Mentions of the Athenaeum in the Victorian Web

Social History

• "Condition of the Women and the Female Children" (18 March 1843)

Literature

• Thomas Carlyle annoyed at The Athenaeum advertised his work
• Diana Mulock Craik compared to Nathaniel Hawthorne and Hans Christian Andersen (19 November 1853)
• Diana Mulock Craik mocked for her support of women's rights (1870 and 1871)
• Athenaeum rated Elizabeth Gaskell as "if not the most popular . . . the most powerful and finished female novelist of an epoch singularly rich in female novelists." (November 1865)
• W. E. Henley's essays on Thackeray, Disraeli, Meredith, and Arnold
• Christina Rossetti publishes first poems in The Athenaeum
• Matthew Arnold's letter about J. H. Newman
• Edmund Gosse on Coventry Patmore
• Reviewer criticizes Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native for its use of archaic dialect (23 November 1878)

Painting and Sculpture

• Praise for Frederick Leighton's David (29 April 1865)
• Frank Stone reviews the PRB (June 1849)
• John Linnell's letter to the editors
• On fairy painting (July 1867)
• F. G. Stephens's obituary of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (15 April 1882)
• Reviewer praises John Wright Oakes, ARA

Science

• Condition of Botonay (1857)
• Samuel Butler writes letters attacking Darwin

Last modified 12 October 2005