Tag: Novelist

 “Going Off” in Fat Victorian Novels

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I recently picked up a long Victorian novel that has long been on my list, Margaret Oliphant’s 1866 Miss Marjoribanks. It features a protagonist who recalls Jane Austen’s Emma, the spoiled, clever, and maddening Lucilla Marjoribanks (pronounced “Marchbanks”), who is determined to have her way in everything as she navigates through a marriage plot in a sleepy provincial mid-Victorian English town. Miss Marjoribanks is a good pandemic read for the comfortable satisfactions it offers as a sprawling realist novel that

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‘In Harkness’ London’: a symposium on the life and work of Margaret Harkness

Digitizing the Victorians, Victorians Beyond the Academy

Birkbeck College (University of London), 22 November 2014  Report by Rosalyn Buckland (King’s College London) and Kate Taylor (Birkbeck College, University of London) Rosalyn Buckland is a PhD student at Kings College London where she is researching mining in 19th-century literature. She tweets @rosalynbuckland. Kate Taylor has recently completed a Master’s Degree in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College and will begin a PhD on the inebriate Women of the late nineteenth-century later this year. She tweets @katetaylorfc. This one-day symposium

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