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19th Century…

The Chartist Robin Hood: Thomas Miller’s “Royston Gower, or, The Days of King John” (1838)

4 Aug 20164 Aug 2016
The early nineteenth century witnessed two phenomenally successful Robin Hood novels: Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819) and Thomas Love Peacock’s Maid Marian (1822). After those two novels, authors took a break…
14th Century…

Wat Tyler: 18th- & 19th-Century Literary Afterlives

30 Jun 201630 Jun 2016
“When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?” - John Ball, Radical Preacher, 14th Century Late fourteenth-century England had its fair share of problems: socio-economic tensions had…
19th Century…

William Jones’ ‘A “Lytell Geste” of Robin Hood’ (1870)

26 Jun 2016
This is the second post in a series in which I have been transcribing little-known nineteenth-century Robin Hood poems. The New Monthly Magazine was published between 1814 and 1884. It…
15th Century…

Curteous Outlaws and Elizabethan Rogues: The 16th-Century Context of “A Gest of Robyn Hode”

7 Jun 2016
A conference paper to be delivered at the Forthcoming MEMS Festival, University of Kent, 17-18 June 2016. Introduction A number of excellent scholarly examinations have been carried out upon A…
15th Century…

Maid Marian in Victorian Penny Dreadfuls: A Proto-Feminist?

20 May 201621 May 2016
A paper read at the Women in Print Conference, Chetham's Library, Manchester 20 May 2016 Header image scanned from my personal copy of J. H. Stocqueler's Maid Marian the Forest…
11th Century…

The Legend of Robin Hood

4 May 20164 May 2016
A Forthcoming Public Talk to be delivered at Pontefract Castle, Sunday 8 May 2016 Introduction The Renaissance poet Michael Drayton authored a monumental work entitled Poly-Olbion which was published in…

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