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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

All fiction titles from the English Catalogue, Volume 4 have now been added! That means 1862–1889 are complete. Next up: the 1890s... • 27,471 title entries • 6,770 author entries (most with bios) Big thank you to my students from last semester who assisted me to this milestone.

A graph of the number of titles published per year, 1837 to 1901, showing an increasingly steep increase up to the 1890s

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Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Beth Rodgers www.aber.ac.uk/en/english/s... operating without lunch, after a gull stole her sandwich and bag of crisps. Looking at Irish writer LT Meade (1844-1914), who -- says Beth -- invented "creative writing" #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion

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Staff Profiles : Department of English & Creative Writing , Aberystwyth University

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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And just like that…it’s time. #RSVP2026

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Ashtha Saklani of the University of Delhi discusses physical mobility, textual mobility, and circulatory mobility regarding John Lang's colonial commentary in Household Words. #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Settling in for the first panel of @rs4vp.org #MovementsAndMigrations in fabulous Dublin! Looking forward to the range of ECR papers in 1D, Tracking Change in Print: Food, News, and Politics.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Packed house for the first #RSVP2026 #printinmotion panel! Sitting in the "Pedagogy in Circulation" completely full room, looking fwd to Jordi Alonso, Kristen Whittle, Beth Rodgers (esp on *Girls Own* magazine

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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My students are putting on a book exhibition using books from my colllection!

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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

New end of the year update to At the Circulating Library: just passed 26,000 titles (third of the way through English Catalogue volume 4), plus hundreds of new author biographies. Enjoy!

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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Just entered the 26,001st novel into the ATCL database! Update coming soon…

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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The #2025MVSA is off to a great start this morning with the opening plenary panel!

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The great historian of the early 19th-c. comic press, Brian Maidment, died last week. He was as deeply appreciated for his personal kindness as for his brilliant work, and I treasured his friendship. @pritijoshi.bsky.social has written a lovely tribute: rs4vp.org/in-memoriam-... #C19

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In Memoriam: Remembering Brian Maidment – RSVP

A tribute from RSVP president Priti Joshi to past president and long-time member, Brian Maidment, who passed away January 28, 2025.

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 11/01/2025

Not at MLA because dialysis stops me travelling (urgh) but chuffed that @kfitz.info sent me this picture from the event :)

A copy of my book, Eve, Martin Paul, The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (Oxford University Press, 2022). It has a pink circle on the front with the cover text in it.

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Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

That… is not a very good title.

The Inheritance of Evil, or the Consequences of Marrying a Deceased Wife’s Sister, by Felicia Skene, published in London in 1849

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

For any scholar working on the 19th-c. press, a Curran Fellowship can be a big help. Everybody is eligible, and the application is blessedly straightforward. This year's deadline is next week: Wednesday, January 15. Recommendation letters due Jan 22. rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th-c

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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...

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

My book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, is out now with Oxford University Press! academic.oup.com/book/58989 It’s a book about page fillers, product placement, and strange hybrid fiction. It asks how the page of the magazine became a spur for new, odd genres.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

PLEASE APPLY to Midwest Victorian Studies conference seminars. Three options: Lit History/Genealogies; Plant Humanities; Work-in-Progress, led respectively by Alison Booth, Lindsay Wells, and me. Apps due Jan 5; conference April 3-6 @ Purdue U Ft Wayne. Full CFP & app details (easy process!) below.

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Conference Seminars 2025

MVSA Conference Seminars are small, with eight to ten participants each. Participants exchange work to read ahead of the 2025 conference and meet in a closed, collaborative session to discuss overl…

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Studies in the Novel @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Announcing our winter special issue: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel." 12 short essays engage with truisms in novel studies. Thanks to Sarah Allison & Megan Ward (@sarahdallison.bsky.social, @megaplex.bsky.social) for guest editing & to all the contributors!

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Megan Ward @megaplex.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

6 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 7: Freytag's plot pyramid is the deep structure underlying all narrative. To find out what's NOT true, read @dallasliddle.bsky.social in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social

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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

New update to ATCL! We are now up to: • 25,221 titles (+1,221 for the year) • 5,970 authors (+391 for the year) • 250+ new author bios • new setting and genre tags • new downloadable datasets This year, we finished English Catalogue v3 (1872-80) and began v4 (1881-89) #victorianstudies

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Megan Ward @megaplex.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

8 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 5: The Victorian novel is an English novel. To find out what's NOT true, read Sierra Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

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Megan Ward @megaplex.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

9 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 4: The bound commercial novel is a Victorian phenomenon. To find out what's NOT true, read Lindsey Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

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Megan Ward @megaplex.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

11 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day Two: The typical Victorian novel was published serially. To find out what's not true, read @3volumenovel.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

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Sarah Allison @sarahdallison.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Attn, attn: The very special issue of Studies in the Novel Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel is OUT! so lovely to co-edit w @megaplex.bsky.social and big thanks to @noragilbert.bsky.social & Tim Boswell @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

title page Studies in the Novel, Special Issue, Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel, Guest Editors Sarah Allison & Megan Ward

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Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The beautiful Pictorial Times is this week's #MastheadMonday. Founded in 1843 by Henry Vizetelly & Andrew Spottiswoode, in reaction to the success of the ILN, in 1848 it merged with the Lady's Newspaper. Digitised by the BL & free-to-view here: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/picto...

