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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to VPR’s 2026 prizewinners: Mehran Ghandi (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Sampurna Nandy (University of Bristol). They'll each receive $500 and publication in an upcoming issue of VPR. To learn more about our annual essay prizes, visit rs4vp.org/awards. @rs4vp.org #VictorianStudies

Flowered background with text that says: 2026 VPR Essay Prizes, Rosemary VanArsdel Prize, Mehran Ghandi, Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Expanding the Field Prize, Sampurna Nandy, University of Bristol. To learn more about VPR’s annual prizes, visit https://rs4vp.org/awards.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Check out the latest batch of book reviews in VPR 58.4: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57248 #VictorianStudies @rs4vp.org

Image of bookshelf accompanied by list of book reviews: Eleanor Bird, Beyond the Antislavery Haven: Slavery in Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789–1889, Reviewed by Mary L. Shannon; Marzena Kubisz, Children’s Vegetarian Culture in the Victoria Era: The Juvenile Food Reformers Press and Literary Change, Reviewed by Lesley Peterson; Ruth M. McAdams, Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature, Reviewed by Madeline B. Gangnes; Maria Damkjær, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, Reviewed by Teja Varma Pusapati; Sarah Dewis and Brent Elliott, eds., Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening, vol. 6, The Art of the Gardener, Reviewed by Chetna Jena, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 4, winter 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In VPR 58.4 Ruth Quante examines how politically diverse periodicals discussed women’s colleges in the 1870s-80s. Discover how The Women’s Penny Paper, Woman’s World, and Girl’s Own Paper relied on the rhetoric of separate spheres even when promoting women’s education: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Front page of Women’s Penny Paper 1, no. 4 (November 17, 1888). Accompanying text says Ruth Quante, “‘We are trying to change ourselves, not men’: The Education Question as Discussed in Victorian Periodicals for Women and Girls,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sarah Bliss argues that while the #Strand presented British masculinity and nat'l authority as enduring, The Hound of the Baskervilles forecasted the decline of both gendered and nat'l boundaries. In VPR 58.4, Bliss resituates Doyle’s novel in its periodical context: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Black-and-white drawing of a man in a suit with hat and cane in hand, illustration by Sidney Paget for The Hound of the Baskervilles, Strand Magazine 22 (October 1901): 248. Accompanying text says Sarah Bliss, “‘The home of my own people’: Masculinity and Nationalism in The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Strand Magazine,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Morgan Tanith Coleman examines how periodical fiction expressed public anxieties about outbreaks and intercultural contact as Britain began to recover from recurrent waves of cholera throughout the 1830s–60s. Read it in VPR 58.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Map of England showing cholera prevalence during the 1849 outbreak, sourced from Report on the Mortality of Cholera in England, 1848–49 (London: W. Clowes, 1852), Wellcome Library, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/acv8r4bv, image reproduced under a Public Domain Mark License. Accompanying text says Morgan Tanith Coleman, “Cholera Anxiety and the Judgment of God: Moral Attitudes Toward Disease in Victorian Family Magazines from the 1860s to 1880s,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In VPR 58.4, Shih-Wen Sue Chen analyzes how young readers of the religious periodical _The Children’s Prize_ were encouraged to think about their place within their natural environment. Read it at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl.... @rs4vp.org

Image of child picking flowers, cover illustration for The Prize, September 1884; Accompanying text that says Shih-Wen Sue Chen, “Boys as Destroyers, Girls as Preservers? Gender, Carelessness, and Animal Treatment in The Children’s Prize (1863–1931),” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

CFP: Movements & Migrations (Summer 2028). Building on the theme of #RSVP2026, this special issue will consider how the topic of movements and migrations helps us theorize #Victorian #periodicals in new ways. Proposals due September 1, 2026. Details at rs4vp.org/cfp-movement... @rs4vp.org

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VPR CFP: Movements & Migrations – RSVP

Victorian Periodicals Review calls for proposals for a special issue on "Movements and Migrations." Proposals due 1 September!

