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Dinah Birch

Dinah Birch’s new book, Our Victorian Education, will be published later this year.

Selected bibliography

  • Our Victorian Education (2007)
  • Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern (1999)
  • Ruskin’s Myths (1988)

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Land of Pure Delight · 20 April 2006

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subscriber-only content His Greatest Pretend · 1 September 2005

  • Hide-and-Seek with Angels: A Life of J.M. Barrie by Lisa Chaney  Buy this book

subscriber-only content Descent into Oddness · 6 January 2005

subscriber-only content How one has enjoyed things · 2 December 2004

  • Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie by Henrietta Garnett

subscriber-only content Want-of-Tin and Want-of-Energy · 20 May 2004

  • The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Formative Years 1835-62: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk. Volume One edited by William Fredeman
  • The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Formative Years 1835-62: Charlotte Street to Cheyne Walk. Volume Two edited by William Fredeman
  • William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis by Angela Thirlwell

subscriber-only content Delicious Sponge Cake · 9 October 2003

  • Stories by Elizabeth Stoddard, edited by Susanne Opfermann and Yvonne Roth

subscriber-only content Fond Father · 19 September 2002

  • Glimpses of the Wonderful: The Life of Philip Henry Gosse 1810-88 by Ann Thwaite

Wintry Lessons · 27 June 2002

  • The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner

subscriber-only content A Mere Piece of Furniture · 7 February 2002

subscriber-only content Never Seen a Violet · 6 September 2001

  • Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman by Catherine Robson

subscriber-only content Long Hair, Young Hair, Braided and Defiant Hair · 10 May 2001

Fear among the Teacups · 8 February 2001

  • East Lynne by Ellen Wood, edited by Andrew Maunder

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 not available in archive Old Lecturer of Incalculable Age · 10 August 2000

  • John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton

 not available in archive No wonder it ached · 13 May 1999

  • The Journals of George Eliot edited by Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston
  • George Eliot: The Last Victorian by Kathryn Hughes

 not available in archive Grubbing · 21 January 1999

  • Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority. The Anne Lister Diaries and Other Writings 1833-36 edited by Jill Liddington

 not available in archive One of the Cracked · 1 October 1998

  • Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon: Feminist, Artist and Rebel by Pam Hirsch

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