Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland

Olive Schreiner's Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) gives voice to one of the most powerful and uncompromising denunciations of imperial violence published in the nineteenth century, and yet the work stands largely unread by students of Victorian literature. The novella, set in Rhodesia under Company Rule, depicts an encounter between a young British soldier lost in the veld and a mysterious Christ-like stranger who transforms his views on colonialism.

Concerning Geffray Teste Noire

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Illustrations by George Brinsley Sheridan Le Fanu (Le Fanu’s son) to “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter.”

Illustrations by George Brinsley Sheridan Le Fanu (Le Fanu’s son) to “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter.” In Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The Watcher and Other Weird Stories.With Twenty-one Illustrations [and a Preface] by Brinsley Sheridan Le Fanu. London: Downey, 1894: 126-68. 

“Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter.” By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The Purcell Papers. 3 Vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1880: 2.184-254.

“Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter.” By Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. The Purcell Papers. 3 Vols. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1880: 2.184-254.

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