Finola Austin's Blog: The Secret Victorianist, page 11
December 13, 2020
December 3, 2020
Review: The Marquise de Sade, Rachilde (1887)
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading The Marquise de Sade, by Rachilde (first published in French in 1887). I’ve read books by other writers who were part of the late nineteenth-century Decadent Movement. I’ve blogged, for instance, about Joris-Karl Huysmans’s 1884 À Rebours (Against Nature), which is often held up as representative of the excesses of the artistic and literary
Review: The Marquise de Sade, Rachilde
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started reading The Marquise de Sade, by Rachilde (first published in French in 1887). I’ve read books by other writers who were part of the late nineteenth-century Decadent Movement. I’ve blogged, for instance, about Joris-Karl Huysmans’s 1884 À Rebours (Against Nature), which is often held up as representative of the excesses of the artistic and literary
November 28, 2020
November 25, 2020
Writing Retreat Review: Unworkshops at the Highlights Foundation
One of the questions I’m asked most frequently, as a published novelist with a demanding day job, is how I have time to write. I very much admire those authors who can and do write every day, but I’ve never had a lifestyle that can support that sort of schedule. Instead, I’ve written before about the importance to me of making time to write i.e. setting aside intense periods of productivity,
November 21, 2020
October Articles About Bronte’s Mistress
After a crazy couple of months in August and September, October was a quieter month in terms of press for my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress, which tells the true story of Lydia Robinson, the woman rumoured to have had an affair with Branwell Bronte, the Bronte sisters’ brother. Still, I wanted to share some of the publications that were good enough to feature the book last month!In costume for
October Articles about Bronte’s Mistress
After a crazy couple of months in August and September, October was a quieter month in terms of press for my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress, which tells the true story of Lydia Robinson, the woman rumoured to have had an affair with Branwell Bronte, the Bronte sisters’ brother. Still, I wanted to share some of the publications that were good enough to feature the book last month!In costume for
November 13, 2020
Review: Cousin Phillis, Elizabeth Gaskell (1864)
After months of blog posts dedicated to Neo-Victorian fiction and the publication of my debut novel, Bronte’s Mistress, I’m back with a review of an actual nineteenth-century novel, Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1864 Cousin Phillis.This short and sweet work of Victorian realism ends abruptly (it was published in four parts, and Gaskell had apparently planned for parts five and six), but is otherwise a
October 30, 2020
September Articles About Bronte’s Mistress
It’s nearly the end of October and I’m still playing catch up in summarising the press coverage of my debut historical novel, Bronte’s Mistress, which was released in August. Bronte’s Mistress imagines the story of Lydia Robinson, the older woman rumoured to have had an affair with the Bronte sisters’ brother, Branwell Bronte. Around two weeks ago, I published a post on articles written by me and
