The Long Victorian is a blog dedicated to books written during the Long Nineteenth Century, from 1789 (the year of the French Revolution) through 1914 (the advent of World War I). The blog is maintained by a self-described "interested reader" who has worked as a librarian and in the book trade. The blog contains detailed book reviews of books that were either written during the Long Victorian or are set in the time period, along with musings other Victorian-related topics. Recently reviewed titles include Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall About (set in the late-nineteenth century). Another recent blog post considers the nineteenth-century books that might be considered the precursors to the so-called Golden Age of Detective Fiction (1920s-1930s). Visitors may also enjoy a whimsical pair of blog posts that consider the Victorian doppelgangers of contemporary celebrities, which can be found in the blog highlights section.