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A Modern Greek Heroine (1880) by Henry Cresswell https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cresswell.jpeg 832 1175 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 09/11/2024 09/11/2024

09/11/2024

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…

Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/1-e1731054051267.jpg 789 1176 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 08/11/2024 09/11/2024

08/11/2024

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…

Ridiculous Fashions https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Harpers.jpg 560 573 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/08/2024 30/08/2024

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Ridiculous Fashions

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, and…

Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s “The Girls of Greece” https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/page-from-Mayo_crop.jpg 1211 755 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 27/02/2024 27/02/2024

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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…

The “Industrious Spiders of Modern Greece” https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CPATH1.243-scaled.jpg 2560 1728 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 18/11/2023 18/11/2023

18/11/2023

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…

Modern Greece in the Victorian Periodical Press, 1821-1897 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/supplement_cover.png 645 917 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 19/08/2023 20/08/2023

19/08/2023

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…

Fraser’s “A Day at Marathon” and the Picturesque “Brigands” (1854) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Cook.jpg 1707 1078 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 03/05/2023 03/05/2023

03/05/2023

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…

William Miller’s “Women’s” chapter in Greek Life in Town and Country (1905) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FOTO.0431004.jpg 1567 1580 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/03/2023 29/03/2023

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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…

Hellenic infants and classic English nursery rhymes in 1900 Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screenshot-2023-02-24-at-12.18.01-PM.jpeg 554 524 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 24/02/2023 24/02/2023

24/02/2023

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…

The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Lake_of_Stymphalos_in_Arcadia_-_Dodwell_Edward_-_1819.jpg 640 389 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 08/02/2023 29/03/2023

08/02/2023

The Hetairia in Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) by Stephanos Theodoros Xenos

Andronike, The Heroine of the Greek Revolution (1897) was first written in Greek in 1861 by author and journalist Stephanos Theodoros Xenos and was his most popular novel in Greece (Kafkalidis 2). Xenos (1821-1894) was…

Politics in a nutshell: “ΠYNCH ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ ΦΙΛΟΙΣΙΝ ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ”, A pseudo-philhellenic poem in 1869 Punch magazine https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Unknown.jpeg 571 881 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/01/2023 30/01/2023

30/01/2023

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

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 of Christendom and classical scholars…

Cretan Amazons Revisited https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cretan-amazons-2.jpg 595 533 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 13/01/2023 13/01/2023

13/01/2023

Cretan Amazons Revisited

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 early January 1869 as the…