by Mary L Shannon I’ve been intrigued by Reynolds’s Paris office ever since I started researching his London office for my book Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street (2015). If Reynolds’s London office was located within a significant hub for metropolitan theatre, journalism, and publishing, I wondered, … More Reynolds and Rue Neuve-Saint-Augustine, Paris
By Dr. Stephen Carver, Literary Historian As a child, I possessed a morbid passion for nineteenth century gothic literature. I had inherited this trait from my mother, a Catholic turned Spiritualist with a taste for true crime and horror film and fiction. My parents had me late in life and my grandparents were all born … More Reynolds and Me
I was intrigued by Louis James blog (13/2/19) regarding ‘The Catacombs of Paris’, GWMR’s only known play. As I live in Herne Bay and the Templeman Library at the University of Canterbury is close by, I arranged to view the manuscript and was shown into the Special Collections viewing room. A small notebook lay on a … More GWM Reynolds’ Only Play
Our narrative opens on the 23rd of July, 2019. A stifling heat pervaded the great metropolis, and the streets were swarming with life. Crowds of Londoners, like myriad animated streams, were pouring through the countless avenues and thoroughfares, diverging and then converging – and every constituent marched doggedly with one thing, one person, on their … More ‘Reynolds Re-evalutated’ Evaluated
I can honestly claim to have been interested in George W.M. Reynolds since early adolescence, even if my path into his life and work differs from the literary scholars who are making him their own. I first came across Reynolds in the library at St. Paul’s School in Barnes when I happened in a lunch … More Reynolds Studies: A Personal History by Rohan McWilliam
Please find below details of a Chartism conference being held at Newcastle University which may be of interest. Chartism Day Annual Conference Date/Time: 1 June 2019 Venue: Armstrong Building, Newcastle University The Labour and Society Research Group in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, will host the annual conference on the Chartist … More Chartism Day Annual Conference
