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VPFA are now accepting abstracts for our 19th Annual Conference "Beaches and Borders in Victorian Popular Fiction and Culture". To read the full CfP and submission guidelines, head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-...

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The 2026 VPFA Mary Eliza Root prize is now open! Deadline: 30th September 2026. To see if you are eligible apply, and for more details, please go to: victorianpopularfiction.org/mary-eliza-r...

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Join us for our next Tea Salon to dive into some of the more unique finds we've all come across in the archives. If you are a member, check your previous emails from us to sign up. Not a member? Sign up here: victorianpopularfiction.org/membership-j...

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NEW BLOG POST 📢 Adding to our series of posts about Neo-Victorian horror, Rebecca Hamilton, VJ René, and Megan Nash reflect on the genre’s potential to voice the unspeakable in "The Era of Neo-Victorian Horror Cinema is Here"! Read the full post here: victorianpopularfiction.org/the-era-of-n...

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It might not feel like it but winter is here! Our newest edition Winter 2026 (68.2) is live now on Project MUSE!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 17/09/2026

ICYMI in our last (newsletter), we're joining forces with @vpfa.bsky.social for our first-ever collaborative Online Study Day (5-6 Feb. 2027) on "Fiction in Victorian and Edwardian Social Periodicals." CFP open through 31 Oct. More details here: rs4vp.org/vpfa-online-...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Alfred Tennyson — born #onthisday in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c…

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Congratulations to Stephanie O’Rourke who receives this year’s BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Book Prize 🥳 @bavs-uk.bsky.social

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

BAVS 2026 third keynote brings to us the fantastical thanks to nineteenth-century Aladdin pantomimes @bavs-uk.bsky.social

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

What an amazing rendition of Lincolnshire ballads themed around Tennyson and his Lincolnshire roots #Temnyson2026 @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

@tennysonsociety.bsky.social celebrates the end of #Tennyson2026 with Lincolnshire folk songs in the Victorian Chapel of @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social

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John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Brilliant time at the @tennysonsociety.bsky.social conference today. Great keynote by Claire Pettitt, excellent panel incl the ace @jimchesh.bsky.social, trip to Bardney Manor and then Tennyson's birthplace at Somersby. Sorry I could only make one day of the conf. Thx @ccapancioni.bsky.social !

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This morning #Tennyson 2026 we explore ‘Tennyson Garden: Idylls of the King and the technologization of Nature’ thanks to our keynote speaker, Professor Clare Pettitt 🤩

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Professor Erik Gray’s first Keynote, ‘Tennyson’s Tree’ starts our work #Tennyson2026 with the trees’ potential for embodying collective wisdom in Tennyson’s poems.

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Tennyson 2026 begins tomorrow and, with the bare, I am pondering if the delegates who are already in Lincoln are not meeting us for a pre-conference drink.

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thank you so much #VPFAPublics. What a fantastic conference and so much to look forward to thanks to @vpfa.bsky.social wonderful community!!!

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Our 18th Annual Conference is now over, and some of you may be staving off the post-VPFA conference depression. Not to worry, because we have JUST the cure: Volume 8, issue 1 of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 🤩💫 Read it online here: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...

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Table of Contents ArticlesJulia Kuehn and Diane Eveline van den Brink. The Good, the Bad, and the Popular: The Question of a Popular Canon and Other Methodological ContemplationsLinda K. Hughes. Cr…

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The EA, the Institute of English Studies, & University English are holding an online #emergency summit for all English colleagues to address the proliferation of redundancies, restructurings, other significant challenges to our & cognate disciplines across the sector. 👇🏼 mailchi.mp/1b1ef2d5a8a3...

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Emergency Action On… the Situation for English (10:00 - 12:00, 16 July 2026)

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 08/07/2026

We're looking for a few volunteers to help promote #RSVP2026! If you are: 1) attending the Dublin conference from 23-25 July, 2) have a Bluesky account, and 3) Are willing to post about panels you attend + your conference experience with hashtags #RSVP2026 or #PrintInMotion, we want you!

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David Ibitson @arry-k-arry.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Great time at #VPFAPublics this week. And amazing to hear from @ebutler-way.bsky.social, @ccapancioni.bsky.social , & @helenaesser.bsky.social that papers at next year's conference in Aberystwyth will exclusively take place in bathing machines & on funicular railways, as unlikely as that sounds.

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Bethany Dahlstrom @cryingtheoretic.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Welcome to our new VPFA co-President, Claudia Capancioni! #VPFAPublics

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

After many ideas and productive conversations, the second day of #VPFAPublics ended with a joyful conference dinner. We are starting with a much awaited keynote first thing tomorrow morning: Tara MacDonald’s ‘Public Institutions, Private Care: Sex Work and Care Work in Victorian Popular Fiction’.

