In 18th-century gothic, music was a light melodic release from dramatic scares. But with the arrival of melodrama in the 19th ...

Analysing over 25 years of VCE lists revealed a rising proportion of works addressing social justice, identity, postcolonial ...

Pill testing will be available at four more festivals in Victoria – including two where multiple overdoses occurred.

“Wax Fruit was quite unusual for its time in that it concentrated on the lives of the Victorian middle classes in Glasgow. “It was very different from other Glasgow novels of the period, like the ...

The Allan Labor Government is investing in local creative talent and ideas by backing Victorian artists to deliver new work, build their careers and ...

From royals to renegades, Erin Doherty talks breaking class barriers, choosing acting over football, and the stars who’ve got ...

The celebrated Riverside Dickens Festival will return next month, but at an entirely new venue, featuring a range of entertainment that will convert a public space in downtown Riverside into Victorian ...

If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

The Riverside Dickens Festival will return next month, but at a new venue, featuring a range of entertainment that will ...

Like author J.K. Rowling, Mr. Winans takes significant inspiration from 19th-century British literature and culture ... “Myth of Man” is, in short, draped in Victorian nostalgia. The sepia-toned ...

We all know that with the coming of January we’re expected to “ring out the old and ring in the new.” We can thank poet ...