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

VPR 58.4 is hot off the press! It's great reading-whether you're gearing up for #RSVP26 in Dublin this week or just following the conference on our socials. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57248 @rs4vp.org

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Still hoping to apply for one of VPR’s annual prizes? Good news—we’ve extended the deadline to July 1! Learn more about the #VanArsdelPrize and the #ExpandingTheField Prize at rs4vp.org/awards. #CFP #VictorianStudies @rs4vp.org

Illustration of man waving a newspaper beside text that says: Deadline Extended to July 1; Victorian Periodicals Review is currently accepting essay submissions for two prizes: The VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The Expanding the Field Prize for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The winner for each prize will receive $500 and publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. Submissions should be emailed as an MS Word attachment to Katherine Malone, VPR Editor (vpr@rs4vp.org) by July 1, 2026.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Are you a grad student working on Victorian periodicals and newspapers? Submit your essay for @rs4vp.org's VanArsdel Prize, deadline June 15, 2026. The winner receives $500 and publication in VPR. rs4vp.org/awards/vanar... #VictorianStudies

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The winner will receive $500 and publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. Deadline: June 15, 2026. For more information, visit rs4vp.org/awards/vanarsdel-prize

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

VPR’s Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of C19 periodical studies. The winner receives $500 and publication in VPR. Submissions due June 15, 2026. More details at rs4vp.org/awards.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Anne McKee Stapleton considers how American and Scottish #editors harnessed Walter Scott’s global popularity to establish periodicals. Learn how the Waverley Magazine and Waverley Journal fostered literary alliances among women under the banner of #Waverley: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Left: Cover page of Waverley Magazine 5, no. 15 (October 9, 1852): 225; Right: Burgundy background with text that says: Anne McKee Stapleton, “Periodicals Published Under the Banner of Waverley,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, no. 3, Fall 2025

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/04/2026

How are periodical scholars decolonizing #19thC studies? Join us for our next #RSVPDigiEvent on Friday May 15 for a special roundtable featuring our past winners of the @vpreditors.bsky.social "Expanding the Field" Prize. As always, this event is free. Register here: rs4vp.org/expanding-fi...

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Expanding the Field, A Roundtable – RSVP

Join the RSVP Digital Events committee on Friday, May 15 for a roundtable with past winners of VPR's Expanding the Field Prize!

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In VPR 58.3, Joseph Brett-Demetre explores Reynolds’s revival of the term “flunkeyism” to accuse the first working-class MPs of class treachery. Learn how the term evolved from anti-aristocratic insult to influential concept of class betrayal in late C19 politics: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/985893

Left: decorative image of crumbling wall; Right: burgundy background with text that says: Joseph Brett-Demetre, “‘The Reward of Flunkeyism’: Diagnosing Class Treachery in Reynolds’s Newspaper,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, no. 3, Fall 2025

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In VPR 58.3, @laurenottaviani.bsky.social examines the discourse on photography in the monthly magazine _The Woman at Home_ (1893–1918). Read more about how women photographers visualized their work even as they reinforced domestic femininity: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Left: burgundy background with text that says: Lauren Ottaviani, “‘Catching the right expression’: Amateur and Professional Women’s Photography in The Woman at Home, 1893–1918,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, no. 3, Fall 2025; Right: Magazine page with heading that says “Amateur Photograph of a Pretty Child: Prize Pictures” above a photograph of young girl looking to the side.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

NEW ISSUE ALERT! We're so excited about the latest issue of VPR, which features essays on women's photography, Reynolds's Newspaper, and Walter Scott's transatlantic influence on women's magazines, along with the massive RSVP Bibliography 2020-24. ToC here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56615 @rs4vp.org

Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review 58.3, Fall 2025, showing photograph of a young girl titled “Amateur Photograph of a Pretty Child: Prize Pictures,” from Woman at Home 25 (August 1908): 439–42

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

CFP: VPR will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2027. We’re taking this historic occasion to capture the state of our field in a “KEYWORDS” special issue guest edited by Fionnuala Dillane, @jimmussell.bsky.social & @mdamkjaer.bsky.social. Proposals due March 30. Details: rs4vp.org/vpr-cfp-spec...

