Miranda Seymour

What the Valet Did

Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime

By Claire Harman

LR

October 1996 Issue

Christopher Wood

When is a Nude Not a Nude?

The Victorian Nude: Sexuality, Morality and Art

By Alison Smith

LR

June 1986 Issue

Susan Crosland

Edna Strikes a Blow

Wives of Fame: Mary Livingstone, Jenny Marx, Emma Darwin

By Edna Healey

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May 1984 Issue

David Lancaster

Instinct for Talent

Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape

By Ann Thwaite

LR

April 2018 Issue

Catherine Peters

Deb’s Distress

Miss Palmer’s Diary: The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady

By Gillian Wagner

LR

April 2002 Issue

J W M Thompson

He Took a Prostitute to Meet Queen Victoria

American Scoundrel: Love, War And Politics In Civil War America

By Thomas Keneally

LR

November 2017 Issue

Sarah Bradford

Family Planning

Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe

By Deborah Cadbury

LR

October 2017 Issue

Patricia Fara

Clean Bill of Health

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

By Lindsey Fitzharris

LR

October 2017 Issue

A N Wilson

There Once Was a Man from San Remo

Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

By Jenny Uglow

September 2017 Issue

Catherine Peters

Come Dine with We

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

By Annie Gray

LR

December 1997 Issue

Richard Dorment

An Actress, perhaps, but Granny was not a Tart

The Actress and the Brewer's Wife: Two Victorian Vignettes

By Virginia Surtees

LR

August 2017 Issue

Catherine Peters

Desperate Housewife

Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World: A Story of Love, Work, Friendship, and Marriage

By Kathy Chamberlain

LR

July 2017 Issue

Anne Sebba

Rank & Style

The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

By Anne de Courcy

LR

February 2000 Issue

John Banville

Scoundrel Manages to Keep his Secrets

Wainewright The Poisoner

By Andrew Motion

LR

April 2017 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Look into My Eyes

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

By Wendy Moore

March 1993 Issue

Robert Woof

Convivial Study

Tennyson: A Biography

By Peter Levi

LR

March 2017 Issue

Dominic Green

Victorians in Togas

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity

By Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi (edd)

LR

February 2017 Issue

John Sutherland

Body Language

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

By Kathryn Hughes

LR

November 2016 Issue

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