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18/05/2022

A British Hospital in Piraeus, 1897

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“The hospital at the Piraeus is one of the fruits of the English National Fund which the editor of the Daily Chronicle started on behalf of the Greek wounded.” (The…

18/04/2022

“The Highland mountains in the west, / I tell you are by far the best!”: a 1857 Scottish view of the Byronic Isles

“The Highland mountains in the west, / I tell you are by far the best!”: a 1857 Scottish view of the Byronic Isles https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1897-PIP-GREEK-ARTILLERY-EMBARKING-FOR-CANEA-AT-THE-PIRAEUS-Highlanders-March-27-4.jpg 850 686 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 18/04/2022 18/04/2022

In 1857, Andrew Park, author of Egypt and the East, Or, Travels On Sea and Land (Glasgow, 1857) saw “the famous Isles of Greece”, the Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertiser…

01/03/2022

Meteora: “The Monasteries in the Air” in the Victorian periodical press, 1880 and 1888

Meteora: “The Monasteries in the Air” in the Victorian periodical press, 1880 and 1888 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Fig_1_L047.043.jpg 2000 1563 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 01/03/2022 01/03/2022

Meteora, as a location of singular natural beauty as well as of particular interest to the students of Byzantine art, was included in Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Greece from…

25/02/2022

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869)

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1869-PIP-Cretan-Amazons-Jan9-2-2.jpg 907 933 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 25/02/2022 25/02/2022

The date is January 9, 1869, the 1866 Cretan Revolt is near its end and The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times publishes a short article on a ‘brave, wild, ineffectual,…

16/02/2022

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894)

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/1894-Atalante-earthquake-cover-survivors-ILN-02-June-189_page-0001.jpg 1029 1751 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 16/02/2022 17/02/2022

Originally published in 1842, The Illustrated London News (ILN) was the first newspaper to allow the image to get integrated in the news. As a dissemination of news from outside Britain was slow…

Ancient Corinth, [between 1898 and 1946]

30/01/2022

The Corinth of William Fullerton Cumming, 1839

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Notes of a wanderer, in search of health through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey up the Danube, and down the Rhine (1839) A post by Achillia Nefeli Daskalopoulou Auer* Travelers’…

06/01/2022

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885)

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Sikinos.jpeg 1500 1111 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 06/01/2022 06/01/2022

Theodore Bent, the archaeologist and explorer who wrote The Cyclades; or, Life among the Insular Greeks in 1885, published, in that same year, an article whose narrative is set on…

20/12/2021

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/1897-Scenes-Canea-Bay-cover-ILN-March-1of2_page-0001.jpg 1240 1755 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 20/12/2021 20/12/2021

The date is March 4, 1897. Henry Labouchère’s widely circulated London society journal the Truth publishes a parody of Byron’s ‘The Isles of Greece’ under the following introduction: Byron is…

15/12/2021

Annie Brassey at Cephalonia (1878)

Annie Brassey at Cephalonia (1878) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/002-Brassey-group-banjo.jpeg 576 480 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/12/2021 15/12/2021

Lady Anna (Annie) Brassey (1839-1887) was an English travel writer married to the liberal politician and Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Thomas Brassey. The Brasseys sailed the Mediterranean in 1874…

18/10/2021

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Edith Wharton’s Corfiote Carnival

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Edith Wharton’s (1862-1937) The Cruise of the Vanadis is the account of the author’s 1888 Mediterranean cruise from Africa to Italy aboard the private yacht, The Vanadis. The manuscript was…

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

A British Hospital in Piraeus, 1897

“The Highland mountains in the west, / I tell you are by far the best!”: a 1857 Scottish view of the Byronic Isles

Meteora: “The Monasteries in the Air” in the Victorian periodical press, 1880 and 1888

Cretan Amazons: A dress destined to affect the Parisian and English fashions (The Penny Illustrated, Jan. 1869)

“The Recent Earthquakes in Greece: Survivors Camping out at Atalante” (ILN, 2 June 1894)

The Corinth of William Fullerton Cumming, 1839

A Romance of a Greek Statue (1885)

Byron’s The Isles of Greece Revisited in 1897

Annie Brassey at Cephalonia (1878)

Edith Wharton’s Corfiote Carnival

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