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13/01/2023

Cretan Amazons Revisited

In a previous post, we reported on a Penny Illustrated piece titled “Cretan Amazons” about a “‘brave, wild, ineffectual, almost suicidal struggle for independence” with…

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22/12/2022

On the streets of 1886 Athens

In no other place in the world may one be subjected to such direction as this: “ You are in Euripides Street; go down till…

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15/12/2022

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)

The tideless sea rocks with no rippling swell The huge ships borne upon its gloomy breast; No sound disturbs the silence save the bell Which…

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28/11/2022

Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

Despite never having visited Greece, the American Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) seems to have been deeply impressed by the literary figure of the British Lord…

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21/11/2022

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847), Part II

Part II: “Erotion – A Tale of Ancient Greece” “Erotion – A Tale of Ancient Greece” propels the reader back to the Homeric age and…

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14/11/2022

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847)

Part I: “The Pearl of the Bosphorus – a Tale of the Phanar” In 1847, two Greek-themed short stories were published anonymously in the Dublin…

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25/10/2022

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt

In 1870, just after the Cretan Revolt of 1866-1869, Mary Louisa Whately (1824-1889), an English missionary in Egypt, published a story entitled “The Greek Slave,”…

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10/10/2022

“A Modern Nausicaa” and Tourism in Corfu

“A Modern Nausicaa.” All the Year Round 4:87 (Aug 30, 1890): 210-216 At the dawn of mass tourism in the late Victorian period, Corfu was…

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21/09/2022

“A Legend of Corinth” by Elizabeth Youatt (1843)

“A Legend of Corinth.” New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 68:272 (1843): 440-448. “Once again turn we back with lingering fondness to Corinth—tradition-haunted Corinth! As…

Representations of Modern Greece
in Victorian Popular Culture

Cretan Amazons Revisited

On the streets of 1886 Athens

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)

Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847), Part II

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847)

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt

“A Modern Nausicaa” and Tourism in Corfu

“A Legend of Corinth” by Elizabeth Youatt (1843)

Representations of Modern Greece
in Victorian Popular Culture

Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture

Cretan Amazons Revisited

On the streets of 1886 Athens

“In the Peiræus. A Reverie” – Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (1864)

Poe’s vision of Zakynthos: Sonnet — To Zante (1837)

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847), Part II

The Greek Maiden and Filial Love in the Dublin University Magazine (1847)

Mary Louisa Whately’s “Greek Slave” in Egypt

“A Modern Nausicaa” and Tourism in Corfu

“A Legend of Corinth” by Elizabeth Youatt (1843)

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Representations of Modern Greece
in Victorian Popular Culture