This article considers the Victorian and Edwardian vogue for setting late-Victorian decadent poetry to music. It examines particular appeal of Ernest Dowson's Arthur Symons's verse composers Cyril Scott Frederick Delius, whose Songs Sunset (1911) was regarded as “quintessential expression fin-de-siècle spirit,” discusses contribution women musicians—particularly that Irish composer translator A...

We aimed to determine whether the Victorian measles surveillance system had missed hospitalised cases of measles during an inter-epidemic period. We searched the Victorian Inpatient Minimum Dataset (VIMD) for the period 1 January 1997 to 30 June 1998 to identify patients with ICD-9 discharge codes for measles (055). The data were compared with that held in the Victorian measles surveillance dat...

Through an examination of previously unseen archival records, including patients' letters, this article examines the treatment and experiences of patients in late Victorian Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum and stakes the place of this institution within the broader history of therapeutic regimes in British asylums. Two main arguments are put forth. The first relates to the evolution of treatme...

THE theme of this paper1 is the Victorian ideological divide between the public sphere (viewed as a masculine domain concerned with paid work and national politics), and the private sphere (viewed as a female domain concerned with home and family). These contrasts were in some respects ancient ones: the political dimension of public masculine persons and private female persons going back at lea...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the Victorian mandatory personal flotation device wearing regulations that came into effect on 1 December 2005 reduced drowning deaths among recreational boaters in Victoria, Australia. DESIGN A retrospective population-based 'before and after' study using Victorian coronial data on drowning deaths of occupants of recreational vessels operating in Victorian wa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of bicycling injuries and bicycle injury characteristics in the Victorian population. DESIGN Review of prospectively collected data. SETTING Bicycling injury data were extracted from four datasets for the period July 2001 to June 2006: (i) emergency department (ED) presentations from the Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset; (ii) hospital admissions fro...

The aim of this study is to examine Charlotte Bronte‘s contribution to the feminist question in her selected novel Jane Eyre. The study shows how Bronte‘s novel examines the suffering of women and how they could overcome difficulties and achieve success.It is clear that Charlotte ideology in her portrayal of her heroine based on her real world, established herself as a distinguished feminist wo...

Hutcheon identifies as ‘historiographic metafiction’ those pieces of fiction that expose our cultural perception past events is changing and malleable (129). Even though Hutcheon’s theory historiographic metafiction has been mainly applied to from the post-modern era, certain elements historical inspiration can be traced back Victorian period. In this article, I propose turn popular theatre mid...