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!

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Monday, November 23, 2015

Victorian Teenagers Gone Wild

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The girl in the top left corner has a mischievous face. Throughout history, teenagers have rebelled against their parents. Popular psyc...

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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Dr. Norman Shanks Kerr and the Barrel Fever

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First identified in 1813, delirium tremens is a severe form of alcohol withdrawal, also called “the DTs,” “the horrors,” “the bottleache...

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Monday, August 19, 2013

Drinking Gin with the Wildes

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Imagine it's 1893 and you have a room full of thirsty authors. As a good hostess, what would you serve? To this end, I'm composing h...

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Monday, August 12, 2013

Degeneration, Decadence & Drink

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First published as Entartung (1892), Max Nordau’s major work was published in English as Degeneration in 1895. In Degeneration, Nordau tran...

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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Egypt in London in the 1890s

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In 1891, Marcel Schwob described Oascar Wilde as: A big man, with a large pasty face, red cheeks, an ironic eye, bad and protrusive te...

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