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The “Industrious Spiders of Modern Greece”
The “Industrious Spiders of Modern Greece” 2560 1728 REVICTO

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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William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905)
William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905) 1567 1580 REVICTO

William Miller’s (1864-1945) Greek Life in Town and Country, published in 1905, offers an overview of contemporary life in Greece at the end of the nineteenth century. The focus of…

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Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine
Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine 571 881 REVICTO

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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Cretan Amazons Revisited
Cretan Amazons Revisited 595 533 REVICTO

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 fiction-like qualities. This was in…

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On the streets of 1886 Athens
On the streets of 1886 Athens 850 1285 REVICTO

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

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Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part II
Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part II 1811 2560 REVICTO

In 1899, ten years after her essay in The Women’s World on the Christian women of the East, Lucy M.J. Garnett published an article entitled “Greek Matrons and Maids” in…

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Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part I
Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part I 1260 1859 REVICTO

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett (1849–1934) was a folklorist, ethnographer, and traveller, who travelled extensively in the Balkans and Middle East, recording the customs of the people she visited and publishing…

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The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 2 – Our Learned Philhellenes
The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 2 – Our Learned Philhellenes 1271 2000 REVICTO

In Part one of the “Cretan Revolt” blog post, mention was made of a theatrical play by journalist and author Henry Duff Traill. The play entitled “Our Learned Philhellenes” was…

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The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 1
The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 1 1561 2000 REVICTO

During the second half of the nineteenth century the “Cretan Question” appeared regularly in the Victorian press, particularly in periods of crisis (1866-1869, 1878, and 1896-1898). It is a broad…

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A Week in 1870s Athens
A Week in 1870s Athens 1773 1766 REVICTO

Blackwood’s Magazine dedicated nineteen pages to the description of ‘A Week in Athens’ in its September 1880 issue. The author of the piece was George A. Macmillan, one of the…

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