My article revealing Marie Corelli’s hidden decade of pseudonymous periodical publications is now available to read in this fantastic FREE issue of Victorian Periodicals Review! @vpreditors.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @lboroenglish.bsky.social

You can now get hold of my book Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry in paperback, for a mere £34.39 in the Routledge sale (isn't that about the price of a flat white in London these days?)

Our next speaker in the Science and Imagination panel at #VPFAExtremes is Bridget Morgan, with her paper 'The Rejuvenated Spinster: An Alternative Narrative of Ageing in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future (1918)'

We had a fantastic afternoon at graduation today! Huge congratulations to our excellent graduates, and to our prize winners!

A few more snaps from the prize ceremony 👏🥂🥳🍾🎉

On our Brontës and Relationships panel, we have Kiera Clark discussing the extreme consequences of restricting female autonomy, focussing on Bertha Mason. Various forms of the gothic are central to this analysis #VPFAExtremes

After talking dinosaurs and nineteenth-century literature at the @vpfa.bsky.social annual conference #VPFAExtremes, we're on to Birmingham Library's nineteenth-century Shakespeare Library, which was surgically inserted into the modern building. Also a summer view from the rooftop garden.

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

Our third paper in the Braddon panel is also on 'Lady Audley's Secret'. Anna-Maria Grill: "The Mad-Doctress and her Patients: Negotiating Female Medical Agency in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 'Lady Audley’s Secret'". #VPFAExtremes

The second paper in the Braddon panel is on one of my favourite novels of the Victorian Era: 'Lady Audley's Secret'. Marta Shevchenko's paper is delivered online from Kharkiv, Ukraine is called "Vanishing Women: Anorexic Metaphors and Psychological Extremes in 'Lady Audley’s Secret'". #VPFAExtremes

I had the best time presenting this paper! It was such a great panel to be on - by a *wild* coincidence, we had two separate papers, featuring two separate books that both just so happened to have a character with the last name of Tempest, and someone accidentally selling their soul... #VPFAExtremes

The Sappho panel today was excellent. #VPFAExtremes

I've finally joined Blue-sky on the train, on my way to #vpfaextremes. It's been a while since I followed a # but I'm looking forward to it! Obviously finishing my paper on the train.

"Ouida" has been selected as the runner-up to the VPFA Second Book Prize 2025! Thank you very much to the lovely scholars who supported this book and for these wonderful, generous reviews! ✨

Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it. @vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social doi.org/10.46911/TWO...

Anyway, an hour or so investigating this very topic, and many other more interesting ones regarding Elizabeth Taylor and Angel, is coming this weekend/next week on Backlisted. We are all really excited about sharing it with you. Subscribe! SUBSCRIBE! @backlisted.bsky.social

@drsarahparker.bsky.social’s edited volume Michael Field in Context is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in September!

Join us for BAVS Talks 2025 celebrating the 25th anniversary of BAVS UK; Friday 27 June, 2-5:30pm at the University of Leicester. Featuring talks from Victorianists + Postgrad Poster Session & Networking Reception - Register now: » bavs.ac.uk/event/bavs-t...

This Friday, @sadiseshiah.bsky.social is joining an expert panel discussion after the final performance of Jon Crewe’s play about women and ageism, ‘Go Gently’, which is playing at The Drayton Arms Theatre. If you’re in or near London, it’s not quite sold out yet: www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk

Theatre Royal, Peter St, Manchester dressed up for the Diamond Jubliee of Queen Victoria in 1897. The production on stage was The Sorrows of Satan an 1895 Faustian novel by Marie Corelli. #Manchester #History #HistoryMatters

We held our ‘Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between’ symposium this afternoon. Organised by @jadefrench.bsky.social and @drsarahparker.bsky.social, other speakers were @amigonidavid.bsky.social, Fatima Borrmann, @helenkingstone.bsky.social, & Helen Small. A wonderful event! 👏👏👏

Born today in 1854, author, composer, musician, and actress (!) Marie Corelli. I’ve overturned a hundred years of biography to prove she was born as Caroline Cody - a year earlier than previously believed. You can read my research for free here:

#DidYouKnow that we run four lively research groups within English: @culturalcurrents.bsky.social, the Contemporary, @healthhumslboro.bsky.social, and Editing and Textual Scholarship. All hold research events, including regular seminars with guest speakers, which are usually hybrid and open to all.

