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02/10/2021

Sophia Tricoupis, hostess and “mistress of socio-political diplomacy”

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Daughter of Spyridon Tricoupis, the first Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic in 1833, and sister of the multiply appointed Prime Minister Harilaos Tricoupis (1875-1894), Sophia Tricoupis was born in…

21/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849

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“The Seamen of the Cyclades” features a heroic Greek woman of the Greek Revolution, who, after her Hydriote husband is blinded by a traitor, takes his place in battle, commanding…

10/02/2021

Fiction/Poetry

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli”

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“The Heroine of Suli” (1838) is narrated by an English traveller to Greece during the Revolution, a self-proclaimed “dreamer” (206), who after being shipwrecked and saved by Suliots becomes fascinated,…

24/01/2021

Photos

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Pre-Raphaelite painter and artist’s model

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The model in this photograph is Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), the youngest daughter of Eyphrosyne and Michael Spartali, a wealthy merchant who became Greek consul to London. The Spartalis were…

05/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

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

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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…

01/12/2020

Fiction/Poetry

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

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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…

26/11/2020

Fiction/Poetry

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

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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…

29/05/2020

News

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

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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 2020! (change of date for…

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Sophia Tricoupis, hostess and “mistress of socio-political diplomacy”

A heroic Greek woman in ‘The seamen of the Cyclades’, 1849

Anon. (1838), “The heroine of Suli”

Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927), Pre-Raphaelite painter and artist’s model

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

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

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

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

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