Special Feature: Poetry and the Colonies

• David Latané, “Introduction”
• John Kinsella, “Henry Clay — Racist or Not?”
• Elizabeth Galway, “Poetical Patriotism: Canadian Children’s Poetry and Nationalist Discourse in the Late Victorian Period”
• Mary Ellis Gibson “Poems of Mary Carshore: The Indian Legacy of L.E.L. and Tom Moore”

Colonial Poems: A Selection

• Mary Fortune, “Conjuro Te”; Contributed by Lucy Sussex
• Toru Dutt, “The Legend of Dhruva” and “The Royal Ascetic and the Hind”; Contributed by Chris Foss
• Thomas Cowherd, “Tinsmith’s Song”; Contributed by Kathryn Carter

Essays

• J. Timothy Lovelace, “The Secret of the Gods in Tennyson’s ‘Tiresias’”
• Devon Fisher, “In Graceful Service to the Queen (Bee): The Politics of the Hive in Tennyson’s The Princess“
• John Glendening, “Track of the Sphinx: H. G. Wells, the Modern Universe, and the Decay of Aestheticism”
• Jennifer Geer “‘Many Worlds More’: Feminine Imagination in Jean Ingelow’s Gladys and Her Island and Mopsa the Fairy“
• Tamara Wagner “Victorian Fictions of the Nerves: Telepathy and Depression in Wilkie Collins’s The Two Destinies“

Reviews

• Sascha Auerbach, Rev. of Capital Offenses: Geographies of Class and Crime in Victorian London, by Simon Joyce
• James H. Murphy, Rev. of Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, by Susan M. Griffin
• Paul R. Deslandes, Rev. of Masters of Theory: Cambridge and the Rise of Mathematical Physics, Andrew Warwick
• Christa Zorn, Rev. of Spurious Ghosts: The Fantastic Tales of Vernon Lee, by Mary Patricia Kane
• Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Rev. of Sherlock’s Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913, by Joseph A. Kestner
• Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas Rev. of The Idea of a Colony: Cross-Culturalism in Modern Poetry, by Edward Marx
• Linda H. Peterson, Rev. of The Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau’s “Somewhat Remarkable” Life by Deborah Logan, and Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War. and Harriet Martineau’s Writing on the British Empire, ed. by Deborah Logan.
• Kathleen McCormack, Rev. of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English Novel, by Amy M. King
• Janet Winston, Rev. of Florence Fenwick Miller: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, and Educator, by Rosemary T. Van Arsdel
• Editors’ Choice
  • Victoria C. Olsen, From Life: The Story of Julia Margaret Cameron and Victorian Photography
  • Catherine Robson, Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman
  • William Baker, Wilkie Collins’s Library – a Reconstruction