Writers in London in the 1890s

A blog dedicated to the research tangents of one writer, while writing about writers in London in the 1890s. Find fun and curious tidbits about Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and many others!

Monday, January 28, 2013

Traveling Along Fleet Street

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I found this picture on Flickr . It's a view of Fleet Street in the 1890s. Upon closer examination (or rather by taking a few step...

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Sunday, January 27, 2013

First Lady of Fleet Street

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Fleet Street was already known in London of the 1890s as the haunt and workplace of news reporters. By the 1890s, journalism was beginning t...

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Stenographic Writing

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The novel, Dracula uses developing forms of storying in the 1890s, like the typewriter, the gramophone, long-distance telephone lines, and ...

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Not that Shakespeare!

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There's no denying the men's club aspect to the culture of writers in London, during the 1890s. Even the Bohemian arts movement excl...

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Bram Stoker on Abraham Lincoln

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I never would have guessed that Bram Stoker was an Amerophile, but he was. He aspired to learn the histories of all the American presidents ...

Monday, January 21, 2013

Talking to the Dead

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Do you believe in ghosts? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did! The idea of communicating with the dead fascinated him and leaves me puzzling over how...

Friday, January 18, 2013

Rational Dress

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Thanks to Franny Moyle , I've come to see Oscar Wilde's wife as a far more complex character in the lives of writers in the 1890s....

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