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The Grecian Bend: A Stoop of Conscious Indecency 988 1141 REVICTO

The Grecian Bend: A Stoop of Conscious Indecency

Featured image: “Vrouw in een tournure. The Grecian Bend.” (“Woman in bustle. The Grecian Bend.”) Hand-coloured albumen print, part of stereoscopic photograph, created between 1852-1863. Rijksmuseum. Source: wikimendia commons.   By Fotis Kalivas The Grecian…

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“The Greek Boy” or “The Art of Greeking” 746 707 REVICTO

“The Greek Boy” or “The Art of Greeking”

On 29 September 1840 Samuel Lover’s musical drama in two acts “The Greek Boy or the Doge’s ring and the Bride of the Adriatic” premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Madame Vestris, actress, producer,…

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The Greek Key in Victorian Fashion Plates 355 1111 REVICTO

The Greek Key in Victorian Fashion Plates

By Fotis Kalivas Fashion trends in the Victorian era had a reputation for borrowing foreign, national, and traditional patterns or pieces of clothing and incorporating them into their designs. The way these new items were…

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A Modern Greek Heroine (1880) by Henry Cresswell 832 1175 REVICTO

A Modern Greek Heroine (1880) by Henry Cresswell

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 Church, Clapham that same year…

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Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters 789 1176 REVICTO

Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters

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, poetry, and travel writing, revealing…

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Ridiculous Fashions 560 573 REVICTO

Ridiculous Fashions

By Fotis Kalivas In the July 11, 1857, issue of Harper’s Weekly (published in New York), an illustration depicts two middle-class young women, Arabella-Maria, and Julia, talking to each other. They are wearing bonnets, coats,…

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Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s “The Girls of Greece” 1211 755 REVICTO

Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s “The Girls of Greece”

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 periodicals, such as The Sunday Magazine, Good…

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The “Industrious Spiders of Modern Greece” 2560 1728 REVICTO

The “Industrious Spiders of Modern Greece”

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, rather than encountering a romantic…

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Modern Greece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897 645 917 REVICTO

Modern Greece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897

The REVICTO team is very pleased to present its new digital research tool, a supplement to REVICTO’s Digital Index. “Modern Grece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897” is a bibliographical aid to researchers of nineteenth-century…

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Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854) 1707 1078 REVICTO

Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854)

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 than a literary magazine in…

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

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

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 the book ranges from “National…

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Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens 554 524 REVICTO

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens

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 Athens and used her knowledge…

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