Vulpes Libris
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Tag Archives: 19th century
Labyrinthine journeys in Africa
Steve Kemper’s history of the epic explorations of Heinrich Barth in central Africa in the 1850s will please many people. I’d guess that armchair Africanists will enjoy it for its … Continue reading
The Book of Human Skin – Michelle Lovric
This is Michelle Lovric’s fourth novel for adults and like the first three, it focuses on semi-fantastical historical settings, with larger-than-life characters. She favours the later eighteenth and early nineteenth … Continue reading
The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber
There’s a lot of sex in The Crimson Petal and the White, but while most of it is extremely graphic and some of it is frankly nauseating, none of it … Continue reading
The Quincunx by Charles Palliser
Regular readers of Vulpes Libris will know that Sam Ruddock has been a popular guest reviewer for several months, and we’re delighted to welcome him now as a fully fledged … Continue reading
Interview with Janet Todd
Janet Todd is the author (among many other books) of Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle – one of the best books I’ve read in a long … Continue reading
Michael Steen: Enchantress of Nations
Pauline Viardot: Soprano, Muse and Lover Enchantress of Nations is the biography of a 19th-century opera singer, but I cannot call it an opera biography and I hope opera haters … Continue reading
Ben Wilson: Decency and Disorder
The Age of Cant 1789-1837 I’m looking at my copious notes here, quite baffled, hardly knowing where to begin – so be warned the following will be long, if I … Continue reading
Mary Brunton: Self-Control AND Discipline
If Mary Brunton’s name rings any bells, you are most likely thinking of this quote from Jane Austen: I am looking over Self Control again, & my opinion is confirmed … Continue reading
Maria Edgeworth: Helen
If you have little patience with Goody Two-Shoes heroines, you’ll probably have some difficulties getting on with that of Maria Edgeworth’s last novel Helen (1834). Helen Stanley is a young, well-born orphan whose guardian … Continue reading
Janet Todd: Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle
Wollstonecraft, Imlay, Godwin – for a young unmarried woman, dead at twenty-two, Mary Wollstonecraft’s illegitimate daughter Fanny had many names. It seems to be in fashion these days to write … Continue reading
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