The Ethel Dickens Project
This is a resource-in-process that assists in a biographical project of recovery, documentation, and analysis, attending to the personal and professional lives of Ethel Kate Dickens (1864-1936).
Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood: A Romance
Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood: A Romance (1845-7) is one of the longest-running and most successful Victorian penny fiction serials, popularly termed "penny bloods." Written primarily by James Malcolm Rymer, the creator of penny fiction villain Sweeney Todd, as one of the top writers at Edward Lloyd's Salisbury Square penny fiction factory, Varney is an innovative, wide-ranging contribution to nineteenth-century British vampire lore.