Very elaborate masthead for the Pictorial Times. It is from issue one, Saturday, March 18th 1843.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Curran Fellowships are now open for applications (due Jan 15, letters Jan 22), and they can be a big help to anyone researching any aspect of the 19th-c. British press. Topics pursued by past winners have ranged far and wide: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... Details here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th

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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Important lessons from old books: "Victorian novels chronicle the terrible grief of losing children. Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable again." theconversation.com/infectious-d...

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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In the 1840s, Albert Smith and Angus B Reach teamed with David Bogue to create a small craze for pocket-sized illustrated comic booklets. An old friend, knowing how much I like them, just gave me some that were bound together. Starting with Reach's "A Natural History of Bores," cuts by HG Hine.

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If you're in New Orleans #MLA25, join us at the RSVP roundtable on "The Challenge of Periodical Studies" with Maria Damkjær, Fionnuala Dillane, Katherine Malone, Jim Mussell, and your truly. Session #350, Friday, Jan 10, 3:30pm

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Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It’s #MastheadMonday. Here’s the Evening Star (1842-43), Feargus O'Connor's attempt to establish a daily London Chartist newspaper after the success of the weekly Northern Star (1837-52). It lasted less than a year. Digitised by the BL & free to view www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/eveni...

Masthead is the Evening Star. The newspaper’s title appears in basic block capitals. The numeration tells us this is issue one, published on Monday 25th July 1842, and it lists the price at two pence.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

F. E. M. Notley's supernatural story “Striking Midnight” was published in The Argosy in December 1881. When the candle flame burns blue, a ghost approaches… #BookWormSat

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We experience Victorian novels now as Culture™️ Objects with heft and capital "L" Literary Significance, but for a large part of the century they were sliced up into small chapter fragments and illustrated in ways likely closer to how we think about comic books today!

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This such an excellent CFP. @navsa2025.bsky.social navsa.georgetown.edu

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Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Today's #MastheadMonday is The Ballot (1831-1832). It was edited by Thomas Wakley, founder of The Lancet (1823-), & advocated Chartist principles including the secret ballot. Digitised by the BL’s Heritage Made Digital: Newspapers and free to view here www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/ballot

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I'm running a workshop for the Victoria Genealogical Society, on strategies for getting from data to story. We'll talk about researching history and about finding the plot. December 7, 10am-noon Pacific time. Registration fee ~$20. Register here: www.victoriags.org/content.aspx...

poster advert for workshop: Filling the silences in family stories: how to move from data to narrative. Most of us know our ancestors only through fading bits of paper: sepia photographs or family recipes, public records, the occasional packet of letters. What does it take to build coherent stories out of such tantalizing fragments of lives? This workshop explores research and writing strategies for constructing family memoirs, drawing on examples from a project set in Miami in the 1920s. Dec 7, 10am-noon Pacific time. Register at https://www.victoriags.org

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Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today's #MastheadMonday features the Railway Bell (1844-1846), one of a number of short-lived newspapers launched at the height of the 'Railway Mania' of the mid-1840s. This was digitised by the British Library and is free to view on the BNA: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/railw...

The masthead for the Railway Bell: Illustrated Advertiser newspaper. It features a large bell with a clock on it and a British flag surrounded by cherubs. It also includes a train, a hot air balloon, an imagined idea of an airplane and a steam ship, and a crowd of people watching all of it. Underneath the masthead it has the issue number 15 in Roman numerals, the date: week ending Saturday, 31st August, and the price: sixpence.

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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Happy that my article "Living on Pea-nuts: Gissing, Fiction, Subsistence" is out in Novel!

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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I agree! Her "Ought We to Visit Her?" and "A Girton Girl" are also pretty good

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Troy J. Bassett @3volumenovel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Do you have questions about the publishing history of the Victorian novel? Just ask! Also: • datasets of titles and authors • statistics and graphs • largest set of Victorian serial novels Available for class or research presentations via zoom

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hi again Victorianist peeps! It's lovely to follow so many folks doing such fascinating work. Also to see lots of old friends. I'm re-upping this because VIC has been so quiet lately, and yet it's a great place for longer-form C19 queries, answers, and discussions than can easily be posted here.

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Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The new deadline for MVSA in April 2025 in Fort Wayne, IN, is Dec. 1! Attendees wishing to workshop a written project can apply for seminar spot by Jan. 5. Grad students doing dissertation research may apply for the Arnstein Prize, deadline Jan. 2. Visit our website for info: midwestvictorian.org

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Conference

“Genealogies” – 2025 April 3-6, 2025, hosted by Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN. “Darwin’s Finches,” or “Galapagos Finches” [colorized]. Journal of Researches into th…

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Fantastic 19c studies conference. You don't have to live in the Midwest to join us! This year's theme is Genealogies. Plus thematic seminars led by Alison Booth and Lindsay Wells, and a works-in-progress one led by me. Please consider applying. (And pass it on!)

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