Popularising Gardening: William Robinson and the Transmission of Garden Knowledge in the Illustrated Press by Aurélien Wasilewski

“…William Robinson (1838‒1935) was one of the most influential gardeners of the Victorian period. His publishing empire in particular can be considered as one of the strongest impetuses that fostered the self-definition of the British people as a nation of gardeners. …”
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Transgression et subversion : George Jacob Holyoake, Charles Bradlaugh et l’athéisme militant à l’époque victorienne by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…In the Victorian period, atheism was certainly one of the most transgressive, politically incorrect intellectual positions that were professed. …”
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‘Solving the problem of reality’ in Virginia Woolf’s Flush by Pauline Macadré

“…No longer neglected by critics and scholars, Flush has been widely analysed as encapsulating the social issues of the mid-nineteenth century in terms of class and gender, adopting the point of view of a dog to expose the confinement and submission women had to face—in the Victorian period, but also in Woolf’s own time. The Edwardian perspective allows Woolf to use Flush as the conveyor of modernity—not merely because writing the biography of a dog questions the established societal and literary codes, but also because the de-familiarization of the world through animal eyes aims at ‘solving the problem of reality’. …”
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The Ambivalent Identity of Eighteenth-Century London Clubs as a Prelude to Victorian Clublife by Valérie Capdeville

“…Furthermore, its persistent elitist and gender-exclusive tradition as well as its evolution in the Victorian period makes it a form of resistance to modernity.…”
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Monster or Missing Link? The Mermaid and the Victorian Imagination by Béatrice Laurent

“…This paper purposes to explore these issues and to follow their development throughout the Victorian period.…”
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Madame de Genlis on the Victorian Stage by Juan Manuel Ibeas Altamira

“…Such interest in this author did not falter during the Victorian period. In contrast, her moral and monarchic tendencies, together with her exaltation of the personal effort to face adversity and rise up the social ladder, made her a model of the new world order. …”
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THE ROLE OF PUBLIC OPINION OF GREAT BRITAIN OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOCIAL LEGISLATION IN YEARS 1870-1890 OF QUEEN VICTORIA’S REIGN by J. D. Tsvetkova

“…The article presents in detail the search for philosophical, social and socialistic thought, aimed at solving the deepest social problems and predicating, in many aspects, the cycle of social reforms carried out by the Disraeli and Gladstone cabinets under the auspices of the state in the middle of the late Victorian period. The author points out that the social policy of the prime ministers W. …”
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Getting Along with Relational Databases by Martin Holmes

“…This article discusses the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry (DVPP) project, where metadata on about 15,000 poems from nineteenth-century periodicals is captured in a MySQL database, and periodically exported to create a TEI file for each poem. …”
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Speranza i Mickiewicz by Katarzyna Gmerek

“…It appears that nineteenth-century poetry in digitized periodicals and databases such as the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, is usually not indexed. Hopefully, this can be improved in the future.…”
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