child: A Christmas Story (1848). Written originally in 1848 and later published in Reynolds’s Miscellany in 1850, the story was published in the style of Charles … More The Pixy, or the Unbaptised child: A Christmas Story
To all our members and blog followers, have a very happy festive break. Warmest wishes, The Reynolds Society Board
*Update – an incorrect version of this post was emailed earlier. See below for the amended version. I am sure that some of you know that I am the author of the novel Death and Mr Pickwick, which tells the story behind the creation of The Pickwick Papers. In Death and Mr Pickwick, my original intention was to … More Death and Mr Pickwick
Sophie Raine (Lancaster University) I was first made aware of the George W M Reynolds Society at the RSPV conference at the University of Victoria this year. I was giving a paper on Reynolds’ use of classical imagery in his illustrations of nude models. One aspect of Reynolds’ work which I found particularly interesting, and … More Postgrads on Reynolds
By Stephen Basdeo When I was completing my undergraduate dissertation on Victorian crime and penny fiction, my supervisor, Prof. Heather Shore, suggested that I look up an author – then unknown to me – named George W. M. Reynolds and his novel entitled The Mysteries of London. In what some might call fate, two days later … More Discovering G. W. M. Reynolds
G. W. M. Reynolds Society 