Kingstones study effectively builds on the work of previous scholars particularly regarding the nineteenth-century panorama by tying the panoramic perspective to the notion of writing ones history. Scholars of the visual and material will find Kingstones study a timely intervention in the field, offering a new perspective on how the Victorians saw themselves and their history. (Michelle Reynolds, BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 24 (1), 2024)
Helen Kingstoneis a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her first book,Victorian Narratives of the Recent Past: Memory, History, Fiction, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.She co-chaired a Wellcome Trust-funded Humanities and Social Sciences network on Generations from 2019 to 2021, and has been a co-director of the Centre for Research on Ageing and Generations at the University of Surrey.