May 2013
CHARLOTTE CORY'S 'VISITORIANS'...
The VV is an enormous fan of the artist and writer Charlotte Cory - particularly her 'carte de visites' made up of portraits of ...
ELIJAH'S MERMAID ~ A BOOK TRAILER...
The VV's new novel, Elijah's Mermaid was published in paperback by Orion Books last Thursday. This is the first in what will be a se...
MARY SEACOLE: GUEST POST BY HELEN RAPPAPORT...
In 2005 a mixed-race woman from Jamaica named Mary Seacole, who had died in obscurity in London in 1881, unexpectedly became the subject of ...
OF THE LIKEABLEST AND LOVEABLEST...
IN 1881 the artist and critic Ruskin inaugurated the May Day ceremony at Whitelands College (a college that trained young women to teach fo...
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