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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Saturday, January 3, 2015

Marriage Really Was The Answer To Everything

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Eight posts ago, I started a series on 1890s male sexuality, and expected to wind up characterizing the 1890s gentleman and his sexy sel...

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Rent Boys & Degenerate Men

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From Tom Kalin's "Swoon" (1992). Victorian sexuality can be approached from so many directions, including (but not limited...

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Sexual Orientation of Men in the 1890s

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Victorian sexuality can be approached from so many directions, including (but not limited to) body image , sexual orientation, masturbat...

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Wilde's Last Real Friend

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The Picture of Dorian Gray recently ranked 27th in the Guardian's list of the 100 best novels . Robert McCrum goes on to explain that Do...

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The World of Dress

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"It is merely a question of head," said Percy Anderson to me one day, whilst we were discussing some easy method of solving...

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Perverted Biographies of Marie Corelli

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Like any other kind of writer, historians want to make their writing interesting. So, what is so-and-so had sex with so-and-so? That would b...

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