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21/09/2022

“A Legend of Corinth” by Elizabeth Youatt (1843)

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“A Legend of Corinth.” New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, 68:272 (1843): 440-448. “Once again turn we back with lingering fondness to Corinth—tradition-haunted Corinth! As it was e’er its glory…

09/09/2022

“A Greek Hamlet” (1880)

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“A Greek Hamlet.” Fraser’s magazine 610 (Oct 1880): 511-527 “A Greek Hamlet” fictionalizes and revises the story of Periander, Tyrant of Corinth in the 6th century BC, as found in…

24/08/2022

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part II

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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…

10/08/2022

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part I

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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…

28/07/2022

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

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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…

20/07/2022

The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 1

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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…

01/06/2022

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

A Week in 1870s Athens

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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…

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

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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…

28/03/2022

Fiction/Poetry

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens

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Throughout the nineteenth century popular narratives in periodicals adapted ancient Greek myths and history or created new enjoyable stories which allegorically reflected on Victorian socio-political concerns. In such stories involving…

Digital Index

“A Legend of Corinth” by Elizabeth Youatt (1843)

“A Greek Hamlet” (1880)

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part II

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part I

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

The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 1

A Week in 1870s Athens

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

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens

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