By Zoe Fanzo When interpreting the allusions within Rossetti’s magnum opus, the fundamental text of “Goblin Market” is a very necessary component, but studying the physical printings and subsequent editions allows for a more comprehensive indulgence into the potential relevant themes. Among the most prevalent interpretations of “Goblin Market” by […]

                   The published manuscript which features 37 illustrations by Caroll and instead of using a print press to produce the lettering, the text is printed in his very own handwriting. This immediately adds to the authenticity of the book and thus increases […]

Oscar Wilde’s Salomé is a Christian nightmare. The story goes: King of Judea, King Herod, requests an adult dance from step-daughter Salomé; driven with lust for and revenge with, Salomé demands prophet John the Baptist’s severed head as her reward. Wilde wrote the play in French in Paris in 1893. Salomé came […]

Algernon Charles Swinburne Critical Research Guide ◈ Deirdre Fanzo ◈ ENG 356 Background Information: Algernon Charles Swinburne was one of the great Victorian poets whose compositions often included such taboo topics as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. Swinburne was heavily influenced by the pornographic works of de Sade, and his […]

William Morris News from Nowhere or, An epoch of rest During our visit to the University Of Delaware Library our class got the special opportunity of going to the Mark Samuels Lasner collection. This special collection had thousands of archives, particularly books focused on the British literature during the period […]

The Mark Samuels Lasner Collection at the University of Delaware held an unpublished letter and biographical entry by English essayist and aesthete Walter Pater (1839-1894) and bore the unofficial title of “My dear Madam,” Reference Code:105880. It was sold to the Lasner Collection for USD $600. Below are the original […]

The manuscript below is an art piece by Edward Burne-Jones, who was almost entirely an artist. This manuscript was the intellectual property of the Mark Samuels Lasner collection in the University of Delaware. Below are pictures of the manuscript.   Self-Caricature in the Studio at 17 Red Lion. Ink on […]

John Millais was a successful and notable book illustrator of the Victorian and pre-Raphaelite era, who made several works for Anthony Trollope and Tennyson. The vast majority of book illustrations that he did were for Trollope, wherein his art style matched the text. Millais’s art was unique because he sometimes […]

Amongst the John S. Mayfield Papers housed at Georgetown University exists what may be the largest private collection of Algernon Swinburne’s works. This collection includes one hundred and one first edition copies of Atalanta in Calydon, a private journal kept by the author presumably during his years at Oxford, and […]