Abstract
“Mr. Lewis’s book is safe to be popular”: Domesticity and Familial Magic in Conjurer Dick (1885) and the Victorian Popular Press
Highlights
Conjurer Dick, the 1885 novel by Angelo Lewis, topped several “books for Christmas presents” lists the year it was published
Exploring King Koko is interesting in terms of tracing Lewis’s development in depicting female characters and the transition from magic as a purely masculine occupation to one that could be undertaken by women
King Koko follows the exploits of a “pretty princess” named Belinda and her struggles against the villainous Baron von Schwindelheim and others
Summary
“Mr Lewis’s book is safe to be popular”: Domesticity and Familial Magic in Conjurer Dick, the 1885 novel by Angelo Lewis, topped several “books for Christmas presents” lists the year it was published. Rather than focus on the explicit onstage magic performed by Vosper and Dick, I shall focus more upon Lewis’s presentation of the domestic magic facilitated by the novel’s female characters and the offstage impacts of conjuring upon the familial unit.
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