Whitman on Robert Burns: An Early Essay Recovered

Introduces and presents a previously lost 1875 essay by Whitman on the Scottish poet Robert Burns

Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde: A Biographical Note

Notes several previously unrecorded newspaper accounts of Oscar Wilde\u27s 1882 visit to Whitman in Camden, including an extended account in the Cincinnati Gazette a month after the visit

A Sheaf of Uncollected Nineteenth-Century Whitman Notices and Reviews

Lists and quotes relevant parts of "eight items in nineteenth-century magazines and newspapers that have been hitherto lost to Whitman scholarship," including mentions in 1841 and 1842 of Whitman\u27s early fiction in the New York Tribune, an 1856 review of Leaves of Grass in Dublin Review, 1865 reviews of Drum-Taps in the Independent and San Francisco Bulletin, an 1882 review of Leaves in Boston Sunday Globe, and 1882 reviews of Specimen Days in the New York Sun and the Philadelphia Press

Whitman and Kate Field

Documents American feminist journalist, lecturer, and actor Kate Field\u27s (1838-1896) admiration for Whitman

Rediscovered Nineteenth-Century Whitman Articles

Reprints previously unnoticed items about Whitman from late nineteenth-century newspapers by "E. K." in the Springfield Republican, Richard Maurice Bucke in the Philadelphia Press, William Hosea Ballou in the Chicago Tribune, and an unsigned piece in the Philadelphia Enquirer

The Victorian Newsletter (Spring 2006)

The Victorian Newsletter is sponsored for the Victorian Group of the Modern Language Association by Western Kentucky University and is published twice annually.Scandalous Sensations: The Woman in White on the Victorian Stage / Maria K. Bachman -- Nostalgia to Amnesia: Charles Dickens, Marcus Clarke and Narratives of Australia's Convict Origins / Beth A. Boehm -- The Epigraph to Henley's In Hospital / Edward H. Cohen -- Emily Brontë's Pedagogy of Desire in Wuthering Heights / Amy Carol Reeves -- Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: The Gaps in the Record / Gary Scharnhorst -- Metaphoric Mules: Dickens's Tom Gradgrind and Dante's Vanni Fucci / Ernest Fontana -- A Husband's Tragedy: The Relationship between Art and Life in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband / Carol Schnitzer -- Coming In Victorian Newsletter -- Books Receive