“THE DAILYGRAPH,”
No search results for this paper. Could be The Daily Telegraph although i couldn't find any sources that the paper went by this name.
The Daily Telegraph is referred to by name later in this novel making it unlikely to be the same newspaper.
To begin, have you ever study the philosophy of crime? ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ You, John, yes; for it is a study of insanity. You, no, Madam Mina; for crime touch you not—not but once. Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale. There is this peculiarity in criminals. It is so constant, in all countries and at all times, that even police, who know not much from philosophy, come to know it empirically, that it is. That is to be empiric. The criminal always work at one crime—that is the true criminal who seems predestinate to crime, and who will of none other. This criminal has not full man-brain. He is clever and cunning and resourceful; but he be not of man-stature as to brain. He be of child-brain in much. Now this criminal of ours is predestinate to crime also; he, too, have child-brain, and it is of the child to do what he have done.
Criminal as a personality, an identity. Criminals are inherently separate from the rest of society and different from "normal" people.
Jack Straw’s Castle
Public house aka bar named after leader of the Peasant's Revolt in the 14th century.
A modern look at the location.
"Jack Straw's Castle, Hampstead, NW3" by Ewan-M is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Byron
corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialisation. No? Nor in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading of thought. No? Nor in hypnotism——”
Mystic practices that were growing in popularity, like seances (Arthur Conan Doyle). Hypnotism however has been accepted as a scientific method.
it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all
This was a time of great disagreement between science and it's professions vs. the Church and legends.
Ellen Terry
The Westminster Gazette,
The Pall Mall Gazette,
There must be transfusion of blood at once. Is it you or me?”
Absolutely no discussion of blood type as that was unknown at the time.
wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water
Due to factory pollution, this is the beginning stages of the industrial revolution.
descriptive special article for The Daily Telegraph
Some of the “New Women” writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won’t condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too!
Mina knows that women's roles are changing. Though she is progressive for the time she does so safely, these women go even further and are judged.
Just now she was quite upset by a little thing which I did not much heed, though I am myself very fond of animals. One of the men who came up here often to look for the boats was followed by his dog. The dog is always with him. They are both quiet persons, and I never saw the man angry, nor heard the dog bark. During the service the dog would not come to its master, who was on the seat with us, but kept a few yards off, barking and howling. Its master spoke to it gently, and then harshly, and then angrily; but it would neither come nor cease to make a noise. It was in a sort of fury, with its eyes savage, and all its hairs bristling out like a cat’s tail when puss is on the war-path. Finally the man, too, got angry, and jumped down and kicked the dog, and then took it by the scruff of the neck and half dragged and half threw it on the tombstone on which the seat is fixed. The moment it touched the stone the poor thing became quiet and fell all into a tremble. It did not try to get away, but crouched down, quivering and cowering, and was in such a pitiable state of terror that I tried, though without effect, to comfort it. Lucy was full of pity, too, but she did not attempt to touch the dog, but looked at it in an agonised sort of way.
Animal welfare. Lucy is becoming inhuman and a threat to "good" creatures.
a few of the members of the S. P. C. A., which is very strong in Whitby,
Animal welfare. The S.P.C.A. (also R.S.P.C.A) was fairly new at this time.
sleep-walkers always go out on roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place.
This phenomenon was recorded in newspapers, usually to hide a suicide. Somnambulism was used in relation to crimes with young women, almost as an alibi.
Men sneered at vivisection
Experimental surgery on live animals. Animal welfare was beginning to become a huge topic for England, mostly about work horses and dogs. (See previous annotation about hierarchy of animals).
strong jaw and the good forehead
Physiognomy, judgement of character based on facial features. A popular pseudoscience of Victorian society.
I was becoming hypnotised
Mystic practice that is becoming scientific around this time.
he had begun too early on his expected debauch
Lower classes of England were associated with drunkenness and debauchery
Of course, Arthur wore black, for he was in deep mourning, but the rest of us wore it by instinct
that such a thing is here in London in the nineteenth century?
English society is supposed to be civil and advanced, not terrorized by creatures like vampiric bats, or worse vampires themselves.
Have not heard from Seward for three days, and am terribly anxious. Cannot leave. Father still in same condition. Send me word how Lucy is. Do not delay.—Holmwood.
The bond of these men takes precedence over their love for Lucy. Male relationships were very important during this time and thought to be the strongest bond.
using the words “Pall Mall Gazette” as a sort of talisman
A good reputation, people like it and are willing to help its employees
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
Psychology was getting really into the deeper conscious that people may be unaware of
The Society to Encourage Studies at Home is a 19th century network of women who connect across the continent over the postal system