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What if… Sherlock Holmes met Jack the Ripper?

text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko This question has motivated numerous texts – plays, novels, short stories, parodies, pastiches, fanfiction, ‘Grand Game’ studies, movies, TV shows, video and board games – and apparently both their creators and the audiences are still fascinated with its (im)possible outcomes. Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper have developed in parallel and, up […]

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QAQV – year 2

text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko It’s been two years since our group was officially established. Since I marked the first anniversary summarising our activities, I’ll do it again. Here’s what we’ve been doing over the last 12 months. QAQV 8 The main event of the year was the From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria conference which […]

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Ewa Młynarczyk: Literary Appropriations of Myth and Legend in the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Morris, Algernon Charles Swinburne and William ButlerYeats

text by Grażyna Bystydzieńska This book was written as a doctoral thesis for the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, in 2022 but sadly, Ewa Młynarczyk died before she was able to take her doctoral examinations and complete the procedures for the award of the degree. In her Preface, Ewa Młynarczyk wrote: “ For […]

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