Special issue: Cultural Histories of Medicine & Health in the Long 19th Century - issue 29:4, Winter 2025. Edited by Larry Duffy and Hannah Scott. Jacob Meister, Vidangeant la ville insalubre: Literary Recycling in Sketches of Montfaucon Kaat Wils, Catholic Engagement with Animal Magnetism, Spiritism and Therapeutic Hypnotism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium Sun-Young Park, Forming the Deaf Citizen in Third Republic France: Health and Education at the Institut d’Asnières Kathryn Bryan, ‘Les Avorteuses de Paris’: Abortion in the fin-de-siècle Press Aine Larkin, Contested Medical Authority in Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu

Happy to see this Special Issue out in the world - Cultural Histories of Medicine & Health in the Long 19th Century - edited by Larry Duffy & myself @uksdn.bsky.social

Great contributions from Jacob Meister, Kaat Wils, Sun-Young Park, Kathryn Bryan & Aine Larkin with several chapters open access!

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 6_6 Susan McCready with Leon Sachs. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Susan McCready talks about her book Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War with Leon Sachs

One of our fabulous executive committee members, Susan McCready, will be talking about her new book, Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War, at the next NCFS Unbound session on 20 March. Register here: southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Still, will probably be a popular policy with many Reform voters, for not entirely rational reasons.

Our wonderful NCFS colleagues are accepting proposals for their 52nd annual conference, which will be on the theme of ‘Voice and Silence’. Deadline for abstracts is 15 March and you can find more info here: cpe.vt.edu/ncfs2026.html

Thanks -- just to be clear in the framing, it's only the second photo that I found, the other was discovered and identified as Duval by someone else, as discussed in the article. Also, I'm not the first to try to validate the first one -- maybe the fourth or fifth!

The first two points of this six-point journey are fully credited to Brennan in this article, and I trust that she, and others cited by me in this piece, will feel that I have referenced their work fairly and respectfully, and according to all of the established norms of academic research.

I was, finally, able to confirm strong links between this second card photograph and Manet's portrait entitled Baudelaire's Mistress (1862), thereby confirming in my own mind both that the two photos are of Duval and, reciprocally, that the Manet portrait is of Duval.

I also found a second photograph, taken on the same day (right, above), which I was able to confirm is of the same woman as the first, despite their apparent dissimilarity.

There, I stumbled on surprising evidence that the link to the Manet painting, noticed by Brennan, may well have been a motivated one, rather than a fashion-related coincidence, and part of a network of allusions to Duval and other hidden figures in this famous painting.

It was published on Wikipedia in April 2025, where I first saw it. In her Substack, Brennan established the link to Duval and also made a key link to Manet's Music in the Tuileries (1862) painting. Fascinated by the photograph, I trawled the Nadar archive to try to confirm its 1862 date.

I'm very proud to have written this article about two newly identified photographs, or card portraits, of Baudelaire's long-term mistress, Jeanne Duval. The first (left, below) was discovered by American writer Summer Brennan, and published on her brilliant Substack A Writer's Notebook in 2021.

I have never considered open citation and transparent, ethical attribution of ideas to be theft, and I don't think many people would.

This is a completely false accusation. I would be glad if you could remove it please. I did encourage you to publish your discovery, and I still do. It's been published by someone else on Wikipedia, so it is not a secret. I credit you openly. I have other insights to add to yours.

I don't understand -- surely a Substack should be referenced if research discoveries are published there? How else can they be referenced? Your discovery has been discussed in an academic publication by at least one other scholar already. It is out there, and you are being credited for it.

I am so sorry, but I promise there is no stealing here: I credit your amazing discovery openly and honestly.

I sent it in September. I absolutely respect your published work, and credit it openly in mine. There is no stealing here, just normal scholarly practice.

No -- all credit is yours. I make other arguments, in my pieces, and come up with other readings, but I very much credit your wonderful discovery. I promise there is no stealing here.

I also wrote several times to your Substack email address and put a comment on one of your recent Substack posts, to ask you how best to contact you. I have credited you openly, and go on to produce my own readings and further discoveries. Please delete your claims that I have stolen your research.

@summerbrennan.bsky.social I have credited you openly and fully in the pieces I am publishing. This is not stealing. It is how scholarship works. I have also tried to contact you many times. Your discovery was published by you and has been credited to you by others, as by me. Nothing untoward.

This beautiful delivery has just arrived, thanks to the SERD (Société des etudes romantiques et dix-neuviémistes). Season-themed, original articles by many well known 19C scholars. Comes free with membership, postage included, and SERD membership costs only £10 if you are a UK SDN member already.

Today is the deadline! It's not too late to get your proposal in for "Health and Happiness" (in a 19th-century French context) in Cardiff...

Only a few days till the deadline! Still time to get your proposal in...

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The second session on Impact will take place on 14th November, 4pm GMT. It will be hosted by Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle).

Sign ups will open in October for this event.

The first session will be on Alt-Ac Careers on 26th September at 4pm BST, delivered by Dr James Illingworth (IFSA) and Dr Stacie Allan (Translator and Consultant)

To sign up for this session, please register with eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.com/e/edn-2025-a...

We are delighted to share the details of our upcoming Early Career training sessions. These are open to postgraduate and early career members of the Society, and will take the form of a roundtable with the panelists, followed by an opportunity for attendees to ask questions.

Health and happiness / La santé et le bonheur (Cardiff University, 2026) Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Déjeuner des canotiers, 1881. TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCESociety of Dix-Neuviémistes Health and happiness / La santé et le bonheur Cardiff University, 8–10 April 2026 …

It’s mid-September and we are fully feeling those “back-to-school” vibes here at SDN. Start the new academic year on a high by sending us your abstract for #SDNCardiff2026, on the theme of health and happiness.

More details here: uksdn.co.uk/health-and-h...

Very excited for this semester's NCFS Unbound events (@ncfsassn.bsky.social). This is a great chance to hear from lots of fantastic 19th-century scholars who’ll be discussing their new books! Find out more here: ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-capt...