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30 Sep 2025
The indispensable Carlyle Letters Online, guided by Brent Kinser, has found a new home at Western Carolina University: carlyleletters.wcu.edu/ This magnificent resource features free access to all the letters of the 50-volume Duke-Edinburgh edition completed in 2023. #Victorian
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17 Jan 2025
Oxford University Press will be awarding up to 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early…
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13 Nov 2024
Actor Timothy West has died, at 90. Victorianists have particular reason to be grateful for his career, from his memorable turns as Bounderby in Hard Times (1977) and Dedlock in Bleak House (2005) to his magnificent audiobooks of Trollope’s novels.
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For those in our orbit who may not yet know the news, our own President Priti Joshi has received this year's @NAVSA President's Award for all of her fine work! 🎉We have written up a little summary here: rs4vp.org/congratulations-to…
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6 Nov 2024
Hathi Trust obligingly lets users create "collections" of its digital texts. Here's one I made entitled "19th-century literary life" that mostly consists of memoirs by authors, contemporary accounts of publishing houses and periodicals, etc. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?… #victorian
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1 Nov 2024
Terrific article about literary women's networking in 19th-c. Brompton. Esp nice to see so much attention to the role of SC and Anna Maria Hall and their important salon at The Rosery. Also the deft use of Camilla Toulmin's fascinating memoir. doi.org/10.1093/jvcult/vcae0…
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28 Oct 2024
This magnificent edition is a gift to readers everywhere, and a model of how to create scrupulously researched open-access scholarly resources. We are all in the debt of Paul Lewis and his co-editors.
27 Oct 2024
For the first time The Collected Letters of Wilkie Collins are available free online to read or download bit.ly/3A6kuCu It contains all his letters which have been identified up to Dec 2023, a total of 3398 letters, all fully footnoted and cross-referenced.
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22 Oct 2024
Has anyone on here had to get permissions from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian before?
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19 Oct 2024
Slightly shy about posting this. But I took on Sir Jonathan Bate in the Scotsman this week. I love some of his critical writing, but he’s wrong when he says that state school students have lost the ability to read long books.
They just need adaptable, realistic curricula.
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18 Oct 2024
Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik is seeking contributors to the RSVP Bibliography 2020-24. This project is a great way to keep up with new scholarship in our field, and all contributors will be acknowledged in the published work. For more info, visit rs4vp.org/call-for-contribut… @RS4VP
ALT Black-and-white illustration of a man reading by fireplace. Text says: Call for contributors, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is seeking reviewers for the 2020-2024 RSVP Bibliography
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13 Oct 2024
Periodical scholars @RS4VP take note!
12 Oct 2024
Wonderful! It's great to be recovering periodical literature, and this will be of special interest to Wildeans!
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12 Oct 2024
We take word balloons for granted in our comics—but when did they start and why? Find out this and more in our interview with Alex Beringer, the author of a new book on the rise of comic strips in America. bit.ly/4gYz3s5
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11 Oct 2024
This attack is a chilling reminder of how fragile are some of the online resources that we depend upon the most.
11 Oct 2024
Latest update (Oct 11, 10:22am PT) ⬇️
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7 Oct 2024
In honor of Nobel Prize Week, please enjoy my favorite tweet of all time
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This meticulously researched study of Dickens’s London by @VictorianLondon is full of fascinating details and entertaining anecdotes about the author and the city that inspired him. A delight for urban historians and fans of Dickens. @YaleBooks
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1 Oct 2024
Congrats, Vic! Eager to read it.
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1 Oct 2024
And speaking of the Newberry Library, here’s a delightful essay about its holdings in 19th-c periodicals (especially the comic ones), penned in 1952 by the late and much missed Richard D. Altick: newberry.org/uploads/files/B…
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1 Oct 2024
Applications are now open for Newberry Library fellowships for 2025-26. Both long-term and short-term fellowships are available. Here are the details: mailchi.mp/df368812be45/newb…
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30 Sep 2024
Announcing our first session back: we are very lucky to have Professor of Historical & Cultural Geography at UCL, Caroline Bressey, leading discussion on representing Black Victorians.
6pm, Tues 8th Oct, Senate House (room tbc). literarylondonrg.wordpress.c…
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