share.google/GOSvWZjUEtzs... After a bit of ‘tutting’ at the start of this, I confess to being utterly charmed by the end. Loved Ella Bruccoleri’s performance and, thanks to Ruth Jones, we see Mrs Bennet as more of a coercive, toxic mother than the usual frivolous, harmless caricature.

Applications for the 206/27 round of the C19 Matters Fellowship @ljmuofficial.bsky.social are now open! Details and benefits below and here: victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/27/n.... Deadline Monday 11 May 2026; please share widely!

@bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @drhorrocks.bsky.social

QAQV Chats #4 💬

Neo-historical Biofiction: Counterfictional Lives

19 March 2026 | 19:00–20:30 CET | Zoom

Barbara Braid (Univ. of Szczecin) in conversation with Anna Gutowska (Jan Kochanowski Univ.), followed by Q&A moderated by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko.

Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/qaqvchats/

@bavs-uk.bsky.social

Would you like to come and study for a PhD at the University of Surrey? We invite PhD proposals in literature, music and media, and applied theatre. Interdisciplinary proposals welcome as are those from other fields, including film, digital media, cultural studies, and creative writing.

The Dickens Society is thrilled to announce: 'Novel Beginnings: The Charles Dickens Birthday Virtual Conference' on 7th February 2026.

The conference is free. Please join us and register for the event using this link to receive a Zoom link for the event: www.eventbrite.com/e/novel-begi...

Went to this event last night; beautiful and moving throughout. Thank you! #BeingHuman2025

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... How exciting!

Very sad to hear about the death of Prof. Simon James - an excellent scholar and a kind human being. My thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues.

Interesting ideas here, and astute about current problems in UKHE.

Important reflections for our times, please do read and share ⬇️⬇️

Vernon Lee: Text, Applications, and Practice - the first North American Vernon Lee conference is waiting for your abstracts! Jan 3 2025 is your deadline. Conference is at Colorado College, 29 June - 2 July 2025 💜

Great to see this from the @englishassociation.bsky.social.

background: a typewriter and a mug in front of a mock crime board text: (Untrue) True Crime: Historicising, Contextualising, Rewriting 8 July 2025 | online Zoom

same background: a typewriter and a mug in front of a mock crime board text: Whether stemming from interest in violence and stories or the need to understand criminal behaviour, narrating true crime has become an industry in and of itself. We would like to create a platform to discuss various ways of historicising, contextualising, and rewriting true crime across the media and further understanding regarding the ways in which true crime narratives are deployed.

same background: a typewriter and a mug in front of a mock crime board text: Topics may include but are not limited to: covering true crime in the media the ethics of representing true crime adapting and reinterpreting true crime (de)mythologising perpetrators the criminal-detective dynamic voicing the victims and their families the role of law enforcement shifting formats of narrating true crime marketing and reception

same background: a typewriter and a mug in front of a mock crime board text: Please submit a 250-word proposal and a 50-100-word bionote by 16 May 2025 using the form linnked in the post. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 6 June 2025. Lizzie Seal (University of Sussex) and Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko (University of Warsaw)

If you are interested in historicising, contextualising, or rewriting #truecrime, join @lizzieseal.bsky.social and me to reflect on ways in which true crime narratives are deployed!
The CFP is live and the proposals can be submitted via this form: forms.gle/U1hHhpWQh9u8...
The deadline is 16 May!

CFP: British Association for Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference (Proposal Deadline: 3/17/25) bit.ly/3X9mG4r

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July.

Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC

Editorial: ‘The government should not stand aloof as a crisis unfolds in our universities. A new settlement is needed’. Good to see a measured, informed, and supportive media response to the crisis in HE.

Library full of books, old building, dark wood shelves, beautiful diffused light

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply.

Please share :)

www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

We the undersigned … plse read and share ⬇️

Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth–Century Novel Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth–Century Novel

And a new open access book on Mudie's and the novel to go with it!

More Pride, Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250👇
sites.google.com/view/morepri...

So honoured to now be a Fellow of the @englishassociation.bsky.social!

Seminar series: Nineteenth Century Magazines and Print Culture’ This semester, we are continuing with our series of talks on the theme of ‘Nineteenth Century Magazines and Print Culture’. These talks will take place on MS TEAMS and a calendar invite will be sen…

Delighted to be presenting a research paper as part of Anglia Ruskin’s Nineteenth-Century Magazines and Print Culture series. Please do come along if you can and check out the schedule here: nineteenthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/s...

The Best Books I Read This Year | 2024 YouTube video by SherdsTube

New #SherdsTube out now on YouTube: youtu.be/wOMcD5IQUZo

Having now seen #Nosferatu, I’m sorry to say that I was disappointed. I’ve loved Eggers’ work to date, and the cinematography here was equally impressive, but it’s a one-note movie - everything is overwrought, including Orlok’s distracting accent!

@danielledove.bsky.social One for you, I think! 😂

Thanks to @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social and all on the Assemblage project for a great two days of fascinating papers and productive discussion!

Wonderful afternoon at the @beinghumanfest.bsky.social events at Leith Hill Place in Surrey. Glorious autumn colour coupled with amazing poetry and music.

Thanks, Laura!

Have just joined Bluesky. Hoping to rediscover Victorianist communities and colleagues who have disappeared from my X feed!