Latest Blog Posts for The Secret Victorianist

• Lucia Madness at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City
  on Mar 29, 2015 in New York City Opera Scotland Theatre Walter Scott
  Last week, the Secret Victorianist, along with some student friends, attended MetStudents’ #LuciaMadness event before a production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera. The Secret Victorianist at the Metropolitan OperaMary...
• Art Review: “Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School” (L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles)
  on Mar 22, 2015 in America American Art Classics Los Angeles New York City Race Review
  The other week, the Secret Victorianist left behind the cold of New York to visit the West Coast of the US for the first time. Although much of my visit was spent basking in the sun in Santa Monica and Malibu, there was still time to soak up some nin...
• A Victorian Alphabet: A Retrospect
  on Mar 16, 2015 in A Victorian Alphabet Neo-Victorianism
  Eighteen months ago, I began a series looking at twenty-six themes and topics in Victorian literature linked to the letters of the alphabet. Now, having recently posted Z (for Zuleika!), I’ll be recapping what we covered and linking to any posts yo...
• A Victorian Alphabet: Z is for Zuleika
  on Mar 7, 2015 in A Victorian Alphabet Max Beerbohm Oscar Wilde Oxford
  After 25 letters in my Victorian Alphabet, I’m cheating a little bit here, as Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story wasn’t actually published until 1911. But, having recently finished reading Rupert Hart-Davis’s Letters...
• Theatre Review: An Octoroon, Branden Jacob-Jenkins, Theatre for a New Audience (Brooklyn, New York)
  on Feb 22, 2015 in America Brandon Jacob-Jenkins Dion Boucicault New York City Race Review Theatre
  Every other review I’ve read of Soho Rep’s An Octoroon, which premiered last spring and has now reopened at the Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, opens by mentioning how obscure playwright Dion Boucicault is, not to mention h...
• A Nineteenth Centuryist in Washington D.C.
  on Feb 17, 2015 in America American Art Film Henry Adams Race Science Washington D.C.
  Rather appropriately for the President’s Day weekend, the Secret Victorianist spent the last few days in Washington D.C. It was my first visit to the US capital, and partially inspired by my recent review of Henry Adam’s Democracy, which provides...
• Be my (Victorian) Valentine?
  on Feb 8, 2015 in Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell Emily Bronte Henry James Jane Austen Mary Elizabeth Braddon Oscar Wilde Thomas Hardy Valentine's Day
  Last February, I shared some inspiration for literary lines to use whatever your romantic situation on Valentine’s Day. And this year, I’m bringing you even more potential card-fillers (thank me later!). Can you name the novel for each line?The E...
• A Victorian Alphabet: Y is for Why Yellow??
  on Jan 31, 2015 in A Victorian Alphabet American Aubrey Beardsley Charles Dickens Charlotte Perkins Gilman H.G. Wells Henry James Joris-Karl Huysmans Max Beerbohm Oscar Wilde Paris
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper(1892) is a staple nineteenth-century text for students of literature in the English-speaking world, and especially the US. The 6,000-word short story is an account written in the first person of a wom...
• "We'll Always Have Paris": The Met's La Bohème and Henri Murger’s Scènes de la Vie de Bohème
  on Jan 25, 2015 in French Henri Murger New York City Opera Paris Theatre
  Some texts have an afterlife which is entirely reflective of the spirit in which they were written. One of these is Henri Murger’s Scènes de la Vie de Bohème (1851).The other week I attended the New York Metropolitan Opera’s wonderful productio...
• The Secret Victorianist at the Met: Madame Cézanne and Death Becomes Her
  on Jan 18, 2015 in America American Art Fashion French New York City Paris Review
  Yesterday, I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in New York to see two very different exhibitions of a nineteenth-century flavour.Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory (1891)Madame Cézanne, which runs until 15th March 2015, brings together 24...

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