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VPR CFP: Special Issue on "Keywords" – RSVP

Victorian Periodicals Review invites proposals for an upcoming special issue on "Keywords" in the periodical press by Mar. 30.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We’re delighted to announce that @laurenottaviani.bsky.social (KU Leuven) has joined VPR's staff as Associate Editor. Lauren will oversee book reviews, and she welcomes suggestions for special features. Visit rs4vp.org/vpr/ to message the editors or volunteer to review a book. #VictorianStudies

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

In VPR 58.2, Sofie Vandepitte dives into Punch’s satire of British #seaside #tourism for the elite and lower classes. Discover how #Punch represented Welsh resorts as loci of both decadence and primitiveness: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

On left, burgundy background with text that says: Sofie Vandepitte, “Images of Welsh Seaside Tourism in Punch, or the London Charivari, 1841–1900,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, illustration of crowded tourist spot titled “Mr. Punch Visits Scarborough Spa,” from Punch, or the London Charivari, October 10, 1891, 178, HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$c190182.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

In VPR 58.2, Atul V. Nair examines how the Anglo-Indian "Calcutta Review" debated the value of Indian literatures with other Indian and British #periodicals. Learn how the CR used evangelical ideals to contest the authority of Orientalism in the 1840s-50s: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

On left, burgundy background with text that says: Atul V. Nair, “Literary Evangelicalism: The Calcutta Review and the Imperial Anglophone Periodical Circuit,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, image of masthead followed by lead article of Calcutta Review 3, no. 5 (1845): 1, HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000013013505.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In VPR 58.2, @kyleeanneh.bsky.social traces reproductions of F.W. Burton’s 1840 watercolor “A Blind Girl at A Holy Well” to consider how #periodicals deployed its sentimental depiction of blindness in mid-century debates about Irish culture and nationhood: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

On left, burgundy background with text that says: Kylee-Anne Hingston, “Blindness and Irish National Identity in the Textual Afterlife of F. W. Burton’s A Blind Girl at a Holy Well,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, The Blind Girl at the Holy Well, ca. 1869, print, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/2003674284.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

In VPR 58.2 @amymatthewson.bsky.social examines how ILN repurposed images of China in its 1842 coverage of the Opium War. Learn how violent textual accounts were juxtaposed with tranquil landscapes to create a cohesive narrative about British military power: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

On left, burgundy background with text that says: Amy Matthewson, “The Past in Present Knowledge: China in The Illustrated London News of 1842,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, color illustration titled “Portrait of Van-Ta-Zhin, a Military Mandarine (or Nobleman) of China,” from William Alexander, The Costume of China (London: W. Bulmer for W. Miller, 1805), 19. Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mqtz7ays.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

NEW ISSUE ALERT! You won’t want to miss these articles on China in the ILN, the textual afterlife of F. W. Burton’s A Blind Girl at a Holy Well, the Calcutta Review and the imperial anglophone periodical circuit, and images of Welsh seaside tourism in Punch. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55969 @rs4vp.org

Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025; covert art is “Portrait of a Soldier, in His Full Uniform.” William Alexander, The Costume of China (London: W. Bulmer for W. Miller, 1805), 83. Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mqtz7ays.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 24/11/2025

Many many thanks to our panelists, @kmalonephd.bsky.social (VPR), @devingarofalo.bsky.social (Victorian Poetry), and Janice Schroeder of @victorianreview.bsky.social for sharing their tips, tricks, wisdom, and insights!

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

VPR is seeking an Associate Editor to oversee book reviews and assist the editor with special features. This is a great opportunity for a #periodicals scholar looking to develop editorial and leadership skills. Applications are due December 15. Details at rs4vp.org/vpr-seeks-as... @rs4vp.org

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Rachel Calder examines how The Bookseller #tradejournal laid the foundation for the communication and information system that remains at the heart of today’s global #publishing industry. Read about founder Joseph Whitaker’s innovative strategies in VPR 58.1: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Front matter from The Bookseller, January 1858, accompanied by text that says: Rachel Calder, The Bookseller, the First Modern Trade Journal, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Front page of The Gartnavel Gazette; or Monthly Journal of the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum, Wednesday, July 6, 1853, image courtesy of Wellcome Collection, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jvk8aued/items?canvas=7. Accompanied by text that says: Mila Daskalova, Passing the Hours: Measuring, Recording and Experiencing Time Through Periodical Publishing in Victorian Asylums, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField

