Dinah Birch

Dinah Birch is a pro-vice chancellor and professor of English at the University of Liverpool.

In the LRB Archive:

• Proper Ghosts: ‘The Monk’ · 16 June 2016

  • The Monk by Matthew Lewis

• Cosmic Interference: Janet Davey’s Fiction · 8 October 2015

  • Another Mother’s Son by Janet Davey

• The Iron Way: Family History · 19 February 2015

  • Common People: The History of an English Family by Alison Light

• Sisters come second: Siblings · 26 April 2012

  • Thicker than Water: Siblings and Their Relations 1780-1920 by Leonore Davidoff

• Young, Pleasant, Cheerful, Tidy, Bustling, Quiet: Mrs Dickens · 3 February 2011

  • The Other Dickens: A Life of Catherine Hogarth by Lillian Nayder

• 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: Jacqueline Rose’s take on Proust · 7 February 2002

  • Albertine by Jacqueline Rose

• Never Seen a Violet: 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: 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: John Ruskin · 10 August 2000

  • John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton

• No wonder it ached: 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: 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: 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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