George Henry Kingsley]]> Manuscripts]]> George Richmond]]> Portraits]]> London Magazine and Blackwood’s. His volume of Poems (1833) was well received by critics and readers alike.]]> Hartley Coleridge]]> Books]]> Westward Ho! and The Water-Babies. In the 1850s, Henry spent four years in Australia, working in the goldfields, but never made his fortune. The experience informed several of his novels, including the once-popular Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn (1859). Here is an early 20th-century adaptation of the novel for young Australasian readers.]]> Henry Kingsley]]> Books]]> The Scottish Chiefs (1810), which offered a romantic retelling of the William Wallace narrative, predated Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley novels. The work was especially popular in the United States, as evidenced here by an illustrated 1856 edition from New York.]]> Jane Porter]]> Books]]> The Scottish Chiefs (1810), was still popular in the United States long after it was first published, as shown here in this Classics Illustrated comic from 1950.]]> Jane Porter]]> Books]]> Series of Plays, suggests their closeness and perhaps points to the influence of his medical studies on her own analyses of human nature.]]> Joanna Baillie]]> Books]]> A Series of Plays appeared in 1798, it caused a stir. Who was the author of this striking work? Some thought it must be the leading writer of the day, Walter Scott. The author was revealed in the third edition as Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), a niece of John and William Hunter. While her uncles and brother Matthew explored human anatomy, Joanna explored the varieties of human passions.]]> Joanna Baillie]]> Books]]> John Aikin]]> Books]]> Punch cartoonist, John Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), imagines Wilde in soldier’s uniform, poking fun at Wilde’s national identity, the troubled production history of his French play Salome (1891), and English censorship.]]> John Bernard Partridge]]> Periodicals]]> A Treatise on the Blood.]]> John Hunter]]> Books]]> Memoirs (1820) Richard wrote, ‘[Maria] is my pupil, my literary partner, and my friend’. Richard influenced Maria’s novel writing. As a teenager, she recorded her father’s stories about an imagined Irish family, later reworking them into her novel Patronage (1814).]]> Maria and R. L. Edgeworth]]> Books]]> Mary H. Kingsley]]> Books]]> A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is a founding text of modern feminism. In the decade leading up to this monumental work, Mary helped establish a school for girls and wrote the conduct book Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), and the novel Mary: A Fiction (1788). In all of these works, she argued that women deserved rational educations and greater individual rights in order to be better wives and mothers. But her opportunity to put this philosophy into action was short lived. She died just days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.]]> Mary Wollstonecraft]]> Books]]> Culture and Anarchy, written in response to the Reform Bill of 1867, presents his view of an idealised English society: a society defined not by social class but by its access to ‘culture’, ‘the best which has been thought and said in the world’. Arnold believed such knowledge would turn ‘a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits’.]]> Matthew Arnold]]> Books]]> Matthew Baillie]]> Books]]> Mrs Humphrey Ward (Mary Augusta Ward)]]> Manuscripts]]> Mrs John Hunter]]> Books]]> The Ballad of Reading Gaol remained unsigned until the seventh edition, when printers included Wilde’s name in brackets on the title page. This illustrated copy is an edition printed in 1948 featuring engravings by Arthur Wragg.]]> Oscar Wilde]]> Books]]> A House of Pomegranates (1891) is Wilde’s second published collection of short stories, following The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde dedicated A House of Pomegranates to his wife Constance (1859-1898), a gesture interpreted by some as an implicit apology for his shortcomings as a husband and father to his two sons. Wilde purportedly said that this work was ‘intended neither for the British child nor the British public’, referring perhaps to the dark nature of the tales and their political allegories.]]> Oscar Wilde]]> Books]]> Patrick Branwell Bronte]]> Ephemera]]> Patrick Branwell Brontë]]> Portraits]]> Frankenstein (1818), shows the influence of both her parents’ thinking. Percy’s The Cenci uses the lurid story of a sixteenth-century Italian family to address a central human dilemma: should a moral individual employ violence to overthrow tyranny?]]> Percy Bysshe Shelley]]> Books]]> Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs Shelley]]> Books]]> Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Biography. In his later years, Richard turned to writing the lives of eminent British statesmen, including the National Colonisation Society founder, Edward Gibbon Wakefield. This copy of Garnett’s biography was previously owned by the Dunedin collector Dr Thomas Hocken.]]> Richard Garnett]]> Books]]>