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

Relieved to be finally at the @vpfa.bsky.social conference & have Victorianist info & ideas piped into my brain. 'When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Victorian Popular Fiction Association.' #VPFAPublics

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

"If you think students are using AI, what are you doing to make them NOT use AI?" - Lucie #VPFAPublics

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Do you work on Ann Radcliffe? Do you work on women writers and producers of the Gothic and horror? Do you work on topics related to people of marginalised genders in the Gothic? Join us! Submit an abstract for our upcoming online conference! romancingthegothic.com/2025/10/15/r...

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Romancing the Gothic 2026 Online Conference CFP

More Terrors than her Reason Could Justify A 200th Anniversary Celebration of Ann Radcliffe’s Posthumous Publications 22nd/23rd August 2026 2026 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of An…

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

'I want that fable on my desk, AESOP!'

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CfP for VPFA's 18th Annual Conference is now live and the topic is 'Victorians and their Publics'. To read the CfP and full submission guidelines online, please head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-....

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Merci à toi, Stefanie, for your fantastic paper! I was delighted to meet you

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Stefanie John @stjohn1819.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Merci beaucoup for hosting this fantastic event, Emilie!

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

What a delight it was to organise the Vernon Lee and the European Cultural Heritage conference in Paris these last two days! So many amazing people and wonderful encounters... such fantastic talks! It was an honour to organise this conference with Christophe Gelly and to meet so many great scholars.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

What's this!? An online conference!? Dedicated to the ghostly and weird tales! Celebrating 100 years of M R James 'A Warning to the Curious'? With fantastic authors! Incredible panels! Writing workshops! Fantastic keynote speakers! Check it out!! buytickets.at/romancingthe...

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Buy tickets – A Warning to the Curious: A Ghostly Online Conference – Zoom

Romancing the Gothic presents its fifth annual online conference over two days - 23rd and 24th August. The conference celebrate...

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Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Now we have Betty Hagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes

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Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous in Arthur Machen’s fiction through the theories of German philosopher and theologian Rudolph Otto #VPFAExtremes

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Dr Natasha Booth-Johnson @nbooth-johnson.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Had such a fab time at #VPFAExtremes (as usual) and met so many lovely people (also as usual). Saw this cool window, too (less usual).

A photograph of the stained glass window in Birmingham Cathedral. The window shows the acesnsion of Christ. By Edward Burne-Jones & William Morris' studio. If you look closely, you can see Morris patterns in the glass panels.

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Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes

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Kit Richards @kitrichards.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#VPFAExtremes Emilie Laurent describes how castrati were considered immoral and monstrous by the Victorians for transgressing boundaries of sex and gender, and highlights Vernon Lee's criticism of gender nonconforming voices.

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It was an honour and a pleasure to give this paper today at the wonder #VPFAextremes conference! Many thanks to the lovely audience 💜

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Anna @annaulrika75.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Keynote 2 is Richard Fallon: Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction. #VPFAExtremes

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Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

And finishing off this panel is @emilieslaurent.bsky.social with her exploration of the monstrous extremes of gender in the figure of the castrato in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ #VPFAExtremes

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Anna @annaulrika75.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Ifill very interestingly compares office Gothic to traditional Gothic novels: where the heroine in a traditional Gothic novel can grow through conquering various trials, the office worker does the same through his daily trudge and problem solving. #vpfaextremes

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Becca @beccalham.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Hypnotism was predominantly undertaken by masculine men upon female subjects. Much fin de siecle fiction explores the dangers of hypnotism and its potential for sexual exploitation #VPFAExtremes

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Dr Helena Esser @helenaesser.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Just chaired an excellent first panel of #VPFAExtremes with fellow #Birkbeck Victorianists @janetteleaf.bsky.social, Jeremy Newton, & Gordon Bates on Hypnotic Gothic Fictions!

