Review of Penny, A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong

Authors

  • Sheldon Goldfarb University of British Columbia, Canada

Abstract

Review of A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong: The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855-1856. Ed. Benjamin Penny. Canberra: ANU Press, 2023. xii + 222 pp. ISBN 97871760465919

Author Biography

  • Sheldon Goldfarb , University of British Columbia, Canada

    Sheldon Goldfarb has a PhD from the University of British Columbia, where he specialized in the writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and produced an edition of Thackeray’s first novel, Catherine. He now specializes in the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, and is working on an edition of Conan Doyle’s study of literature, Through the Magic Door. He has also published Sherlockian Musings: Thoughts on the Sherlock Holmes Stories (2019) and a novel, Remember, Remember (2005), set in the Victorian period and featuring a 14-year-old hero.

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Published

2025-06-18

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Book Reviews

How to Cite

Goldfarb , S. (2025). Review of Penny, A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 29(1), 67-68. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article/view/21145