Josephine Hoegaerts (@singingarchives.bsky.social)

Very excited (and also quite proud) to see this article by Clarice Säävälä in print. It also features one of my favourite Victorian politicians and his weird voice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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‘Mere sound, conveying no meaning’ – Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s oratory struggles in the House of Commons, 1831–1841 & 1851–1866 This article examines the reasons for Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s failure to become unanimously successful as a parliamentary orator in the nineteenth century. Bulwer-Lytton’s speeches were often praise... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02606755.2025.2464369?src=exp-la