Category: Teaching Reynolds

A Preface to “The Short Stories of G. W. M. Reynolds”

March 5, 2026

By Stephen Knight Having worked and published on Reynolds’ fiction for some years, starting with his grand The Mysteries of London as a major example of the mid-nineteenth century ‘Mysteries’ genre, and then moving through all his novels in my study of 2019, it kept coming to my attention that one of the elements in … More A Preface to “The Short Stories of G. W. M. Reynolds”

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