Digital Index

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part II https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/HELLAS_1909_01_18-scaled.jpg 1811 2560 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 24/08/2022 24/08/2022

24/08/2022

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part II

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 Good Words, a religious monthly…

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part I https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Picture1-Garnett.jpg 1260 1859 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 10/08/2022 24/08/2022

10/08/2022

Lucy Mary Jane Garnett and Greek Women – Part I

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 several volumes on Greek and…

The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 2 – Our Learned Philhellenes https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1897-04-01_fortnightly_61_p504_535_608-26-34.jpg 1271 2000 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 28/07/2022 10/08/2022

28/07/2022

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

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 published in the Fortnightly Review…

The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 1 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/7Σ10.042.jpg 1561 2000 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 20/07/2022 20/07/2022

20/07/2022

The Cretan Revolt (1896-1898), Part 1

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 term to describe a complex…

A Week in 1870s Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/week-in-athens-1880.png 1773 1766 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 01/06/2022 01/06/2022

01/06/2022

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

A Week in 1870s Athens

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 founding members a year previously…

A British Hospital in Piraeus, 1897 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Hospital-1.jpeg 2339 1505 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 18/05/2022 09/09/2022

18/05/2022

A British Hospital in Piraeus, 1897

“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 Sketch, 16 June 1897). The…

“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

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

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 notes (“Literature”, December 19, 1857),…

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/kylix-trading-ship-pirates.jpeg 581 465 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 28/03/2022 28/03/2022

28/03/2022

Fiction/Poetry

Love and Pirates in Victorian Ancient Athens

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 invented characters and situations, ancient…

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/H._Helley_-_Portrait_of_Kira_Vassiliki.jpg 1531 2000 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 14/03/2022 10/08/2022

14/03/2022

“Vasilissa” in The New Monthly Magazine, 1867

In 1867, a story entitled “Vasilissa”, which was published in The New Monthly Magazine, revisited the Greek War of Independence, centring on the figure of a Greek woman who is victimized not only by the…

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

01/03/2022

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

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 its first edition in 1840…

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

25/02/2022

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

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, almost suicidal struggle for independence’…

“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

16/02/2022

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

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 and special correspondents were sent…