Holding the book "Transforming Girls" in front of a pink cherry tree in bloom

We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature

#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA

#AAS2026 Discover how Victorian Britain’s imperial past still shapes global culture today.

EMPIRE OF CULTURE traces how Britain, the US, Japan, & Singapore reinterpret the legacy of empire.

#ReadUP tinyurl.com/rxaxna42

#AsianStudies #VictorianStudies #GlobalCulture

Current read.

@historyextra.bsky.social

#victorianstudies #victoriantimes

On left, black-and-white illustration of a woman in profile reading a book. On right, text says: Interested in reviewing for VPR? Visit rs4vp.org/vpr to message our new Book Reviews Editor, Lauren Ottaviani.

We’re delighted to announce that @laurenottaviani.bsky.social (KU Leuven) has joined VPR's staff as Associate Editor. Lauren will oversee book reviews, and she welcomes suggestions for special features. Visit rs4vp.org/vpr/ to message the editors or volunteer to review a book. #VictorianStudies

Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.
Check out Stefanie John’s article on the red squirrels of Morris & Co.!

link in bio and here: jvc.oup.com/2021/06/03/t...
#victorianstudies #victorian #victorianjournal

📚✨ New publication alert!
Congratulations to Victoria Puchal Terol on her new book
“Náufragas, esposas, viudas y prostitutas en la escena victoriana”!
More info: puv.uv.es/naufragas-es...
#NewPublication #VictorianStudies

cfp | call for papers

#CFP: "Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture"
Victorian Popular Fictions Journal (VPFJ)

Deadline: May 10, 2026

Info: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...

#envhum #envhist #culturalstudies #culturalhist #victorianstudies #ecocriticism #ecopoetics

More reference books for the forthcoming MA Victorian Gothic (Distance Learning) @uophistory.bsky.social

#gothicstudies #dracula #victorianstudies #victoriangothic

Call for Papers: 9th DACH Victorianists Workshop - 'Terraqueous' Victorians dach victorianists network

New #CallForPapers #CfP by the DACH Victorianists for their 9th workshop - "Terraqueous' Victorians: Global Geographies as Metaphor, Materiality, and Methodology"

when? 26 June, 2026
abstract deadline: 1 March, 2026

#VictorianStudies

details: dachvictorianists.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...

#VictorianStudies people! It's outside of my area, has anyone written about marrying your dead wife's sister or dead husband's brother? It was illegal, but was it accepted socially?

First book of the year and latest addition to my Victorian Studies library.

#victorian #victorianstudies

Holding the book "The New Woman & Technologies of Speed in Fin-de-Siècle Literature" by Eva Chen in front of several bicycles parked in bike stands, the closest one sporting a colourful handmade, knitted sleeve in several colours

Happy #NewYear 2026!
We are entering the new year at high speed, with this new study by Eva Chen on the #NewWoman & technologies of speed (as cyclist & typist) in #FindeSiècle #EnglishLiterature 🚴‍♀️💨💨💨

#VictorianLiterature #HappyNewYear #LiteraryStudies #LateVictorianism #VictorianStudies

Queen Victoria's family gathered around a decorated Christmas tree inside an ornate oval frame with floral and cherub motifs.

Before Christmas trees were common in America, newspapers helped popularize them—thanks in part to Queen Victoria. 🎄

Our latest blog explores Victorian holiday feasting through historical newspapers and cookbooks in Readex collections: https://ow.ly/1S4y50XNl4M

#PrimarySources #VictorianStudies

Dickensian London in A Muppet Christmas Carol - Yale University Press London In this extract from Dickensland, Lee Jackson explains how the filmmakers recreate a fictionalised version of Dickensian London to connect with and delight their contemporary audiences.

Lee Jackson (@victorianlondon.bsky.social) explores how the filmmakers of A Muppet Christmas Carol recreate a fictionalised version of Dickensian London to connect with and delight their contemporary audiences.

yalebooks.co.uk/dickensian-l...

#victorianstudies #history

More books, in preparation for the MA Victorian Gothic (Online)...

I cannot ****** wait!!!