There's still time to register for our fabulous hybrid symposium on Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias... @lboroenglish.bsky.social @jadefrench.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social

You can now register for the Amy Lowell and Her Imagist Networks Symposium, taking place in London on Fri 23 May: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/amy-lowell... Please share and promote to your modernist networks!

This set of articles may be of particular interest to the @rs4vp.bsky.social crowd - new scholarship on periodical poetry, from the Boston Investigator to Dark Blue, Secular Chronicle to The Savoy.

Archive cushions just look so comfy sometimes... Tempting...Zzzz #research #HistoricalResearch #skystorians

Just noticed we’re on 475 followers. It’s a big axe, but can we get to 500 followers by the end of the month?

This promises to be a super hybrid event! Organised by the amazing @drsarahparker.bsky.social and @jadefrench.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social

Our first bit of business? Registration for #RSVP2025 is now live! You can register and find out more details about travel, accommodations, and a bird's eye view of the program, and more at our conference website! Share your enthusiasm via #VoicesandVisions conference.rs4vp.org

👋Hello Bluesky! We are now officially "live" and will regularly post announcements, tidbits, and other exciting news that will interest our members and friends across the sky! Follow us, tag us, invite your friends to join us and we will endeavor to do the same!

Delighted that @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social has been able to contribute to this fabulous new exhibition celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary, thanks to support from the AHRC: janeaustens.house/display/aust...

Super excited for this excellent volume on #TerryPratchett, who deserves so, so much more scholarly attention. Incredibly happy to have a chapter on urbanity, #neoVictorian vibes, & Truth and Justice (and a Hard-Boiled Egg) in here.

Tried to avoid too much zaniness in my book's index.

Welcome to week one! Our first years will be taking some of the following: Intro to Creative Writing, Slavery to Black Lives Matter: African American Culture 1840 to Now, Analysing Poetry, Theory Matters: Critiquing Inequalities, How to do things with digital texts, and Introduction to Film.

Delighted to be invited to deliver a keynote at the wonderful Irish Society For Theatre Research conference in Dún Laoghaire next June!😀 istr.ie/ends-of-empi...

Hello Bluesky! We are the English Department at Loughborough University. You can find out more about us at this link: www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/eng.... Below is a photo taken on a glorious day in May 2024 of some our faculty and finalists.

I was given the slightest encouragement, which is all I need, to tell you the story of how steel pens were made during the 19th-century. Settle down with a nice beverage because this takes a bit. I'll include the slides I made for giving this as a talk at my local pen show a few years ago. 🧵

Prof Emerita Elaine Hobby has been campaigning to get a statue of Aphra Behn installed on the streets of Canterbury (where Behn's from). This photo shows the statue at the foundry, but Behn is now nearly in place outside the city’s Beaney Museum and will be unveiled at 11.30 on Tues 25 Feb.

Calling all Orlandos! You can now pre-order Interrogating Lesbian Modernism: Histories, Forms, Genres (EUP) in paperback edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-interro...

@jenniferacooke.bsky.social @linenyhagen.bsky.social gave a talk about their Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities to the Feminist Studies Association on 27 Jan. The photo is from the Loughborough launch. www.routledge.com/Intersection...

The collection will follow hot on the heels of a Corelli special issue of Victoriographies (Autumn 2025), which Jo and Eleanor are also co-editing. The issue showcases methodologies which will have broad appeal to Victorianists.

Following the centenary conf they hosted last year, @lboroenglish.bsky.social doctoral researcher @coppertapestry.bsky.social & Eleanor Dobson @unibirmingham.bsky.social are editing Marie Corelli in Context:Cultural Currency, Popular Fiction & the Literary Marketplace (@edinburghup.bsky.social 2026)

To ring in the new semester, check out Abigail Droge’s article, “Reading George Eliot with Victorian College Students” from Issue 63.2. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to not only read about past students but imagine future generations of scholars to come! muse.jhu.edu/article/801003

Our Leverhulme ECR Fellow @jadefrench.bsky.social's first monograph - Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D. (OUP, 2025) - is due to be published on 6 Feb. academic.oup.com/book/59319/c...

…Now on BSKY… @michaelstipe.bsky.social

Academia can be a bit of a rollercoaster. Had some disappointing news earlier in the week but really pleased to see this in the world: www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...

Just released: my podcast with BBC History Extra on - yup, you guessed it - Charles Dickens, just in time for his birthday next week. Available to members at www.historyextra.com/membership/c... also on spotify at open.spotify.com/episode/01dT...