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Latest Blog Posts for The Secret Victorianist
- Lucia Madness at the Metropolitan Opera, New York CityLast 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)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 Retrospecton Mar 16, 2015 in A Victorian Alphabet Neo-VictorianismEighteen 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 ZuleikaAfter 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)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.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?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??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 BohèmeSome 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 HerYesterday, 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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