Do you work on Ann Radcliffe? Do you work on women writers and producers of the Gothic and horror? Do you work on topics related to people of marginalised genders in the Gothic? Join us! Submit an abstract for our upcoming online conference! romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

'I want that fable on my desk, AESOP!'

CfP for VPFA's 18th Annual Conference is now live and the topic is 'Victorians and their Publics'. To read the CfP and full submission guidelines online, please head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-....

Dracula's Bookshelves #library #gothic #literature

Merci à toi, Stefanie, for your fantastic paper! I was delighted to meet you

Merci beaucoup for hosting this fantastic event, Emilie!

What a delight it was to organise the Vernon Lee and the European Cultural Heritage conference in Paris these last two days! So many amazing people and wonderful encounters... such fantastic talks! It was an honour to organise this conference with Christophe Gelly and to meet so many great scholars.

What's this!? An online conference!? Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'? With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers! Check it out!! buytickets.at/romancingthe...

Now we have Betty Hagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes

First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous in Arthur Machen’s fiction through the theories of German philosopher and theologian Rudolph Otto #VPFAExtremes

Had such a fab time at #VPFAExtremes (as usual) and met so many lovely people (also as usual). Saw this cool window, too (less usual).

read the short story here and let us know if you have any thoughts on it: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-... #VPFAExtremes

Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes

#VPFAExtremes Emilie Laurent describes how castrati were considered immoral and monstrous by the Victorians for transgressing boundaries of sex and gender, and highlights Vernon Lee's criticism of gender nonconforming voices.

Thank you 💜

It was an honour and a pleasure to give this paper today at the wonder #VPFAextremes conference! Many thanks to the lovely audience 💜

Keynote 2 is Richard Fallon: Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction. #VPFAExtremes

And finishing off this panel is @emilieslaurent.bsky.social with her exploration of the monstrous extremes of gender in the figure of the castrato in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ #VPFAExtremes

Ifill very interestingly compares office Gothic to traditional Gothic novels: where the heroine in a traditional Gothic novel can grow through conquering various trials, the office worker does the same through his daily trudge and problem solving. #vpfaextremes

Hypnotism was predominantly undertaken by masculine men upon female subjects. Much fin de siecle fiction explores the dangers of hypnotism and its potential for sexual exploitation #VPFAExtremes

Just chaired an excellent first panel of #VPFAExtremes with fellow #Birkbeck Victorianists @janetteleaf.bsky.social, Jeremy Newton, & Gordon Bates on Hypnotic Gothic Fictions!

'This woman, by her own explanation, can dominate my nervous organism. She can project herseledf into my body and take command of it [...] She is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell' -The parasite #VPFAExtremes

We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes

"What kind of writer you are depends a lot on who's holding the pen, who 'places you where'" in the catalogue - Carolyn Oulton on how for example Dickens is grouped with different authors/in different genres depending on when and where his works were read. #VPFAExtremes

I had the immense honour of carrying out a week-long research stay at the British Institute of Florence last week and to consult the Vernon Lee Archive, which contains 400 volumes from Vernon Lee’s personal library, annotated in her own hand. What a treasure trove of discoveries!

Congratulations! Immediately adding it to my TBR pile--it sounds like a compelling read!

Such an exciting programme!

Registration for the upcoming "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage" conference in Paris (Sept 18-19) is now open! You can register here: dr01.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/... #vernonlee #victorian #conference

Our official journal for @incsa.bsky.social is open for submissions. As the editor responsible for themed issues I'm seeking innovative proposals connected to any aspect of the 19thC. If interested, get in touch with me directly. Journal info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

Registration for the upcoming "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage" conference in Paris (Sept 18-19) is now open! #vernonlee #victorian #conference dr01.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/...

So happy and proud to publish my very first article! It is called "Sympathy for the Devil: Failed Catharsis and Universal Guilt in Agatha Christie’s Curtain", in Clues, and it truly is a labor of love. Finally a dream has come true! elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/04/clue...

Doctorant.e.s en littérature, plus que quelques jours pour nous envoyer vos propositions ! 👍

Avis aux doctorants et jeunes chercheurs en littérature ! Journée d'études "Voyages et Transformations" ! 📍 Où ? Clermont-Ferrand 📅 Quand ? Le 3 octobre 2025 🗓️ Envoyez-nous vos propositions avant le 29 mai 2025 ! Nous avons hâte de lire vos propositions ! www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Thank you so much for inviting me! I was very honoured, and delighted to discuss Vernon Lee, culture and the Gothic with you all!

Eagerly waiting to meet you all! Thank you so much for inviting me to speak about Vernon Lee tomorrow

Edgar Allan Poe by Charles Addams

Major new publication for the #TravelWriting Studies folk - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing, edited by the dream-team of @afquaireau.bsky.social, Emanuelle Peraldo and Samia Ounoughi. Lots of excellent stuff in here and some interesting perspectives on contemporary work.

#littérature #doctorat #doctorants #PhD

Avis aux doctorants et jeunes chercheurs en littérature ! Journée d'études "Voyages et Transformations" ! 📍 Où ? Clermont-Ferrand 📅 Quand ? Le 3 octobre 2025 🗓️ Envoyez-nous vos propositions avant le 29 mai 2025 ! Nous avons hâte de lire vos propositions ! www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....

🚨Extended deadline for this exciting Vernon Lee conference in Paris! New deadline for submission is March 21. We can't wait to read your abstracts! #vernonlee #cfp #19thcentury #literature #victorianliterature

Fantastic! Thank you so much for the info!

The lecture won't be livestreamed, but it will be recorded and uploaded to our website!

Delighted to announce that the call for papers for our ‘Authors as Characters in Fiction, Film and Graphic Narratives’ conference is now open! 📆 Deadline: 1st September 2025 📍Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France) More details below 👇🏻

So exciting! Will it be possible to attend online, by any chance?

Tickets for our second ✨ FREE ✨ public lecture are now live! Join Dr. Deborah Russell on 16th May 6pm-8pm for 'Ann Radcliffe and Women's Gothic Writing'. Get your tickets below and please share widely! www.eventbrite.com/e/ann-radcli...

Extended deadline for this exciting Vernon Lee conference in Paris! New deadline for submission is March 20. We can't wait to read your abstracts! #vernonlee #cfp #19thcentury #literature #victorianliterature

Extended deadline for this exciting Vernon Lee conference in Paris! New deadline for submission is March 20. We can't wait to read your abstracts! #vernonlee #cfp #19thcentury #literature #victorianliterature

Don't forget to send in your abstracts for this exciting Vernon Lee conference! #vernonlee #cfp #19thcentury #literature #victorianliterature