Victorian Spiritualism: Florence Marryat by Dr Tatiana Kontou (Oxford Brookes) 12th March 2014, Treadwell's Bookshop, 33 Store Street, London WC1E 7BS Tonight we meet Florence Marryat (1833-1899), a Victorian novelist, periodical editor, playwright, actress, and singer. She … [Read more...] about Lecture on Florence Marryat
Forthcoming seminar on Florence Marryat
Wednesday 22nd May, 5pm, University of Surrey Dr. Tatiana Kontou, Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes: ‘Florence Marryat and Material Impressions’. This seminar is also a meeting of the ‘Long Nineteenth-Century Studies Group’. The group is made up of scholars working in this … [Read more...] about Forthcoming seminar on Florence Marryat
Women’s Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture
Although Florence Marryat is now moderately well-known as a novelist, she was also an editor, most notably for the journal London Society. In Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture, Beth Palmer examines her role, alongside Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Ellen [Mrs … [Read more...] about Women’s Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture
Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond
Now that there are a few academics researching Marryat, she does tend to pop up more frequently in published work. Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond is an engaging collection of essays on nineteenth-century concepts of memory, edited by Serena Trowbridge and Ryan Barnett. … [Read more...] about Acts of Memory: The Victorians and Beyond
Hard Cash – Victorian Popular Fiction Association – 4th Annual Conference
Unusually, this year's Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference featured only one paper on Florence Marryat, and that was by me. It was entitled "Who Pays for the Butter? Florence Marryat and the Married Women's Property Acts". The curious can download a copy. … [Read more...] about Hard Cash – Victorian Popular Fiction Association – 4th Annual Conference