Contemporary historians of the British military expedition to Abyssinia (hereafter called Ethiopia) generally ascribed the source of the Ethiopian conflict to the lack of a reply from Queen Victoria to a letter from Tewodros II, in which he requested military aid and the exchang…
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Bringing the Tiger into the Parlor: The Consumption of Exotic Objects in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel considers the ways foreign objects are exotified through consumption and display in the domestic settings of novels by Susan Ferrier, Benjamin Disraeli, William Makepeac…
The lengthy Victorian period, extending from 1832 until 1901, was a time of cultural turmoil. New scientific discoveries were being made daily, and Christianity was forced to deal with issues of Darwinism, occultism, and growing disbelief in God. By the start of the fin de siècl…
Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler (1828-1906) was the premier feminist in nineteenth-century Great Britain. She was involved in campaigns to extend to women social, economic, legal, political, educational, employment, and suffrage rights equal to those extended to men. She success…
Dr. John Clifford (1836-1923) was an influential English Baptist minister and active Christian Socialist. He held many leadership positions such as President of the London Baptist Association in 1879, President of the Baptist Union in 1888 and 1896, first President of the Baptis…