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Articles

Aspects of Norwich
  • Mr Norwich:  RH Mottram, Spring 2019
Be Kind
  • The Sound of Silence - The Quiet Garden Movement, June 2019
Norwich Evening News
  • ​​Norwich Society Column. September 4, 2018
Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine
  • ​Soul Building, January/Februrary 2019
  • Putting the Ark in Architecture, September 2018
discover greateranglia
  • Off the Page, Spring 2018
Psychologies Magazine
  • Heart & Soul, December 2017
EDP Norfolk
  • Inspired by Christopher Robin, September 2017
  • 50 Years on From the Summer of Love, 2017
Country Life
  • Ahead of Her Time: Lilias Rider Haggard.  December 9, 2015
Suffolk and Norfolk Life
  • Freud's Hidden Walberswick. April 2018
  • ​An Envoy from India: Satish Kumar. An interview with the retiring editor of Resurgence magazine. January 2017
  • The Aldeburgh Suffragist: Millicent Garrett Fawcett, October 1996
  • With Newbolt in Hentyland interview with Henry Newbolt’s grandson Peter, May 1997
  • Pat Barr: A Curious life for a Girl (Isabella Bird in Japan) November 1997
  • An Egyptologist in Norfolk, October 1998
London Magazine
  • Pathways to Art (Norwich School of Painters), August 2008
Norfolk Journal
  • King of the Castles (Ian Weekley, military model maker), January 1999
  • Cromer in Egypt (Lord Cromer – Baring family in Norfolk), November 1999
  • Young Guns – The Three Sons of General Bulwer, (Bulwer family, Heydon) July 2000
  • Serving Norfolk Well (Walter Rye – Norfolk antiquarian), August 2000
  • Brothers in Arms ( Baines brothers – artists from King’s Lynn), April 2001
  • Poetry in Motion (Thomas Shadwell, Poet Laureate 1689), May 2001
  • The Good Life (North Walsham) –June 2001
  • The Upcher Diary (WW1 diary of Edith Upcher, Sheringham), August 2001
  • The Galsworthy Saga (Ada Galsworthy in Norwich), May 2002
  • Priestess in Poppyland (Dion Fortune, occultist), July 2002
  • Frankenstein’s Beginnings (William Godwin – Guestwick and Norwich), October 2002
  • The Virgin Bride, The White Cat of Holkham (Lady Mary Campbell and Viscount Coke) December 2002
  • Printer’s Mark (Luke Hansard- St Mary Coslaney, Norwich), January 2004
  • King of Nagasaki (Frederick Ringer, merchant in Japan, Rosary Cemetery), August 2004.
Artseast Magazine
  • ​​Performance: A Night of Peking Opera – August 2004.

Interviews

  • Ann Thwaite (biography of Emily Tennyson) – The Poet’s Wife – Norfolk Journal – September 1997
  • Frances Fyfield in Wells-next-the-Sea – Norfolk Journal – March 1998
  • Christopher West (author of The Third Messiah) – East Meets West – Norfolk Journal January 2001
  • Henry Paston-Bedingfeld (York Herald) – Hark the Herald – Norfolk Journal - Nov 2003
  • Kathryn Hughes (biography of Mrs Beeton) – A Modern Classic – Norfolk Journal -October 2004.
  • The Dark Enigma of Anna Sewell (Adrienne Gavin),
  • Behind the Dark Enigma of Anna Sewell – Eastern Daily Press July 6 2002
  • The Legacy of Black Beauty for The People’s Friend 2007 Holiday Special (under pseudonym)
  • A Tale to be Told – Patience Tomlinson’s one-man show portraying the Norfolk writer Mary Mann – Eastern Daily Press, March 7 2003.

Promotion

With a background in writing on-air television promotion copy Victoria wrote numerous articles circa 2001-3 for Industry and European Market Magazine, for example: “Shaping the Trends” on plastic extrusion technology; “Grooming for Growth” on Shwarzkopf-Henkel KG cosmetics sales.

Biography

Victoria's first foray into publishing was researching and editing hitherto unknown manuscripts: The Japan Diaries of Richard Gordon Smith (Viking/Rainbird 1986). She also wrote about his nine siblings in Children of the Empire: The Victorian Haggards (Gollancz 1996).

Fiction

  • The Colours of Love for The People’s Friend July 1998 (pseudonym)
  • The Making of Promises for The People’s Friend (publication circa 2000 – pseudonym).

Film and Performance

Picture
  • The Haunted Hotel, 2017. A compendium of eight ghost stories, by different authors,  all set within an abandoned hotel in Suffolk.  Victoria's story is called Room 27b and is set in 1950s Ipswich.​​
  • Victoria wrote and co-produced King Romance, a one-hour drama/ documentary on the life and filmed novels of Sir Henry Rider Haggard (Seventh House Films 1993)
  • Victoria devised a rural dérive at Holkham : Sous Les Pavés: The Beach. Psychogeography at Holkham Hall – a Power Point presentation at the Norwich Arts Centre (2006).


Scholarship

  • Scholarship for The Literary Encyclopedia – Biography of H. Rider Haggard KBE (1856-1925)
  • An essay based on Biography with Intent, her MA dissertation on Ernest Weekley, was published by the Journal of the DH Lawrence Studies Volume 2, Number 2 (2010)
  • In 2009 she gave a paper on biographical approaches to C.J. Jung (Did You Myth Me?)  at the ‘History, Mystery and Myth’ conference at the University of East Anglia.
  • Victoria's biographical work on the painter Gilbert Spencer (brother of Stanley Spencer)  and the Spencer family was incorporated into the Gilbert Spencer website in autumn 2012 with acknowledgment on this page.
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