#victoriangothic #victorianstudies

The Domestic Hearth: Writings by Dickens, Beeton, Stevenson, and Hodgson Burnett – Journal of Victorian Culture Online The blog and online platform of the Journal of Victorian Culture

Take a look at Judith Hendra’s article on the domestic hearth in Victorian culture! Hendra draws from Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett to illuminate the hearth’s many roles. Link in bio or here: jvc.oup.com/2024/03/01/t...

#victorianstudies #journalofvictorianculture

Can the concert hall be as erotic as the bedroom? SOUNDING BODIES uncovers how nineteenth-century discoveries in acoustical science reshaped Victorian understandings of gender, sexuality, & intimacy.

#AMS2025 #ReadUP at booth 106 or tinyurl.com/3d25zwjz

#Musicology #VictorianStudies #SoundStudies

Tonight is #Halloween ! This #LiteraryStudies book by Jen Cadwallader calls upon the spirits among the pages of #ghoststories & other #VictorianLiterature - she traces the 19th c's unique interplay of spirituality, Christianity, science and #VictorianCulture

#VictorianStudies

Cover of Victorian Studies journal, with lithograph of fairies!

I'm really proud of this: the latest issue of #VictorianStudies has an article of mine in it!
It's on #ageing and #generations, & the insightful ways that Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant approaches these issues, with takeaways for us now.
doi.org/10.2979/vic....

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Holding the book "Re-Reading the Age of Innovation" in front of an ornate gravestone, depicting a funeral wreath

"Re-Reading the Age of Innovation", edited by Louisa Kane, collects 14 essays on the subject of newness: new inventions, new forms in #VictorianLiterature & #Modernism - 1830–1950
Authors discussed incl #Dickens #Conrad #Hardy #Woolf #CharlotteMew #ElíasMar & #WalterFrancesWhite

#VictorianStudies

Holding the book "Writing the Brain: Material Minds and Literature, 1800-1880" next to an old stone pillar with the depiction of an urn on it

"Writing the Brain" by Stefan Schöberlein looks at how C19 literature in Britain & the US incorporated discourses from the emerging neuroscience. Authors discussed incl #GeorgeCombe #CharlesDickens #EmilyDickinson #PlinyEarle #BenjaminRush & #AlfredTennyson

#VictorianStudies #MedicalHumanities

Holding the book "Victorian Automata" in front of an ornate gravestone

"Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century", edited by Suzy Anger & Thomas Vranken explores the concept of the automaton (a forerunner to robots or artificial intelligence), both mechanical & human, in #VictorianCulture & #VictorianLiterature in 15 essays

#VictorianStudies

Holding the book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" in front of an ornate gravestone

4 new #VictorianStudies arrivals!
Asha Hornsby's book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" analyses the British #antivivisection movement and its discourses around #animalprotection in #VictorianLiterature & science & the press

#LiteraryStudies #VictorianScience #academicsky

Trying to find the people from the before times….
#medtwitter #histmed #publichealth #epi #microbiology #healthcoms #healthhum #medhum #victorianstudies

Waving my profile flag from Twitter to find the friends

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

The Curran Fellowship covering research and travel expenses for research on British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century may be of interest to #DH and #VictorianStudies folks on here ☺️
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

Only ten days left to submit your proposals for the Re-Exhibiting the Museum conference!

rtmconference.wixsite.com/info

#VictorianMuseums #VictorianStudies #Display #Collecting #Exhibitions #CallForPapers #19thCMuseums

New #CallforPapers for an online workshop as part of the DACH Victorianists Workshop Series

#VictorianStudies #NeoVictorian #MedicalHumanities

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

There's still time to register for the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference on 23-25 July at the University of Oxford.

See the full programme and register on our website: www.english.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025

#BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC

@bavs-uk.bsky.social

🚨 NAVSA 2025 registration is now open! 🚨
IMPORTANT INFO:
Prices go up $50 on Sept 15!
Registration closes Oct 15!
If you have funding, please consider donating to support accessibility! #NAVSA2025 #VictorianStudies

navsa.georgetown.edu/hotel-bookin...

The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize – RSVP The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a…

📣 Last call! VanArsdel Prize submissions are due TOMORROW, June 15! Send your submissions directly to VPR's editor @kmalonephd.bsky.social. rs4vp.org/awards/vanar...
#VanArsdelPrize #RSVPprizes #VictorianStudies