With Ruskin's birthday coming up, it is a moment to reflect on the lasting influence of his mother, Margaret Ruskin. See our Instagram post
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#MargaretRuskin #JohnRuskin #RuskinSociety #Praeterita #RuskinStudies #VictorianCulture #WomenInHistory #RuskinToday
Yuying Zhang's article on the social expectations of Victorian women illumines the shifting nature of women's roles during the period. Further, Zhang posits that the seemingly separate spheres of labour and domesticity are not so separate as we may believe!
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The book "The Lady and the Beast: The Extraordinary Partnership between Frieda Harris & Aleister Crowley" on an engraved tombstone overgrown with moss, next to a yellow-green glass orb paperweight
It's #NewYearsEve - the last night of the old year 🔮
Feeling esoteric tonight? Deja Whitehouse's study "The Lady and the Beast" explores the partnership of #ThothTarot creators #FriedaHarris & #AleisterCrowley - key figures of Western #esotericism
#Tarot #GoldenDawn #findesiècle #VictorianCulture
Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture
#VictorianStudies
Magic, incantations, and gothic motifs make Anandi Kar’s essay on affect in the medieval ambience of Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” the perfect read in the lead up to Halloween! Check it out here and in our bio: jvc.oup.com/2025/02/19/a...
#victorian #victorianculture #victorianliterature
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Holding the book "Victorian Automata" in front of an ornate gravestone
"Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays
#VictorianStudies
A beautiful and informative thread on the phonograph in #Dracula! #VictorianCulture
The #CfP #CallforPapers for a #conference by DACH Victorianists on Victorian Jewish Life (in England) has been extended till July 14
more info: dachvictorianists.bl...
#VictorianCulture #EnglishHistory #JewishHistory #JewishCulture
Holding Deborah Lutz's book "Victorian Paper Art and Craft" in the hallways of the University of Göttingen
Book # 3 again looks at albums & #MaterialCulture of writing in #VictorianLiterature:
Deborah Lutz's book "Victorian Paper Art and Craft" paper art by the #Brontës, #ElizabethBrowning, #JaneAusten & #GeorgeEliot
#VictorianCulture #EnglishLiterature
Holding the book "How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information" in the foyer of the University of Göttingen
Book # 2 of our thematic week:
Jillian M. Hess's study "How #Romantics and #Victorians Organized Information" examines #commonplace books, scrapbooks & albums as mediums of organizing knowledge & people, too!
#VictorianCulture #Romanticism #CulturalStudies #MaterialCulture
