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!

Sunday, November 30, 2014

20 Things You Should Know About Bram Stoker's Wife

Florence Stoker (2 November 1880) Who was Bram Stoker's wife? Why should we care about her? Stoker wrote Dracula, surely that makes ...

Sunday, November 23, 2014

1890s Literary Hostesses

The literary hostess is a figure, who pops up repeatedly in the biographies of all my 1890s writers. Married, or unmarried, she was usually,...

Thursday, November 20, 2014

1890s Male Body Image

Belgian painter Henri Evenepoel's 1898 selfie. Victorian sexuality can be approached from so many directions, including (but not lim...

Monday, November 17, 2014

Images of London in 1899

On the last day of the 19th century, a large stone at Stonehenge fell over. The collapse changed people's attitudes toward Stonehenge, a...

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