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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…

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…

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

REVICTO in NAVSA 2020! [postponed for Nov. 2021] https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Untitled-1.jpg 910 506 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 29/05/2020 12/06/2020

29/05/2020

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REVICTO in NAVSA 2020! [postponed for Nov. 2021]

We are very pleased to announce that REVICTO will be travelling to Vancouver for the annual North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) conference in November…

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 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,…

George Gissing and the smoking mill-chimneys at Piraeus [1889, 1895] https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Piraeus-scaled.jpg 2560 1827 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 10/04/2020 22/04/2021

10/04/2020

George Gissing and the smoking mill-chimneys at Piraeus [1889, 1895]

Langley roused himself from oppressive abstraction, and put into better words this common sense of mirage due to the air and light of Greece. He…

A Mountain Stronghold in Crete [1895] https://revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Canee-Canea-Crete-1860s.jpg 1024 496 REVICTO REVICTO //revictoproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/revicto1.png 05/04/2020 22/04/2021

05/04/2020

A Mountain Stronghold in Crete [1895]

On several occasions I have examined, from the deck of an ocean steamer, the rugged southern slope of the ” White Mountains,” which form the…

Representations of Modern Greece
in Victorian Popular Culture

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