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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Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Dorian Gray Goes Slumming (a close reading)

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"The Hooligans," by Leonard Raven-Hill (1899) In Chapter 16 of Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Dori...

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Sunday, October 26, 2014

Dens of Debauchery

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Without kids to take trick-or-treating, we've been talking about going out for Halloween, but no one wants to spend too much money, ...

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Campaigns of Curiosity

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Elizabeth Banks disguised as a housemaid Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist, who moved to London in 1892, and became a pione...

Monday, September 16, 2013

Stoker and Wilde go to Whitechapel

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Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde both make references to Whitechapel in their novels. In the 1890s especially, Whitechapel was known as a po...

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