Victorians loved writing fan mail. Celebrities - historians included - were not necessarily equally thrilled about this specimen of modern fan culture: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...

Nice review for Dickensland in Victorian Studies muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... ... it's for anyone but I guess just academic enough to interest academics looking at literary tourism, history and heritage in London; or, indeed, Dickens.

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

VSAWC's next conference, on Victorian Trade, will take place in Winnipeg MB (Treaty One Territory) on May 1 and 2, 2026. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Sarah Fee (Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles; Royal Ontario Museum) as our plenary speaker. +

✨Call for reviewers ✨ There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter. It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review. Full details here 👇 bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

Reminder! We are accepting proposals for a forum on Daniel Deronda to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Our forums feature short, op-ed style essays guest-edited by leading scholars. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1. See our website for more details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

VR does not accept essay, forum, or book review submissions written with Generative AI. VR staff does not use AI assistance in our email correspondence or editorial practices. We work collectively to adjudicate, edit, publish, and promote scholarly writing. victorianreview.org?page_id=364

Check it out — Victorian Review has a new website!

I love this so much—can’t wait to try it!! ❤️❤️❤️

Abstracts due today, if anyone's still considering the 2026 Dickens Society panel at NeMLA!

meant to write brief chapter about 19C song-and-supper rooms in Covent Garden and its already 6,000 words. 'It's a subject you know about already,' I told myself. 'How many relevant sources can there be?'* [*every awful late-19C/early 20C memoir ever, as it turns out.]

SEL 63.3 summer issue is coming! A cite-worthy quote from one of our contributors Juliana Beykirch on embodiment in Aphra Behn's II Rover: “Her striking embodiment and verbal dexterity profoundly destabilize and collapse the boundaries between...erotic consumption and literal devouring.” (26) 🎙️

There's a Victorian periodicals story with a Chicago connection: the loss of Herbert Ingram, founder of the Illustrated London News, in the wreck of the Lady Elgin in Lake Michigan in 1860. His pocket watch, found at the bottom of the lake, has now returned to England: tinyurl.com/y763rhhv #C19th

Daniel Deronda is turning 150 in 2026. Help us observe this milestone by submitting a short, op-ed style essay to an upcoming forum, guest edited by Ilana Blumberg, on George Eliot's world-changing novel. See our blog for details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

Wooohooo! the crowd errupts with joy at learning that #RSVP2026 will be held at Trinity College Dublin, 23-25 July! 🥳 #RSVP2025

Reminder that the Hamilton Prize deadline is July 1! Get your essays in!

Hey grad students! Reminder: the Hamilton Prize deadline is coming up July 1. The winning essay gets publication in Victorian Review and $500 CAD. Visit the website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up: July 1, 2025. The winner will have their work published in the journal and receive $500 CAD. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358

🎶From reverent compositions to subversive street ballads🎶 Queen Victoria’s image was contested and co-opted through 19th-century popular song. Learn more about the monarch’s complex cultural after life in music: jvc.oup.com/2021/09/16/m...

See the call for @victorianpoetry.bsky.social’s 2025 Early Career Essay Prize (more info below & in the alt text) — please help me get the word out, with thanks!

I welcome the open access format, and, for art historians especially, the undertaking to publish exhibition reviews.

met this thing for the very first time yesterday at @peoplesbooktakoma.com— a weird feeling, truthfully, to see eight years of your life condensed into a 1-pound stack of paper. But it is very pretty & I hope some of you guys like it 🌿

CFP for a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review in honour of Brian Maidment:

Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? Consider submitting it to the Victorian Review’s Hamilton Prize. The winner gets publication in the journal and receives $500 CAD! Submissions are due July 1st, 2025. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Check out Daniel Hannah's blog post about his new article on Henry James' In the Cage (1897) and its reflections upon air, contagions, and illness in Victorian Review 50.1. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558 Post: victorianreview.org?p=2205 Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Congratulations, @saruzzza.bsky.social!!

VR 50.1 just dropped! Check out our forum on Victorian studies and climate change, guest-edited by Barbara Leckie. +The Secret Garden! In the Cage! The French Revolution! Mary Barton! Robert Elsmere! Happy reading. muse.jhu.edu/journal/508

not sure it will add that much to my book, but I've spent two weeks trying to compile every mention I can find of shops in Covent Garden in the 1790s in newspaper ads and trade directories.

MVSA: engrossing talk by Kristen Renzi based on her work in the Foundling Hospital archives, now (partially) online at archives.coram.org.uk

Here's the latest edition of Open Access 19th-century Periodicals, with a number of new listings, ranging from the Journal of the Institute of Bankers to the Asiatic Quarterly Review to Wide World Magazine. Suggestions very welcome. www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe... #C19 #19th-c

Call for submissions to the Gaskell Journal for the 2026 Joan Leach Graduate Student Essay Prize. See below for details, or visit the Gaskell Journal website: www.gaskelljournal.co.uk.

Call for submissions to the Gaskell Journal for the 2026 Joan Leach Graduate Student Essay Prize. See below for details, or visit the Gaskell Journal website: www.gaskelljournal.co.uk.

Hey! You need a break. I can tell! Consider joining the super kind, fun, and interesting folks at VISWAUS! Meet me in St. Louis for VISAWUS 2025: Gateways October 3-5, 2025 Saint Louis University Keynote Speaker: Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State University Proposal deadline extended to March 31!

Are you interested in reviewing for @bavs-uk.bsky.social? 📖 We have just updated our list of recent releases we're looking to review, featuring these amazing books and more! See the website below for details and email us if you're interested 📧 bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

Eagle-eyed @rs4vp.bsky.social members may have seen in the newsletter that I'm back at the University of Leeds to work on the fantastic Curran Index! I'll be delving into the scrapbooks of feminist philosopher and journalist Frances Power Cobbe to give attributions for her work as a jobbing writer!

This is a really useful resource especially for students doing dissertations

Andrea gives the three canonical options: A: CAUSE-a-bon B: ca-SOW-bahn C: ca-SAW-bun This platform doesn't do polls, but please vote below so we can get this settled definitively ASAP. I have a whole chapter on *Middlemarch* that I've already written, so I need to learn soon?? 😂😱

New issue alert! 66.3 features essays originally presented at the 2023 NAVSA conference, held in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference’s theme, “Revision, Return, Reform,” is reflected in this issue’s three essay clusters: Stretch*, Textures of Empire, and Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies.

In this post and the next two, we will introduce the contributors to 66.3! 66.3’s first essay cluster, “Stretch*,” is organized and introduced by Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social, and features essays written by Hosanna Krienke, Ryan Carroll @ryancarroll.bsky.social, and M.A. Miller.

66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.

66.3’s final essay cluster, “Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies,” is organized and introduced by Carolyn Lesjak, and features essays written by Colton Valentine @, Sourav Chatterjee, and Cherrie Kwok @cherriekwok.bsky.social.

New #OpenAccess book from @uclpress.bsky.social: Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science, Lost Creatures and Deep Time, edited by @chrismanias.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/22eve8xn #HPS #histsci #books

Arsenical books are one of the few instances where it is entirely appropriate for readers to be issued with gloves for handling!

Awesome 👏

DEADLINE EXTENSION: The deadline to submit proposals to present at VSAWC's May conference has been extended to January 15!

Extended deadline in call for papers.

DEADLINE EXTENSION: The deadline to submit proposals to present at VSAWC's May conference has been extended to January 15!

Reminder that today is the last day to submit a paper proposal for EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY! See vsawc.org/events/ for details.

Reminder that today is the last day to submit a paper proposal for EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY! See vsawc.org/events/ for details.