Victorian Popular Fictions volume 7 issue 2 (Autumn 2025)

Articles

Claire O’Callaghan and Helena Esser. Introduction: Victorian Popular Fiction, Culture and The Third Sex

Anouska Lester. “My own Dearest of all”: Recovering Marie Corelli and Bertha Vyver’s Queer History through Material Culture

Conner Moore. “He ought to have been a pretty and rather boyish girl”: Queer and Trans Readings of Swinburne’s Poetry and Lesbia Brandon

VJ René. “Male and female at once”: Bisexual Phenomenology in Swinburne

Claire O’Callaghan. “These queer hearts of ours”: Emily Faithfull and the Sensational Strategies in Change upon Change: A Love Story (1868)

Milly Kate Harrison. In Wilde’s Wake: Robert Hichens and the Burden of Influence

Helena Esser. Dandies, Desire, and Decadent Legacies: Homoeroticism and Homosociality in the Works of Ouida, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Yukio Mishima

Diana Maltz. “Here presented nonsequentially, and in a new relation to one another”: Primary Source Work and the Quest for Empathy in Tom Crewe’s The New Life

Rachel M. Friars. “My heart is a hand reaching”: Lesbian Yearning in Neo-Victorian Fictions

Charlotte Boyce. The Search for a Liveable Life: George Sand, Scandal and Queer Possibility in Briefly, A Delicious Life

Reviews

Andrew King reviews Gothic Italy: Crime, Science, and Literature after Unification, 1861–1914 by Stefano Serafini

Helen McKenzie reviews The Factory Girl by Mary Elizabeth Braddon,edited by Bridget M. Marshall 

Rose Blacher reviews Narrative, Affect and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies by Tara MacDonald

Sophia C. Jochem reviews The Verse of Charles Dickens, edited by Lydia Craig and Emily Middleton

Contributors