Recently minted PhD Samantha Morse explains the pleasure of re-reading The Mysteries of London during the COVID-19 pandemic and considers the similarities between Greenwood and Jeffrey Epstein based on the recent Netflix documentary Filthy Rich. … More 2020’s George Montague Greenwood
by Rachael Taylor My PhD research focuses on representations of female beauty and cosmetics use in British literature and culture from 1848 to 1901. From performing keyword searches of the JISC Historical Texts database for novels which frequently mentioned cosmetics use to gather my primary sources, I was led to an encounter with G. W. … More Walking the Streets and Treading the Boards: Cosmetics, The Prostitute and the Actress in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848) and G. W. M. Reynolds’s Ellen Percy; Or, the Memoirs of an Actress (1857)
By Stephen Basdeo A book of mine has just been through the final proofing stage and is now with the printers and, the coronavirus pandemic allowing, will be released on 30 June 2020. A popular history book titled Heroes and Villains of the British Empire, I give a cultural history of how imperial ‘heroes’ were … More G.W.M. Reynolds’s View of Military Service
Musing on the significance of treadmills in The Mysteries of London’s social commentary… while running on a 21C treadmill. … More Reynolds’s Treadmills
For this post, I wanted to draw attention to G W M Reynolds’s first work– The Parricide, The Youth’s Career of Crime (1847)[1]. The text had originally been published under the title The Youthful Imposter in 1835 when Reynolds was only twenty year’s old. Though I was unable to find any reviews of 1835 The … More The Parricide (1847)
by Sophie Raine For our Christmas blog last year, I wrote about Reynolds’s Christmas story The Pixy (1848). This year, I was interested in what issues Reynolds covered in his non-fiction during the festive period, particularly in Reynolds’s Newspaper. Readers may not be surprised to learn that during this period, Reynolds did not diverge from … More Christmas and the Poor in Reynolds’s Newspaper
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
