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Victorian History

A collection of 5 posts

One woman’s challenge to the Victorian Legal Professions

One woman’s challenge to the Victorian Legal Professions

Read now a new blog post by OBP author Leslie Howsam on her latest Open Access book 'Eliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London'

The Middle is Marching: Adam Roberts, on reading George Eliot’s 'Middlemarch'

The Middle is Marching: Adam Roberts, on reading George Eliot’s 'Middlemarch'

Adam Roberts, author of 'Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors', on reading George Eliot’s 'Middlemarch'

Jane Austen in Covid

Jane Austen in Covid

Read editor Jane Stabler's new blog post on 'Jane Austen: Reflections of a Reader'.

Allusion/Echo and Plagiarism: Walking the Fine Line

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Allusion/Echo and Plagiarism: Walking the Fine Line

In the three-volume second edition (1987) of Tennyson’s complete poems, editor Christopher Ricks cites more than twelve hundred instances where phrases and short passages are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands. These similarities are sometimes as minimal as two or three words, but

How I Came Home

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How I Came Home

For most of my professional career I was a teacher of French literature and much of my published work has been in that field. But I have always been a wanderer and, since my retirement in 1999, perhaps a rather reckless one. Sometimes I look back to see if I