Monday, October 28, 2013

So You Want to Have Oscar Wilde Over for Dinner?

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Someone recently said they would love to have Oscar Wilde over for dinner, which raised the question of whether he would have actually ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Cycling for the Insane

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Feeling down? Get outside and ride your bike! That’s the advice C. Theodore Ewart M.D. Assistant Medical Officer at the Leavesden Asylum ...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

The Pictures of Women in Dorian Gray

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Through his work with Woman’s World in the late 1880s , Oscar Wilde positioned himself as an important connection for aspiring woman wri...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

Sexton Blake and the Penny Dreadful

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  I could here and there see the reflection of light from the window of some student, who was busy at his studies, or throwing away h...
Monday, October 7, 2013

How to Raise a Horror Writer

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Bram Stoker was a sickly child and spent a lot of time in bed, while his loving Irish mother, Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley (hereaft...
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013

The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Cover Collection

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The Picture of Dorian Gray was possibly the most scandalous book of the 1890s. It was first published as the lead story in the July 1890 edi...
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Sunday, September 29, 2013

A Bit About Ladies' Underwear

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...it is really sad to think that in our own day a civilized woman can hang on to a cross-bar while her maid laces her waist into a fifteen...
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