Book Launch: G. W. M. Reynolds Reimagined

April 25, 2023

The Reynolds Society are incredibly excited to announce the launch of the brand new edited collection G. W. M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870. The collection was co-edited by Mary L. Shannon (Reynolds Society President) and Jennifer Conary (Reynolds Society Vice-President), and features work from emerging and established scholars alike. The … More Book Launch: G. W. M. Reynolds Reimagined

Introductory Post from New Board Member Stephen Basdeo

February 27, 2024

It has been, as of 2024, eleven years since I first picked up a tattered copy of The Mysteries of London, by an author then unknown to me, to study for my MA dissertation on the representation of Victorian organised crime. Since then, Reynolds has become one of my favourite authors and I find myself … More Introductory Post from New Board Member Stephen Basdeo

Teaching The Mysteries of London to Masters Students

June 16, 2023

By Helen Kingstone After attending the G. W. M. Reynolds panel at the British Association for Victorian Studies conference in September 2022, I decided to take up the panellists’ call for us to include Reynolds in our teaching. I incorporated some excerpts from The Mysteries of London in an MA module on Victorian London – … More Teaching The Mysteries of London to Masters Students

Writing Up a Storm in Paris and London: Upcoming Reynolds Society Event

June 1, 2023

Join the Reynolds Society for an evening talk at the Bow Street Police Museum in London on Thursday 20th July 2023! Our very own Mary L. Shannon and Jennifer Conary will be discussing Reynolds, his life in Paris and London, and his brushes with the police. Mary and Jennifer will also be signing copies of … More Writing Up a Storm in Paris and London: Upcoming Reynolds Society Event

The Sepoys: The Indian Revolt in Reynolds’s Miscellany

May 26, 2023

By Rebecca Nesvet The new book G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870, edited by Jennifer Conary and Mary L. Shannon and just out from Routledge, innovatively illuminates G. W. M. Reynolds’s radical career and exposes some new mysteries. Shannon examines the possible meanings of the 1843 Madras Comic Almanac’s claim to … More The Sepoys: The Indian Revolt in Reynolds’s Miscellany

The Prodigal Brother: Edward D. Reynolds

March 13, 2023

By David T. Dixon In July 2022, I shared research that revealed a lasting friendship between George W.M. Reynolds and English Garibaldian Hugh Forbes. Further inquiries into their social circles uncovered important facts about Forbes’s eight years in Paris while adding additional context to Reynolds’s time on the Continent.[1] Numerous scholars cite an 1848 British … More The Prodigal Brother: Edward D. Reynolds

“Victorian England’s Bestselling Author” and Reynolds in Brazil: Two New Publications

February 16, 2023

By Stephen Basdeo Who was Victorian England’s best-selling author? There are many contenders for this title. Charles Dickens would obviously have a claim. Yet as you’re reading this short article on the G.W.M. Reynolds Society’s website, presumably you think that the eponymous author of some of the Victorian period’s most famous popular literary works also … More “Victorian England’s Bestselling Author” and Reynolds in Brazil: Two New Publications

Reynolds’s Afterlives in the Historical Fiction of David Ebsworth

January 16, 2023

By Dave McCall (AKA David Ebsworth) I first ran into George W. M. Reynolds about ten years ago. I was writing the first of my Spanish Civil War novels, The Assassin’s Mark, and I needed to find an appropriate real-life newspaper for which fictional protagonist and journalist Jack Telford might work. It needed to be … More Reynolds’s Afterlives in the Historical Fiction of David Ebsworth