Digital Index

Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Louis_Dupre.jpg 800 594 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 27/12/2020 13/01/2021

27/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron, and A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece.

James Browne Hamilton. “Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron” and “A Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece. (Part I.)” In this series of two articles, James…

The Great Exhibition of 1851 in The (London Evening) Standard https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Joseph-Nashgreece.jpg 2500 1875 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 19/12/2020 19/12/2020

19/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

The Great Exhibition of 1851 in The (London Evening) Standard

The lengthy and detailed passage begins by alluding to the excellence and civilization of ancient Greece and goes on to make specific reference to the intricacy and richness of the Greek costume displayed in the…

Greece as a Block of Marble in The Great Exhibition, 1851 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 11/12/2020 11/12/2020

11/12/2020

Non-fiction/articles in newspapers

Greece as a Block of Marble in The Great Exhibition, 1851

The following passage, published shortly after the opening of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, very briefly comments on one of the exhibits of the Greek pavilion linking it to the glory of ancient…

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 05/12/2020 02/10/2021

05/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Strickland, Agnes (1838), The Azamoglan, A Tale of Modern Greece

The author of the popular Lives of the Queens of England (12 vols, 1840-48) narrates a tragic tale of abduction and apostacy set in the Greek War of Independence. When Helen’s son Alexander is seized…

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/romanceofharem01pard.jpg 180 313 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 01/12/2020 02/10/2021

01/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Julia Pardoe (1839), The Romance of the Harem, London: Henry Colburn.

After her successful travelogue The City of the Sultan, Pardoe, a travel writer and historical novelist, published a collection of oriental tales which are narrated by Katinka, a harem slave from Chios, to amuse her…

Mary Shelley (1838), ‘Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece’, The Keepsake. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/euphrasia.png 1119 1506 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 26/11/2020 02/10/2021

26/11/2020

Fiction/Poetry

Mary Shelley (1838), ‘Euphrasia: A Tale of Greece’, The Keepsake.

Shelley’s short story was published in The Keepsake, an annual illustrated literary collection mainly addressing a middle-class female readership. Using a mise-en-abyme technique, the story begins when Harry Valency, an Englishman, tells his adventure during…

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star. https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Zante-1890.jpeg 640 473 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 15/09/2020 22/04/2021

15/09/2020

Zakynthos: Murderers and Currants. Excerpt from a 1870 novel reprinted in The Northern Star.

Excerpt from George Webb Dasent’s highly autobiographical novel, Annals of an Eventful Life (1870). The author explicitly declares the island of Zakynthos as the land of murderers and currants. The book was immensely popular and,…

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854) https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/vestibule-between-egyptian-and-roman.jpg 1600 1200 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 30/08/2020 22/04/2021

30/08/2020

Punch’s Handbooks to the Crystal Palace the Greek Court through Mr Owen Jones (1854)

The Greek Court is approached by a façade having three Grecian doorways of the Grecian Doric Order. The visitor is or may be arrested at the principal entrance by what to the inexperienced eye would…

1897 Greece by Underwood & Underwood https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 31/07/2020 07/09/2021

31/07/2020

1897 Greece by Underwood & Underwood

Virginia Woolf in Tiryns 1906 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/UND.-038.jpg 2000 972 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 22/05/2020 22/04/2021

22/05/2020

Virginia Woolf in Tiryns 1906

Virginia Woolf Diary [visit to Greece 1906] Sept. 24, 1906

Kalamata in 1905 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Rue-de-Gare-de-Chemin-de-Fer-Kalamata.jpg 2000 1252 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 06/05/2020 22/04/2021

06/05/2020

Kalamata in 1905

Kalamata is one of the pleasantest towns of the Peloponnesos. Situated in the rich Messenian plain, among orange groves which recall the golden fruit of the Hesperides, and banana plantations which are a proof of…

the new Athens 1914 https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/a002742.jpg 800 593 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 22/04/2020 22/04/2021

22/04/2020

the new Athens 1914

Mr. Thomas H. Mawson, the landscape architect, who has just returned from Athens, after a further interview with the King and Queen of the Hellenes, the Prime Minister (M. Venizelos), and the Mayor of Athens…