The international G.W.M. Reynolds Society exists to promote the enjoyment and study of the work of G.W.M. Reynolds. Visit our Website: gwmreynoldssociety.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3msdsaakcrt2d‘The Gipsy-Boy’ Introduction by Stephen Knight This fairly short story, at 4400 words, shares a range of similarities, and reversals, with `Ellen Maxwell’. Rather than at sea, here the action is in the army in Britain, not far from London. The main characters are, as in the other story, an… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/08/05/the-gipsy-boy/05 Aug 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdsaakcrt2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3mplrw4u3j22k‘Ellen Maxwell’ Introduction by Stephen Knight First appearing in April 1841 in The Teetotaler, a journal Reynolds started in June 1840, but left in September 1841, this story of nearly 5000 words was reprinted in Reynolds’ Miscellany as late as September 1868, when Reynolds had given up writing… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/07/01/ellen-maxwell/01 Jul 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mplrw4u3j22khttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3mnfeu7nyht2e‘The Two Sisters’ Introduction By Stephen Knight This distinctly short story, of only 2800 words, is one of the six reprinted here which appeared in Master Timothy’s Bookcase, or The Magic Lanthorn of the World. This was first published as a monthly series in 1841-2, then as a book, and also… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/06/03/the-two-sisters/03 Jun 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfeu7nyht2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3mmz4vc2gxp2xShort Stories from the Knight Collection Public Hello! Hopefully you've been enjoying reading the monthly releases of GWM Reynolds' short stories with Doctor Knight's introductions. While those blog posts will continue to be released monthly, and we hope you'll continue to read and engage with… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/05/29/short-stories-from-the-knight-collection-public/29 May 2026 18:07 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmz4vc2gxp2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3ml6xrgotax2g‘The Two Christmas Days’ Introduction By Stephen Knight This story was published in Reynolds’s Miscellany on December 29th, 1860, and then in The Young Fisherman (1864). In that collection, as well as three novellas (see A General Introduction) he reprinted a number of earlier-published short… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/05/06/the-two-christmas-days/06 May 2026 15:01 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml6xrgotax2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3migxh43bwf2nA General Introduction to “The Short Stories of W. G. M. Reynolds” By Stephen Knight 1. George William Macarthur Reynolds (1814-79) was the most widely-read novelist of the nineteenth century in Britain. He published over twenty million words in novels – five times as much as Dickens and twice as… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/04/01/a-general-introduction-to-the-short-stories-of-w-g-m-reynolds/01 Apr 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3migxh43bwf2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3mgakduvzrs2tAn Announcement Hello! My name is Katelyn, and I am an undergraduate literature and history student working with the G. W. M. Reynolds society to release some of Reynolds’s short stories. Curated by Dr. Stephen Knight, Professor Emeritus at the University of Melbourne, these stories have been… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/03/04/an-announcement/04 Mar 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgakduvzrs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3mg622yqipx2pA Preface to “The Short Stories of G. W. M. Reynolds” By Stephen Knight Having worked and published on Reynolds’ fiction for some years, starting with his grand The Mysteries of London as a major example of the mid-nineteenth century ‘Mysteries’ genre, and then moving through all his novels in my… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/03/03/a-preface-to-the-short-stories-of-g-w-m-reynolds/03 Mar 2026 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg622yqipx2phttps://bsky.app/profile/gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social/post/3mfc34ep6rv2pIntroductory Post from New Board Member Sucheta Bhattacharya By Sucheta Bhattacharya My acquaintance with the novels of George William MacArthur Reynolds happened around 1996-97 when I was introduced to The Mysteries of London. It was not the mammoth compendium of colourful and riotous episodes… http://gwmreynoldssociety.com/2026/02/20/introductory-post-from-new-board-member-sucheta-bhattacharya/20 Feb 2026 12:07 +0000at://did:plc:avda3bpyf5ufkndmsrv4b6cs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfc34ep6rv2p