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Overzealous Research Lands Cross-Dressing Victorian Writer in the Dock

January 26, 2017 | 19th Century, 19th Century Law, British History, Law, Victorian England | 24 comments

Stroll in the Park by Aleksander Gierymski, 1891-1893.

Just before midnight on June 25, 1891, a police detective encountered two women strolling arm-in-arm down Regent Street. One of the women struck him as being rather odd in appearance. He approached to investigate, but when he attempted to raise the heavy black veil on the lady’s hat, she firmly knocked his hand away. It was then that the detective realized that the lady was, in fact, a very elderly gentleman in women’s clothes. He promptly arrested him.[…]Continue Reading

Outlander, Austen, and Quick: The Emotionally Vulnerable Hero

May 3, 2015 | 18th Century, 19th Century, Jane Austen, Romance, Victorian England | 7 comments

“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

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Pride and Prejudice (1995). Photograph: BBC

So says Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth Bennett in what is not only one of the most famous scenes in Pride and Prejudice but arguably one of the most beloved in all of English Literature. […]Continue Reading