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Settler colonies and colonies of occupation, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, South Africa, and the Caribbean, held out the possibility for girls to experience freedom from, and the potential to reconfigure, British norms of femininity. This special…

This paper proposes that the volumes of My Secret Life reveal an explicit linkage and juxtaposition of the respectable and perverse which was at the heart of fin-de-siècle British culture. In particular this paper reads ‘Walter’s’ text as a parody…

In this essay, I suggest that Robinson shifted from the aestheticist socialism of The New Arcadia to aestheticist individualism popularized by Herbert Spencer and Samuel Smiles in the 1880s. An Italian Garden reflects Robinson's intimacy with Vernon Lee, the unique…

English music halls were facing ruin as they were persecuted through the licensing courts at the hands of evangelical Christian fanatics in the fin de siecle. It was difficult for predominantly Jewish theatrical entrepreneurs to oppose popular morals. The long…

This article focuses on the representation of girlhood, gender and mateship particular to Australia, and to a lesser extent New Zealand, within the context of an emerging nationalism, social change and political upheaval. In it, I apply an illustrator’s perspective…

During the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century, elocution was part of the education of almost every Australian girl. This article traces how, from the 1880s, elocution performances became public and competitive, effectively providing training,…

This article considers the effectiveness of transnational ties in the YWCA between the wars. The Association had established their network of women and “girls” long before World War One and were able to resume their connections after the war when…

Neo-Victorian scholarship frequently adopts mirror metaphors to elucidate how contemporary literature and culture revises the nineteenth century. Simon Joyce, for example, though he does not apply the term neo-Victorian, uses the idea of a driver glancing into a car rearview…

Although the term “biofiction” is regularly employed in neo-Victorian criticism it remains curiously under-theorised, without extended discussion of writers’ different approaches to the fictional re-imaginings of nineteenth-century historical subjects, or such representations’ varied ethical or ethically suspect implications. This paper…