#Illustration

Oct 17, 20191 min read

‘The Whitechapel monster’

The Illustrated Police News was one of the earliest British tabloid newspapers. Built around garish reports and still more garish...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

‘Jack the Ripper. Who is he? What is he? Where is he?’

In autumn 1888, five women in east London slums died at the hands of an unknown man. The murderer became known as ‘Jack the Ripper’. The...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

Goblin Market

Goblin Market and other poems was Christina Rossetti’s first collection of published poems. Reviewers highly praised the collection for...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

News from Nowhere

William Morris’s utopian novel, News from Nowhere, was written in 1890. Morris's narrator wakes in a post-revolutionary future in which...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

Shakespeare’s Heroines by Mrs. Jameson with many decorative designs by R. Anning Bell

This hugely influential book by Anna Brownell Jameson (1794–1860) presents a Victorian woman’s view of Shakespeare’s heroines as models...

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Oct 17, 20191 min read

The Nursery Alice

The Nursery Alice, containing twenty coloured enlargements from Tenniel's illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with text...

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