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Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Delightful that as we gear up for #VPFAPublics, the new issue of VPFJ is out, featuring yours truly in some great company! Have I been wanting to write this since my MA? Quite possibly. Alcott, sensation, Genette, Goethe ... What more could you want? doi.org/10.46911/YER... @vpfa.bsky.social

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“The omen never fails”: Appropriating Intertexts in Louisa May Alcott’s A Long Fatal Love ChaseEmma Butler-WayDownload PDF hereAbstractNot seeing publication until 130 years after it was written, L…

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Get to know our Web Manager, Emma Butler-Way ✨ @ebutler-way.bsky.social Here are her answers to our 5 questions: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Read her blog post about joining VPFA here: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-emm...

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A moment to get precious advice before finalising the programme for Tennyson 2026 @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

"If you could change one common opinion about the English Literature degree or literature in general, what would it be?" In preparation for our symposium (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/englishcre...), we've asked our student panellists the question above. Here's the first of many insights they'll share!

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We are thrilled to announce the winner of VPFA's First Book Prize 2025: Rebecca Nesvet, James Malcom Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family! Honourable mentions were Riley McGuire, Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability & Nineteenth-Century Literature and Jay Sullivan, Egyptian Gothic: 1884-1920.

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Inspiring annual conference @englishassociation.bsky.social today and an unforgettable chance to celebrate becoming a fellow together with incredible peers on its 120th anniversary.

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Becca @beccalham.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa.bsky.social about my time at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and an amusing snippet from a woman's diary: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-i-s...

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In Which…I Spent a Month at Chawton House!

A reflection by Rebecca HamiltonI spent the entire month of August feeling as though I were a character in a Jane Austen’s novel, in the very place Jane Austen wrote all her major novels: Chawton. …

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Registration for BAVS 2026 is now live! We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool in July: bavs.ac.uk/2026-confere...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/02/2026

🔔 Attention ECRs! Just a reminder that March 1 (next Sunday) is the last day to get your applications in for our annual Mitchell Dissertation Prize! Winners receive $1,000 USD + a 2-yr. membership to RSVP. We look forward to reading your work! rs4vp.org/awards/mitch...

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Mitchell Prize Submission Guidelines – RSVP

Eligible applicants for the Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize will have successfully defended their dissertation within the previous calendar year (i.e., the 2025 prize winner defended in 2024). Proje...

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Time for more questions and comments for our panel at Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social @jennifletcher.bsky.social

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating the romance genre as editors, writers, academics and students!

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It may be raining in Lincoln but the dragons in the Castle are keeping the fire 🔥 going

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Happy Sunday! And Virginia Woolf’s birthday. I love to celebrate the occasion with a few of her essays or entries from her diaries.

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The 31 JANUARY 2026 deadline for submitting proposals for the Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment conference (14-17 July 2026) is fast approaching. To read the details have a look at the details here: tennysonsociety.com/tennyson-202...

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2026 Tennyson Conference: Call for Papers – The Tennyson Society

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

A bicerin at Bar Giorgio 🤩, National Gallery! Thank you Locatelli for a special touch to this Epiphany Tuesday!

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

An important essay for all of us interested in the Victorian archaeology of generations and generational thinking.

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INCSA @incsa.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Research Grant The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. For more details, visit: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Hamilton Prize is Katharine Williams (CUNY Graduate Center) for the essay "Missing Members in Charlotte Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family." Congratulations! The essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal.

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Annie Rutherford @annierutherford.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 06/10/2025

🚨Applications for the Local Innovation Partnerships Fund are now open! This £500 million investment will support partnerships of civic authorities, businesses, and researchers to develop and scale up local innovation, to grow local economies, jobs, and skills. Apply: www.ukri.org/what-we-do/b...

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Area of investment and support: Local Innovation Partnerships Fund

The Local Innovation Partnerships Fund (LIPF) is a new £500 million UKRI-led programme. It empowers innovation leadership through local ‘triple helix’ partnerships between civic institutions, business and universities, delivering impact, at scale.

Budget: Up to £500 million through two funding strands.
Duration: 2026 to 2031
Partners involved: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

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Sign up to attend the VPFA's Third Sex Reading group's October session on Natasha Pulley's The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a neo-Victorian novel To sign up this month, please email vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com with 'FAO: Third Sex No. 43' and ask to be added to the attendees list.

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

@Lemn Sissay’s event at the Lincoln Book Festival 2025 with colleagues and students of @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating National Poetry Day.

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Thanks to Lemn Sissay for leading us into hopeful, bright poems which pour the light in!!!

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Tonight we are celebrating National Poetry Day at the Lincoln Book Festival 2025!

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Claudia @ccapancioni.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This lunch time we are launching the Lincoln Book Festival 2025

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