So it’s no wonder we’ve gotten so many fantastic Victorian romances in recent years, like the books and series that ... He’ll do her illustrations if she’ll accompany him on a bike race ...

But Arthur Boyd Houghton, a less well-known illustrator, produced the most compelling and atmospheric images — masterpieces of Victorian book illustration. Although his pictures have an ...

“Martineau was extremely unusual in the amount of control she had over her own medical care,” says Rachel Ablow, author of the 2017 book Victorian Pain. Photo illustration by Meilan Solly ...

It’s curious how much of literature we are conditioned to consider unliterary. Few would contest the canonization of “Bleak House,” “Vanity Fair,” “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ...

Fowler, born in Cohocton, N.Y., in 1809, published a book in 1848 arguing that all ... Armour-Stiner House in Irvington, N.Y.Credit...Illustrations by Joseph Pell Lombardi & Associates His ...

Down in the Hole takes the form of a collection of essays and illustrations penned by DeLyria and Robinson posing as present-day Victorian scholars who discovered a forgotten book called The Wire ...

The book has a hybrid-retro look that combines Victorian graphic esoterica and ... to the steam room to lose a bit of excess weight (see illustrations). Hetzel edition of Jules Verne novel from ...

As BHL’s Elisa Herrmann points out in a blog entry, the illustration “reflects the ideal of a Victorian family ... cataloging thousands of field books in partnership with the Smithsonian ...

His Victorian compendium ... the Victorian age. The illustrations are rather brilliant too – a water molecule portrayed as a trio of fairies holding hands – the book is marred only by her ...

(Courtesy New York Review Books) From his infamous “The Gashlycrumb ... Edward “Ted” Gorey’s intricately detailed, ersatz-Victorian illustrations have for more than a half-century ...

Books from the Victorian era, such as cloth-bound hardcovers, Christmas annuals, and serialized novels can be found at the exhibition. The curator of the exhibit, Rebecca Baumann, said before the 19th ...

Clattering through tunnels without daylight, Hither and thither they run up and down, Beneath the streets of London Town." The above shows an extract from London Town by Ellen Houghton and Thomas ...