Hard Times The Victorians Institute ConferenceNC State University and Methodist UniversityRaleigh, NCSat-Sun October 7-8, 2023 “Hard Times” was a frequent Victorian refrain, perhaps most famously in the title of Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel but also in Stephen Foster’s 1854 song “Hard Times Come…
Letters: 12 August 1843 Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2 September 1843 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood 26 September 1843 Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett Browning 21 October 1843 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood The letters from Thomas Westwood are…
Underneath the Bough, revised and decreased edition. By Michael Field. From the collection of Field scholar Henri Locard, with his extensive penciled annotations and notes on inserted slips. London; New York: Printed by George Bell and Sons (1893). (Armstrong Browning Library 19Cent X…
First edition of A Drama of Exile: and Other Poems (or its British title, Poems). By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. New York, 1844. Two volumes, “A Vision of Poets” the lead poem of the second volume. (Browning Guide C0025, ABL Rare X 821.82 S…
Rossetti, Christina. Time Flies: A Reading Diary. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1890. (ABLibrary 19thCent BV4832 .R74 1890) Rare Item Analysis: Condemning Cruelty Condemning Cruelty Against Creatures: Christina Rossetti’s Anti-Vivisection Perspective in Time Flies: A Reading Diary By Bryanne Mahon In a…
Tyson Stolte, Associate Professor of English at New Mexico State University, will speak on Dickens and Victorian Psychology on Friday, February 24th at 3:30 PM in the Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall.
Dr. Miner, professor of philosophy at Baylor University, will facilitate a discussion of an essay by Nietzsche called “Schopenhaur as Educator” from his collection Untimely Meditation. This book is available through the Baylor library in ebook form. If you are having trouble accessing it, please email 19crs@baylor.edu.…
Reviews Aytoun, William Edmondstoune. Review of Aurora Leigh, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Detached from Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 81, no. 495 (Jan. 1857). Edinburgh: William Blackwood, pp. 23-41. ABL Periodicals Rare. https://www.browningscorrespondence.com/reviews/196/?rsId=254144. Review of Craigcrook Castle, by Gerald Massey, and Aurora Leigh, by…
J.W. Whittaker’s Sermon to the Chartists ABLibrary 19thCent OVZ BX5133.W542x D7 1839 Realigning the Apostle: J.W. Whittaker’s Sermon to the Chartists By Kristyn Drew Woytkewicz Introduction In 1839, proponents of Chartism, a working-class movement which argued for universal male suffrage and parliamentary reform, began staging…
Letters: 1. 13 December 1850 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 2. 19 July 1871 Edward Dowden to Elizabeth Dickinson West 3. 25 September 1882 James Martineau to Roden Noel Letter #1 is held in the Browning Letters Digital Collection of the…