Nearly ready to join the cast of the Alice books, perhaps, at a tea party celebrating fifty years of Victoria’s reign, John Tenniel’s British Lion appropriately preens on the cover of this, the golden jubilee volume of the Victorians Institute Journal. Inside are articles that approach Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture from the disciplinary perspectives of literary studies, economic history, philosophy, cultural history, and periodical studies. Novels, short fiction, poetry, lectures, criminal trials, and international news stories all receive critical and, at times, pedagogical attention.
Both the Texts and Digital Deliverables sections also return with exciting new material. The former features part 1 of a new English translation and accompanying illustrated critical introduction of a Danish-language travel narrative written by a female painter originally from Poland, with part 2 to come next year. The latter includes profiles of two mature digitization efforts in Victorian poetry, the Digital...
