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Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 30th birthday to the best road album, the best studio/live hybrid album, the best end-of-an-era album, and Michael Stipe's own favorite R.E.M. album.

R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (back cover of the CD)

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Coming soon...

Front cover for New Directions in the Ghost Story Vol. 2, the image is a c19th illustration of a group gathered around the fire while an "old wife" tells them a story.

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Huge congratulations to Joanna Turner on the publication of her new book, Marie Corelli, in our Key Popular Women Writers Series!! 🎉 The book explodes the myths of prior biographies, revealing Corelli the performer, her working-class roots, and her hidden periodical publications of the 1870s.

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We are very excited to share yet another addition to the Key Popular Women Writers Series: congratulations to Susan Civale on the publication of Mary Shelley! 🎉 This study reveals previously unseen continuities in Shelley's work and affinities with other women writers!

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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hem hem. ‘It is difficult to imagine a better account of James’s life ever being written.’

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Miranda Jubb @mirandamiranda.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Couldn’t figure out where I recognized her name from and then I realised I picked up a book of hers from somewhere… now I’m intrigued to lean more! Sharing because I love this cover.

Old copy of Corelli’s “The Sorrows of Satan,” with an lovely illustration of a star flanked by angel wings and the quote “O Lucifer Son of the Morning, how fallen art thou”

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Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I first came across her with The Mighty Atom in the Dennis Wheatley Library of the Occult. (My teenage introduction to a whole raft of writers.)

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Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Thank you. I look forward to reading about Marie Corelli, who's long been a source of fascination for me. I didn't have much room for her in this book, but I did write a bit more here... thelionandunicorn.com/2017/12/16/i...

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Imperial fiction: Boy

ALWYN TURNER reads Marie Corelli’s forgotten Boer War fable from 1900.

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@alwynturner.bsky.social Thank you for the repost! I am currently reading your book for my next project - it’s brilliant!

Alwyn Turner’s book Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

What a wonderful feeling – it’s publication day for my book on Marie Corelli! Thanks to my amazing editors @helenaifill.bsky.social and Janine Hatter for all their support. I’m so proud to be a contributor to their series on Key Popular Women Writers. @vpfa.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social

The cover for Marie Corelli by Joanna Turner. It depicts an image of a woman in Victorian dress, standing on a rock and pointing out to sea. Her hair is blowing in the breeze.

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

No better way to celebrate the imminent publication of my very own book (a week today!) than showing off a personalised @gailmyerscough.co.uk print including my opening sentences! Cheers, Gail - I love it 😍

A Gail Myerscough print (green typewriter on black background) personalised with the first lines of my book ‘Marie Corelli’ - “It was nearly Christmas Eve in the quintessentially English town of Stratford-upon-Avon. The traditional sounding of the Guild Chapel curfew bell had occurred hours ago. It was almost midnight”.

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I'm reading the new book on Marie Corelli by @coppertapestry.bsky.social and it's BRILLIANT! So readable, entertaining & field-transforming. Whether you are a Corelli nut or not, I urge you to treat yourself to a copy: www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie...

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Truly honored and deeply grateful to have been awarded the Greta Depledge Prize for best postgraduate paper, given by @vpfa.bsky.social at its 18th annual conference for my paper on Arthur Machen’s manipulative storytelling. This award means more to me than I can put into words. Thank you ❤️

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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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Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A *fantastic* time at #VPFAPublics the last few days. Fascinating papers, fruitful discussions (Some fun things on the horizon)... Caught up with old pals, made some new ones - every year I'm blown away by the incredible warmth of @vpfa.bsky.social. All the thanks to Jo and Janine for organising!

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What a fantastic three days at #VPFAPublics in Liverpool! I had an amazing time in one of the most beautiful venues I’ve ever seen. Such a joy to learn more about Victorian popular fiction while catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. Can’t wait for next year!

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Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Bodies panel was certainly one of my favourites too. Fascinating research presented at #VPFAPublics day 2.

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

@andrewkingc19.bsky.social talking about how Victorians marketed Pop Fiction - and I’m very excited to learn more about Victorian marketing, particularly design and product placement! Makes me think of my trawling through Punch for crumbs of context! #VPFAPublics

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

Can you imagine trying to de-anonymise 22 Victorian sensation novels? Because Janine Hatter can! What an amazing project 😱 #VPFAPublics

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Heather Ray Milligan @hrmilligan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

very pleased to have signed the advance contract for my first monograph, Ecogothic America and the Twenty-First-Century Novel, with @edinburghup.bsky.social !

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Helena Ifill discussing Charlotte Riddell's direct addresses to the reader, arguing that they were used as part of her campaign to become "the" novelist of London. city. Though she was interested in the lives of city women, her USP was the lives and hearts of city businessmen #VPFAPublics

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Bodies - WHAT A PANEL at #vpfapublics It was absolutely brilliant! I loved hearing from Megan Nash, Anna-Maria Grill, and @ebutler-way.bsky.social about their fascinating research! @vpfa.bsky.social

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Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Jo’s fantastic Corelli book will be out in August!

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Order up Bowie's guitar to hold and strum? Byzantine glass shards to hold to the light? Beatrix Potter watercolours to peer at closely? This is so very very cool. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/a...

