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23/05/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

William Makepeace Thackeray and the Palace in Athens

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The fifth chapter of William Thackeray’s travelogue Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by Way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem (1846) offers an account of modern…

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,…

04/04/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824)

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The introduction to a review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824), published in Edinburgh Magazine in June 1824 sees the Greek Revolution as a means by which Greece will…

13/03/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875

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“And all the world of Athens collected on a Sunday afternoon at five o’clock, θαυμάζοντες και θαυμαζόμενοι, as the daily papers said.” In an article which appeared in Macmillan’s Magazine…

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,…

30/01/2021

The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace

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Historian Dr David De Haan takes you on an illustrated tour of the Crystal Palace during the Great exhibition of 1851. The tour begins at the main entrance of the…

24/01/2021

Photos

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Pre-Raphaelite painter and artist’s model

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The model in this photograph is Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), the youngest daughter of Eyphrosyne and Michael Spartali, a wealthy merchant who became Greek consul to London. The Spartalis were…

10/01/2021

Drawings

Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England

Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/87628566-e1630977870915.jpg 1048 730 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 10/01/2021 07/09/2021

Alexander Ionides a member of an Anglo-Greek family came to England in the 1820s to work in his father’s textile business. In 1833, he established his own textile trading company…

03/01/2021

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838

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Anonymous. “Sketches of Modern Greece”. A series of three articles, attributed to James Henry Skene, which attempt to provide the general reader with a broad view of the political, cultural,…

Digital Index

William Makepeace Thackeray and the Palace in Athens

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

Review of The Greek Revolution by Edward Blaquiere (London, 1824)

The third Zappeian Olympiad in Macmillan’s Magazine in 1875

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

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli”

The Great Exhibition of 1851: An Illustrated Tour of the Crystal Palace

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Pre-Raphaelite painter and artist’s model

Alexander Ionides, an established businessman and art patron in early 1840s England

Sketches of Modern Greece in 1837 & 1838

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