Dinah Birch

Dinah Birch is the author of Our Victorian Education. She teaches at Liverpool University and is the general editor of the new edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature.

In the LRB Archive:

• The Perfect Plot Device: Governesses · 17 July 2008

  • Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess by Ruth Brandon

• Very Pointed: Pugin · 20 September 2007

  • God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill

• Little was expected of Annie: The Story of an English Family · 19 October 2006

  • Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind: The Cloughs and Their Circle 1820-1960 by Gillian Sutherland

• Land of Pure Delight: Anglicising the Holy Land · 20 April 2006

  • The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism by Eitan Bar-Yosef

• His Greatest Pretend: the man behind Pan · 1 September 2005

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

• Descent into Oddness: Peter Rushforth’s long-awaited second novel · 6 January 2005

  • Pinkerton’s Sister by Peter Rushforth

• How one has enjoyed things: Thackeray’s daughter · 2 December 2004

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

• Want-of-Tin and Want-of-Energy: The lives of the Rossettis · 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

• Delicious Sponge Cake: Elizabeth Stoddard, Crusader against Duty · 9 October 2003

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

• Fond Father: A Victorian Naturalist · 19 September 2002

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

• Wintry Lessons: Anita Brookner · 27 June 2002

  • The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner

• A Mere Piece of Furniture on Jacqueline Rose’s take on Proust · 7 February 2002

  • Albertine by Jacqueline Rose

• Never Seen a Violet on Victorian men and girls · 6 September 2001

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

• Long Hair, Young Hair, Braided and Defiant Hair on Lavinia Greenlaw · 10 May 2001

  • Mary George of Allnorthover by Lavinia Greenlaw

• Fear among the Teacups: Ellen Wood · 8 February 2001

  • East Lynne by Ellen Wood, edited by Andrew Maunder

• Old Lecturer of Incalculable Age on John Ruskin · 10 August 2000

  • John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton

• No wonder it ached on George Eliot · 13 May 1999

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

• Grubbling on Anne Lister · 21 January 1999

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

• One of the Cracked on Barbara Bodichon · 1 October 1998

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

• The Unwritten Fiction of Dead Brothers · 2 October 1997

  • Elizabeth Gaskell: The Early Years by John Chapple

• A Year upon the Sofa · 8 May 1997

  • Eve’s Renegades: Victorian Anti-Feminist Women Novelists by Valerie Sanders

• Defence of the Housefly · 14 November 1996

  • Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy edited by Michael Millgate

• Getting to Tombstone · 17 October 1996

  • ‘People for Lunch’ and ‘Spoilt’ by Georgina Hammick
  • The Arizona Game by Georgina Hammick

• Baby Brothers · 18 April 1996

  • Love, Again by Doris Lessing
  • Playing the Game by Doris Lessing, illustrated by Charlie Adlard

• George’s Hand · 7 March 1996

  • A Son at the Front by Edith Wharton

• Warming My Hands and Telling Lies · 3 August 1995

  • So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy
  • Now That You’re Back by A.L. Kennedy

• The Little Woman Inside · 9 March 1995

  • An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel

• Situations Vacant · 20 October 1994

  • The Servant’s Hand: English Fiction from Below by Bruce Robbins

• Back Home · 12 May 1994

  • Making Peace: The Reconstruction of Gender in Inter-war Britain by Susan Kingsley Kent

• Invalided home · 21 October 1993

  • The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

• Common Sense and the Classics · 25 June 1992

  • Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance by Richard Jenkyns

• In praise of work · 24 October 1991

  • Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle by Teresa Newman and Ray Watkinson

• Interdisciplinarity · 27 June 1991

  • The Desire of My Eyes: A Life of John Ruskin by Wolfgang Kemp, translated by Jan Van Huerck

• Feminist Perplexities · 11 October 1990

  • Seductions: Studies in Reading and Culture by Jane Miller

• The Great Mary · 13 September 1990

  • Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-Eminent Edwardian by John Sutherland

• Out of the house · 30 August 1990

  • The Sign of Angellica: Women, Writing and Fiction, 1660-1800 by Janet Todd
  • Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian Britain by Mary Poovey
  • The Woman Question. Society and Literature In Britain and America, 1837-1883: Vols I-III edited by Elizabeth Helsinger, Robin Lauterbach Sheets and William Veeder
  • Sexual Science: The Victorian Construction of Womanhood by Cynthia Eagle Russett

• Womanism · 21 December 1989

  • The Temple of my Familiar by Alice Walker
  • The Fog Line by Carol Birch
  • Home Life Four by Alice Thomas Ellis
  • The Fly in the Ointment by Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Words of Love by Philip Norman

• Dark Spaces · 28 September 1989

  • People of the Black Mountains: The Beginning by Raymond Williams
  • The Politics of Modernism by Raymond Williams
  • A Natural Curiosity by Margaret Drabble

• Looking for magic · 14 September 1989

  • Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner
  • Sexing the cherry by Jeanette Winterson
  • Fludd by Hilary Mantel

• Other People · 6 July 1989

  • The Middleman, and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
  • The Burning Boys by John Fuller
  • Termination Rock by Gillian Freeman
  • Blackground by Joan Aiken

• The Medium in the Attic · 1 June 1989

  • The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England by Alex Owen

• Growing up · 20 April 1989

  • Passing on by Penelope Lively
  • The man who wasn’t there by Pat Barker
  • The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley
  • Give them all my love by Gillian Tindall
  • Storm in the Citadel by Kate Saunders

• Post-Feminism · 19 January 1989

  • Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood
  • Interlunar by Margaret Atwood
  • John Dollar by Marianne Wiggins
  • Broken Words by Helen Hodgman

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