text by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys ‘Darkling I listen; and, for many a time, I have been half in love with easeful Death…’ “Ode to a Nightingale”, 51-2 From George Orwell and Daphne de Maurier to Gerald Mainley Hopkins, John Constable, Leigh Hunt, and, naturally, John Keats, Hampstead provided both inspiration and refuge to some of England’s […]
text by Dorota Babilas Cats have experienced a considerable growth in status as companion animals and domestic pets since the nineteenth century. Regarded originally as largely untameable creatures, tolerated because of their function as pest control, they have been welcomed into the parlours and praised for their cleanliness, grace, and vivaciousness while retaining some of […]
text by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko Ten years ago, I ran my Victorian Villains Revisited class for the first time. It focuses on contemporary revisions of three figures: ‘Jack the Ripper’, Mr Hyde, and Professor Moriarty. It has been popular with students (who doesn’t like a good villain?), and yet, this year, while prepping the ‘Jack the […]
