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This article examines the ways in which ghost stories by Robert Hichens (1864-1950) inhabit the repressive sexual climate that followed the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895. Through a close reading of Tongues of Conscience (1900), and particularly 'How Love Came to Professor Guildea', it argues that Hichens used the ghost story as a mask for more complex investigations of homoeroticism, desire, and denial, and that the 'morbidity' contemporary critics recognized but could not pin down is closely linked to the story's sexual ambivalence.

Titanic biographer Bruce Beveridge writes: 'The Titanic's steering wheel acted as did the wheel on all British vessels of the era in that it was turned in the opposite direction to the helm command.

This is what makes the book, which draws from his diaries and an unfinished autobiography, not just a gripping read but also an intensely poignant one. One day he treats himself to some expensive hair oil: 'Every morning when I take a drop I wonder whether I shall live to finish the bottle; a sort of feeling of academic interest.' His all-too-brief home leaves were a special wrench: 'The last day is always rather terrible. And then going round to see the children just before leaving for the train. They are always asleep and look so attractive. It is unlikely that life can provide much worse partings than these.' That was before they got to the enemy. If they ever did, their prospects were not good. In a typical piece of insane, early- war stinginess, the authorities had decided to arm the boats with only measly .303 calibre machine guns, which weren't nearly a match for the powerful cannons on their German rivals' E-Boats. [Hitch]'s greatest achievement, before his death, was to see the MGB fleet armed with something slightly more effective than popguns.

[Robert Hichens] wants to carve out a specialist niche working for financial services, oil and gas, and mining companies, hoping to capitalise on the boom in natural resources sector flotations. In the first half of the year, it raised pounds 48m for its corporate clients and has also grown its private client funds under management to more than pounds 120m.

Robert Hichens 1782-1865. Family wealth based on Cornish pilchard fishing.