About me

I’m Emily, an apprentice journalist, a writer and an occasional picture-maker. My thing is the long nineteenth century and Neo-Victorianism … More

Review: Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth-Century Literature

[This story was first published on The British Society for Literature and Science website. The original post can be read … More

Peaches, pearls and pornography: The Handmaiden (Director’s Cut) review

I’ve long been a fan of Sarah Waters’ writing. Her works, often complex tales of romantic female relationships during the … More

From Alice in Wonderland to Cadbury’s Cocoa: the Brothers Dalziel’s Victorian wood engraving

During the nineteenth century, technological changes led to an expansion in print culture. Improvements in printing and paper production, in … More

Archives of Lost Voices: Patient Publications in Hospitals

[This story was published on December 12 on The Still Point blog. Read the original story at thestillpointjournal.com/2016/12/12/archives-of-lost-voices.] It’s difficult to pinpoint … More

Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome

[Image: Nameless and Friendless, 1857, Emily Mary Osborn] Hello, friends, Romans, and lovers of the creative, historical, queer, and macabre! … More

The Lost Histories of Patient Publications

Contact me here Calling all historians, Victorianists, creative types, ex or current service users, mental health staff, occupational therapists and … More

Darwin, Photography, and the ‘Screaming Victorians’ of Anthony Rhys’s Visual Biofiction

Or; Whose Biofiction is it Anyway? [This story was published on September 23 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original … More

Burlesque, pop up cafés and the gay ’80s: Brighton events guide for April

It’s all going on in Brighton this month. Gigs, tap takeovers, film showings and Shakespeare at the Old Market. Be … More

Water women and hydropathy: Debut novel by Chichester author

[This story was published on March 24 in the Chichester Observer. Read the original story at chichester.co.uk/news/local/water-women-and-hydropathy-in-new-novel-1-7293660.] [Image: V.H. Leslie] … More