On 29 September 1840 Samuel Lover’s musical drama in two acts “The Greek Boy or the Doge’s ring and the Bride of the Adriatic” premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent…
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By Fotis Kalivas Fashion trends in the Victorian era had a reputation for borrowing foreign, national, and traditional patterns or pieces of clothing and incorporating them into their designs. The…
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We are delighted to announce that on December 10, REVICTO’s principal investigator, Evi Mitsi, gave a lecture as invited speaker at the Benaki Museum. Titled John Frederick Lewis’s Enigmatic Greek…
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Richard Henry Cresswell’s (1846–1925) first novel, A Modern Greek Heroine, was published anonymously in 1880 by Hurst and Blackett in three volumes. Cresswell had given up his curacy at Christ…
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Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters Edited By Efterpi Mitsi, Anna Despotopoulou Routledge, 2025 Victorians and Modern Greece examines the representation of nineteenth-century Greece in British magazines, fiction,…
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By Fotis Kalivas In the July 11, 1857, issue of Harper’s Weekly (published in New York), an illustration depicts two middle-class young women, Arabella-Maria, and Julia, talking to each other.…
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Two members of the REVICTO team, Efterpi Mitsi and Anna Despotopoulou, organized a panel on ‘Victorians and Intertemporal Greece’ in the conference ‘The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal’ which…
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Isabella Fyvie Mayo, born in London from Scottish parents, was a widely published poet and author; using the nom de plume “Edward Garrett” she published her stories in serialized form in popular…
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An article entitled “From Corinth to the Parthenon”, published in The Cornhill Magazine on 7 December 1886, vividly describes a British tourist’s first impressions of Greece. Upon arriving at Corinth,…
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Three members of the REVICTO team presented their papers at the (E)motion in Changing Worlds International Conference (Thessaloniki, 3-5 November 2023), at a special panel on Greek Travel and Victorian…
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