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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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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The article “A Day at Marathon” was published in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country (April 1854). Fraser’s was a monthly edition devoted to politics, religion, and social conditions, rather…
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In the first days of March 1900, the “Art and Literature” section of several British newspapers included a short paragraph on a Greek lady who established an infant school in…
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Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) was first written in Greek in 1861 by author and journalist Stephanos Theodoros Xenos and was his most popular novel in Greece…
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As American journalist and historian William James Stillman suggested in his book on the 1866 Cretan Insurrection (published in 1874), Greek politics had always relied too much on the sympathy…
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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 marks the hour; and answering…
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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 Byron and his Philhellenic stance.…
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Part II: “Erotion – A Tale of Ancient Greece” “Erotion – A Tale of Ancient Greece” propels the reader back to the Homeric age and relates a situation of crisis.…
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