After an excellent first day of conference we're really looking forward to our guest authors on Friday: Karen McCarthy Woolf at 18:00 and Sigrid Nunez at 20:00. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/5793w2ch @littlebrown.bsky.social @viragopress.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @sarahsavitt.bsky.social

Really enjoyed presenting my paper on letters to and from Jane Austen at the @ouliterature.bsky.social online conference today. Thank you to the organisers for such a wonderful event.

Just 2 days until the conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025. With researchers and writers, heritage industry experts and guest authors @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social and Sigrid Nunez. #nationalpoetrylibrary @literatureworks.bsky.social @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social

I am giving a paper this Thursday (6th November) about letters to and from Jane Austen at this online conference. Please see details and register to attend. There are a wide range of fascinating talks all about letters and literature. digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out

We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

A well organised exhibition on Working Women in Austen’s novels at The Arc. Well worth a visit if you are near Winchester.

Enjoyed visiting 8 College Street, Winchester this weekend - the house where Jane Austen died. A great exhibition and moving literary pilgrimage.

Interesting article by Anahita Ahluwalia about the decline of Urdu-language magazines in India, including some great covers. homegrown.co.in/homegrown-cr...

Enjoyed attending the Creating Worlds Place Writing conference yesterday in London. Lots to think about! #OUCreatingWorlds

Come see @alixbeeston.bsky.social talk at Edinburgh Napier on ‘Creativity in Motion: Unfinishing Feminist Film and Literary History’? Wed 30 April, 3.30-5pm (plus drinks after). All welcome; online attendance possible (message me).

RSVP’s annual Colby Prize lecture is going digital! Join us for a special #RSVPDigiEvent on May 9 to hear from W. Hamish Fraser on "Nineteenth-Century Scottish Newspapers: The Importance of the Local." As always, this event is free and open to all! #VoicesandVisions rs4vp.org/colby-prize-...

The submission website for the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association's new peer-review journal *Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research* is now online. We welcome submissions of all kinds. Get in touch if you have an idea for a special issue! www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

CFP: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (Submission Deadline: 5/30/25) bit.ly/4jOSaWt

Don't forget to join us this Friday, April 11 to celebrate @pfyfe.bsky.social's new book, Digital Victorians! Registration is still open, and, as always, absolutely free and open to everyone! See you there! #RSVPDigiEvents

Having a great time at the Walking Women conference in Hamburg. Enjoyed giving my paper today and listening to all the other interesting papers

🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

Getting ready for a nightwalk in Hamburg next week with the wonderful @deeheddon.bsky.social for the 'walking women new perspectives' conference with @sandradinter.bsky.social. Just working on draft layouts for our guide 🌇🚶‍♀️🌌

This is on this week if you’re about in the northwest of England…

Deadline extended: 25th March 2025. Submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.

Really enjoyed attending this OU Teaching and Learning conference in Milton Keynes this week and meeting up with lots of lovely colleagues.

Don't forget to submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. Applications are due this Saturday (15th March)! See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.

I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c... @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social

Thanks for all the chapter proposals. We are wading through them at the moment and will get back to you soon.

Looking forward to speaking at this conference in March and hearing all the other fantastic papers.

Proposal deadline is this week!

Amid the rise of vegetarianism in late 19th-century London, George Gissing used meat-free characters to probe themes of poverty, morality and social contradiction.

We have received some really good proposals so far. Keep them coming!

We have received some really good proposals so far. Keep them coming!

Deadline 15th January!

This is taking place next Wednesday! Register to attend via link.

#CFP Contemporary #WomensWriting Annual Conference! Please share! #TV #film #creativepractice #literary #genre #romance #scifi #crimefiction #gothic #poetry #screenwriting #fanstudies #biography All welcome!

Registration open for our online talks on 11th December. There are 3 great speakers taking about a range of magazines.

📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Please share our Call for Chapters.

This should be a really interesting event with 3 great papers. Register to attend.

This should be a really interesting event with 3 great papers. Register to attend.

Please share our Call for Chapters.