This is the commonplace book of Gertrude Lorimer. Editorial commentary provided by Aidan Collins.

Lucy Lorimer's Commonplace book

This is a Commonplace Book made by a New Woman during the Victorian Era.

This is the commonplace book for Gertrude Lormier. Editorial Commentary provided by Malea West. 

This is a commonplace book by a New Woman of the Victorian Era, editorial commentary provided by Jeff Bolch

The nineteenth century saw a new age of public health. Britons experienced rapid shifts in the theory and practice of medicine as a result of the professionalization of science, the rise of teaching hospitals, the emergence of new and often controversial or conflicting medical diagnoses, and the desire to find cures for recurring pandemics. Factory work, railroads, and urban living conditions during the Industrial Revolution also brought their own forms of injury and chronic disability as well as a new emphasis on the importance of able bodies. Charitable efforts and institutions in support of those with disabilities boomed, but at the same time, people with disabilities were increasingly ushered into workhouses and asylums. 

This exhibit looks at the Victorians' facination with and making of the disabled identity. It homes in on three subject groups: those sequestered spatially, like the invalid in the sickroom or freak in the freakshow; those whose disability allowed them...

1855 was the year of the first public exhibitions of what we now would call “war photography,” or “war photojournalism.” The first of the series formally opened on 20 September at the Water Colour Society in Pall Mall, London’s East End, taking advantage of public interest in the Crimean War, the expressed patronage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, and curiosity about the still relatively new art, or science of photography. There was debate at the time about to which photography belonged, art or science. Visitors observed, read about and discussed over three hundred “Photographic Pictures taken in The Crimea,” by Roger Fenton (1819-1869), a well-known photographer, and his assistant, “during the spring and summer of the present year” (Exhibition of the Photographic Pictures taken in The Crimea, passim). Sometimes referred to as the “Photographic Images from the Seat of War in the Crimea,” they went on public display in several venues in major British cities as...

An example of how to use the gallery builder for Clara Dawson's third year module on Global Victorians.

The Victorian period was one of great change for Britain. Comprised of the years of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837-1901), it featured the rapid industrialization and urbanization of Britain, and the radical expansion of the British empire. Although these changes improved the quality of life for some Victorians, many more were forced to work under inhumane conditions, live in unsanitary and insalubrious environments, or suffered the violent oppressions of colonial rule. While we may think of the Victorian period as a distant, different era, this class argues that Victorians faced some of the same issues we deal with today, including systemic racism, opioid addiction, ecological disasters, and public health crises, to name but a few. 

“Victorian Literature and Politics for the Present” revisits texts both familiar and new - canonical and not - through the lens of current events. Addressing a range of genres, this course examines historical and philosophical trends that shaped...

This timeline is part of ENGL 202's build assignment. Research a topic that teaches us something about race, class, gender, or sexuality and then contribute what you have learned to our shared class resource. As the assignment states, "Add one timeline element, one map element and one gallery image about race, class, gender, or sex to our collective resources in COVE Editions. Provide images, sources and sufficient detail to explain the historical or cultural element that you are presenting. Interlink the three objects." A few timeline elements have already been added (borrowing from BRANCH). 

Findens' Tableaux is a gift annual produced between 1837 and 1844. In this gallery, we have the text and accompanying engraving for 5 short stories or poems. 'Arabia: the Arab Maid' (poem by L.E.L.) and 'Africa: The Rescue' (prose by S.C. Hall) are from the 1837 edition (edited by Mrs S.C. Hall, London: . 'Ceylon: The Lost Pearl' (prose by Mrs Mitford), 'America: A Story of the Indian War' (prose by Mary Howitt), and 'Georgia: The Georgian Sisters' (prose by H. Harrison) and from the 1838 edition (edited by Mary Russell Mitford, London: Charles Tilt, 1838).

To read James Malcolm Rymer's A Mystery in Scarlet in its original publication context, accompanied by the other contents of The London Miscellany no. 1-18 (1866), please see the bound copy of that periodical in the collection of the Wells Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. A color facsimile can be accessed at Google Books. Here it is. 

Argument for the project.

 Frankenstein offers a critique of the Enlightenment and the excessive drive of science to obtain “proof” of life in the early 19th century through its portrayal of Victor’s monstrosity in his quest to act as God and father and his subsequent failure to understand his responsibility in those roles.