Fiction/Poetry Archives

25/08/2021

Richard Cobden, the Eastern Question, Punch and the Modern Olympians (1836, 1854, 1859)

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Richard Cobden, the British politician known for his defense of free trade as the main tenet of foreign policy, published in 1836 the volume Russia and the Eastern Question in which…

15/06/2021

Fiction/Poetry

Herman Melville’s 1891 Reminiscence of Syros in 1856

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Herman Melville first arrived at the island of Syra (Syros) on board the steamship Egyptian on Tuesday, December 2, 1856. He saw the place a second time, again in December,…

12/05/2021

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine: Modern Argonauts in 1850s Greece

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The Modern Argonauts You have heard the ancient story, How the gallant sons of Greece, Long ago, with Jason ventured For the fated Golden Fleece; How they traversed distant regions,…

21/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849

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“The Seamen of the Cyclades” features a heroic Greek woman of the Greek Revolution, who, after her Hydriote husband is blinded by a traitor, takes his place in battle, commanding…

10/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli”

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“The Heroine of Suli” (1838) is narrated by an English traveller to Greece during the Revolution, a self-proclaimed “dreamer” (206), who after being shipwrecked and saved by Suliots becomes fascinated,…

05/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece

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The author of the popular Lives of the Queens of England (12 vols, 1840-48) narrates a tragic tale of abduction and apostacy set in the Greek War of Independence. When…

01/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn.

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After her successful travelogue The City of the Sultan, Pardoe, a travel writer and historical novelist, published a collection of oriental tales which are narrated by Katinka, a harem slave…

26/11/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Mary Shelley (1838), ‘Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece’, The Keepsake.

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Shelley’s short story was published in The Keepsake, an annual illustrated literary collection mainly addressing a middle-class female readership. Using a mise-en-abyme technique, the story begins when Harry Valency, an…

22/05/2020

Virginia Woolf in Tiryns 1906

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Virginia Woolf Diary [visit to Greece 1906] Sept. 24, 1906

10/04/2020

George Gissing and the smoking mill-chimneys at Piraeus [1889, 1895]

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Langley roused himself from oppressive abstraction, and put into better words this common sense of mirage due to the air and light of Greece. He spoke deliberately, and as if…