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Becca @beccalham.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

'This woman, by her own explanation, can dominate my nervous organism. She can project herseledf into my body and take command of it [...] She is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell' -The parasite #VPFAExtremes

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Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes

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Anna @annaulrika75.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

"What kind of writer you are depends a lot on who's holding the pen, who 'places you where'" in the catalogue - Carolyn Oulton on how for example Dickens is grouped with different authors/in different genres depending on when and where his works were read. #VPFAExtremes

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I had the immense honour of carrying out a week-long research stay at the British Institute of Florence last week and to consult the Vernon Lee Archive, which contains 400 volumes from Vernon Lee’s personal library, annotated in her own hand. What a treasure trove of discoveries!

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Congratulations! Immediately adding it to my TBR pile--it sounds like a compelling read!

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Registration for the upcoming "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage" conference in Paris (Sept 18-19) is now open! You can register here: dr01.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/... #vernonlee #victorian #conference

This is a pamphlet for the confeernce "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage: Reciprocal influences and intermedial dialogue," held in Paris on September 18-19.

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Our official journal for @incsa.bsky.social is open for submissions. As the editor responsible for themed issues I'm seeking innovative proposals connected to any aspect of the 19thC. If interested, get in touch with me directly. Journal info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research

Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Registration for the upcoming "Vernon Lee and the European cultural heritage" conference in Paris (Sept 18-19) is now open! #vernonlee #victorian #conference dr01.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/...

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

So happy and proud to publish my very first article! It is called "Sympathy for the Devil: Failed Catharsis and Universal Guilt in Agatha Christie’s Curtain", in Clues, and it truly is a labor of love. Finally a dream has come true! elizabethfoxwell.blogspot.com/2025/04/clue...

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Clues 43.1: Christie, Hamilton, Hammett, Høeg, multilingual study, Ukrainian crime fiction.

A blog focusing on the history of mystery/detective fiction.

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Doctorant.e.s en littérature, plus que quelques jours pour nous envoyer vos propositions ! 👍

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Avis aux doctorants et jeunes chercheurs en littérature ! Journée d'études "Voyages et Transformations" ! 📍 Où ? Clermont-Ferrand 📅 Quand ? Le 3 octobre 2025 🗓️ Envoyez-nous vos propositions avant le 29 mai 2025 ! Nous avons hâte de lire vos propositions ! www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

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Voyages et transformations. Journée d’études des doctorant.e.s du CELIS (Clermont-Ferrand)

Journée d’études des doctorant.e.s du CELIS « Voyages et transformations » Université Clermont Auvergne - CELIS UR 4280 MSH de Clermont-Ferrand, 3 octobre 2025 « Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce...

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Thank you so much for inviting me! I was very honoured, and delighted to discuss Vernon Lee, culture and the Gothic with you all!

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Eagerly waiting to meet you all! Thank you so much for inviting me to speak about Vernon Lee tomorrow

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Tatiana Fajardo @tatiana1979.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Edgar Allan Poe by Charles Addams

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Major new publication for the #TravelWriting Studies folk - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing, edited by the dream-team of @afquaireau.bsky.social, Emanuelle Peraldo and Samia Ounoughi. Lots of excellent stuff in here and some interesting perspectives on contemporary work.

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

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Voyages et transformations. Journée d’études des doctorant.e.s du CELIS (Clermont-Ferrand)

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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

In exciting news, The Routledge History of the Devil is up and available to preview (and ask your libraries to consider preordering). It will be out in May. I am sorry to report that, though it comes in at nearly 600 pages, we couldn't *quite* stretch it to 666: www.routledge.com/.../Raiswe.....

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The Routledge History of the Devil in the Western Tradition

Covering a period of 2000 years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devil's role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies, and an...

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🚨Extended deadline for this exciting Vernon Lee conference in Paris! New deadline for submission is March 21. We can't wait to read your abstracts! #vernonlee #cfp #19thcentury #literature #victorianliterature

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Emilie Laurent @emilieslaurent.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Fantastic! Thank you so much for the info!

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Ann Radcliffe, Then and Now @radcliffecup.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The lecture won't be livestreamed, but it will be recorded and uploaded to our website!

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Doriane Nemes @dodoriane.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Delighted to announce that the call for papers for our ‘Authors as Characters in Fiction, Film and Graphic Narratives’ conference is now open! 📆 Deadline: 1st September 2025 📍Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France) More details below 👇🏻

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