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The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration Fund
Read more: The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration FundVéronique Molinari explores how four people united forces to help young Shetlanders emigrate to Australia
Shakespeare’s Instability
by Jeffrey Knapp The first speaker in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays is not a prince, like Hamlet, or a lover, like Juliet, or a warrior, like Macbeth. He’s a drunken beggar. And he’s incensed that the hostess of the tavern…
Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at the council chamber. “[The] town was lying in the defencelessness of sleep,” Pawkie remembers, “and nothing was heard but the…
The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Q&A
by Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise In the following quiz, each answer is related to a particular chapter of The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. We hope, as a result, that this fun test will enable you…
Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature
by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what happened when Victorians looked around for signs of the historical progress that was allegedly taking place on a broad scale.…
Children, Charity and Magazines
A Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
AVANT-GARDES INVENTED IN AUSTRALIA!
Did Australia invent the idea of the avant-garde?
W. B. Yeats’s late-career engagement with the Irish language poetry of dispossession
Cora Crampton explores a lesser-known aspect of W. B. Yeats’s oeuvre - his collaboration with Frank O’Connor in the translation of Irish language poetry during the 1930s.
An Interview with David Rando, author of On Fiction and Being a Good Animal
by David Rando Tell us a bit about On Fiction and Being a Good Animal. On Fiction and Being a Good Animal begins with a question: what if fiction could help us to become not better people but better animals?…
5 Things I Learned About William Lindsay Gresham
by G. Connor Salter I knew that he put the word “geek” into popular culture with his 1946 novel Nightmare Alley. Beyond that, the only thing I knew when I started researching William Lindsay Gresham was that his ex-wife, Joy…