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A One-on-One Date With a Museum’s Treasures

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Thanks @vpfa.bsky.social for having me at #vpfapublics I loved being in the company of Beniko Inamura and my wonderful PhD supervisor @braddonite.bsky.social

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Theatricalities panel. @braddonite.bsky.social (Anne-Marie Beller): For Braddon, theatre = metaphor for social performance. "Acting" explores social performativity. Complex, shifting reps of actresses reflect changing ideas about acting.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"Deerstalker" hats are dangerously genderqueer fashion for women, thought Marie Corelli? Sherlock's hat? @coppertapestry.bsky.social #VPFAPublics

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Jo Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social : Marie Corelli gave public speeches to "my public" of 1000s. Literary celebrity-> "platform poetry." Inconsistent, as Corelli bashed women for unfeminine public speech? Check out Jo's biography of Corelli from the VPWW Series. #VPFAPublics

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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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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Prepare to be Corellied @vpfa.bsky.social conference-goers! In the pack there’s a special offer for delegates to pre-order this beauty (is she winking? I like to think so!), and I’ll be speaking in panel two on Monday. The book can be ordered from EER next month www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie...

The cover of Marie Corelli by Joanna Turner. Part of the Key Popular Women Writers Series. The cover depicts an illustration of a dark haired woman in Victorian clothing standing on a rock, pointing into the distance with the sea behind her and the wind in her hair.

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Wim Van Mierlo @wvmierlo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Come and study English and History with us on our new joint honours degree at @lborouniversity.bsky.social. Or better yet: tell all the 17-year olds you know. www.lboro.ac.uk/study/underg... #Loughborough #HE #undergraduate #BA #English #History

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English and History BA | Undergraduate study | Loughborough University

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Andrew King @andrewkingc19.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Been thinking about #critical #creativity/ #creative #criticism recently as alternatives to literary critical essays and decided to set extracts from #Ouida novels to music, and then music video. Here's the first. How successful is it at clarifying her argument here? youtu.be/JSDkZsMKjS4

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Characters from Ouida, for Voice and String Quartet. 1 Bebee and the Sun

YouTube video by Andrew King

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Dr Joanna Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Bestselling novelist Marie Corelli was born today in 1854 as Caroline Cody. It’s a great day to perform a cover reveal for my volume of the @vpfa.bsky.social Key Popular Women Writers series on Corelli—out VERY soon. I am incredibly excited for it to be out in the world! @lboroenglish.bsky.social

A book cover image for the Key Popular Women Writers volume on Marie Corelli written by Joanna Turner. It depicts a painting of a woman standing on a rock, the sea and vast sky behind her. She points into the distance, winking, with the wind blowing her dark hair. She is dressed in a long skirt, blouse, and scarf, and wears boots

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

#EnglishCreates: Futures Today, Prof Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University) discusses the profound value of reading in the age of social media: 'Just as smart phones and social media sites train us in one way, proper reading trains us in another...' universityenglish.ac.uk/really-readi...

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Claire O’Callaghan @drclaireocall.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Invited to write this short piece for The Conversation on the dark, poetic origins of Wuthering Heights. Her Gothic imagination was nothing short of electrifying. #books #gothicliterature #wutheringheights #bronte #bookstagram

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Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I am so pleased to share that I passed my viva yesterday!! Working on my PhD thesis (‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social has been a wonderful experience thanks to my incredible supervisory team @drclaireocall.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social 💕🦋🫀

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Dr Anne-Marie Beller FRHistS @braddonite.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...

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Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: 27th March 2026

A VPFA Study DayHosted by Loughborough University Registration now open! Click here to register Scroll down for the Study Day Programme The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect…

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Happy Shrove Tuesday! Want to know how to make pancakes the way the Elizabethans ate them? And what boozy ingredients have been used in pancakes and fritters throughout history? Our own @saralread.bsky.social has written for @theconversation.com about the curious history of pancakes 🥞

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A history of pancake recipes – from Elizabethan ale to the invention of self-raising flour

One recipe suggests using ‘snow’ as a winter alternative to eggs.

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Our Head of Department @sadiseshiah.bsky.social has published a new book chapter - 'Staging Utopian Subjects: Contemporary British Theatre Beyond the Barriers' - in The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture Since 1945.

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The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Cambridge Core - English Literature after 1945 - The Cambridge Companion to British Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki... @rs4vp.org #Victorian

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Dr Hannah Victoria Palmer @hannahpalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨

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Verification of a Date in the Gaskell Letters: Mrs Glover’s Original Patient Case Notes

‘Poor Mrs Glover’, wrote Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘[…] the operation is to be today’.1 There are nine letters featuring Mrs Glover and her diagnosis and treatmen

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 21/01/2026

Did you read or review a great new book on #19thC periodical studies? Was it published in the last year? If yes, nominate it for a Colby Book Prize! We're still accepting nominations through 31 January. [NB: For tax reasons, authors *cannot* self-nominate.] More info here:

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The Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – RSVP

The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, Vineta Colby, distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’s death, the Board of…

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I was going through some old files and found these scans from Lewis Carroll's handwritten manuscript "Alice’s Adventures Underground" (1862). He originally gave it to Alice Liddell as a Christmas gift. The full text was available at the BL before the infamous hack.

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Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

"Alternate Histories of the Body" is next week! I'm highlighting our workshop, "Experiencing Academia Through the Body" by Francesca Young Kaufman (11:15 AM GMT). Join us if you're interested in neuroscience-based tools for managing academic stress. The workshop is free and online. #AcademicSky 1/4

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BSLS Winter Symposium: Alternate Histories of the Body

Alternate Histories of the Body is the 2026 British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Patrick Morgan on Contesting Earth's History in the Review of English Studies: 'beautifully detailed, intricately researched, and compelling'. What more could you wish for? The review, for those with access: academic.oup.com/res/advance-...

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Richard Fallon. Contesting Earth’s History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of Geology and Palaeontology

What if humans could tell the story of Earth’s history without rocks, or at least without an over attachment to the rock record as interpreted by palaeosci

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Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

'Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem ...' Our own Jade French writes for @theconversation.com about three newly discovered Virginia Woolf stories:

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The Life of Violet: three unearthed early stories where Virginia Woolf’s genius first sparks to life

These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.

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