Illustration titled “Andhamunir Putraśok” from Sandeś 2, no. 1 (Baiśāk 1321/April–May 1914), courtesy of Jadavpur University Central Library, Kolkata. Image accompanied by text that says: Nilkantha Pal, Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and
Vernacular Publishing, ca. 1880–1920, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 15/09/2025

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

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The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In VPR 58.1 @adeleguyton.bsky.social compares Pearson’s 1897 serialization of "The War of the Worlds" to #hgwells ’s later revisions for book publication. Discover how the serial narrator underscores the value of layperson experiences to scientific knowledge: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Illustration for “The War of the Worlds” showing a man at a telescope, Pearson’s Magazine 3 (April 1897): 365. Accompanied by text that says: Adele Guyton, “A Certain Amount of Scientific Education”: Science, Sensation, and the Everyman Narrator in the Serialised War of the Worlds (1897), Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org

Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, spring 2025; burgundy background with illustration of alien aircraft from H. G. Wells's _The War of the Worlds_.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Congrats to yevhenyashchuk.bsky.social for his #VanArsdelPrize winning essay “‘A Special Correspondent of the Times Sends a Telegram from Odessa’: Kyiv Newspapers, Victorian Media, and the Translation of the International Crisis in 1875–78.” Learn about VPR’s prizes at rs4vp.org/awards. @rs4vp.org

Background of gold stars with banner that says: Congratulations! 2025 VanArsdel Prize winner Yevhen Yashchuk, Wadham College, Oxford.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Every issue of Victorian Periodicals Review includes reviews of new academic titles related to #periodicals studies. If you're a scholar interested in reviewing for VPR, just visit rs4vp.org/vpr to volunteer and indicate your areas of expertise. @rs4vp.org #RSVP2025

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Drawing on #PeriodicalStudies, #narratology, and #MediaTheory, Camille Stallings reveals the structures of anti-working-class bias in a range of journalistic genres. See how narrative techniques shape public opinion about the working classes in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Illustration titled “Scenes in the Courtyard of the Tuileries,” from Illustrated London News, March 4, 1848, 139. Image shows drawing of a revolutionary mob carrying weapons, flag, drum, and wine bottles. Accompanied by text that says: Camille Stallings, “Seriality and Characterisation in the Press: Death Club Sensationalism, the 1848 Revolutions, and Reviews of Mary Barton,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Anne-Marie Millim considers how #Dickens ’s journals championed the view that only a native speaker can master a language. Learn how contributors to #HouseholdWords and #AllTheYearRound worked to implement a prestige language in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Image of Charles Dickens seated at a table with books, ca. 1860.{{PD-US}} Accompanied by text that says: Anne-Marie Millim, “Crossing Currents: The Mother Tongue, Monolingualism, and Multilingualism in Household Words and All the Year Round,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Annemarie McAllister examines the surprising success of the #Temperance Companion (1894–1901) in navigating the currents of the commercial market. Read about this weekly broadsheet’s adventurous female editor and its relationship to #NewJournalism in VPR57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Image of Temperance card from the tarot deck of Jean Dodal, a classic Tarot of Marseilles deck, ca. 1701-15.{{PD-US}} Accompanied by text that says: Annemarie McAllister, “Commercialised Temperance: The Phenomenon of the Temperance Companion and How It Stayed Afloat,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Sara Lodge @victoriandetective.bsky.social analyzes how Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett's detective stories, published as a series in local papers, interrogate capitalism from a feminist and socialist viewpoint. Read more in VPR 57.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Image of an advertisement for The Adventures of Dora Bell, Detective, by Mrs. George Corbett, Author of “Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office,” &c. from the Fife Free Press and Kirkaldy Guardian, December 30, 1893. At center of ad is a head-and-shoulders sketch of Burgoyne Corbett. Accompanying text says: Sara Lodge, “Cash for Questions: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s Female Detectives, Journalism, and the Case of the Missing Income,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

In VPR 57.4, Ali Hatapçı @alihatapci.bsky.social examines how the Gardeners’ Chronicle, The Builder, and The Field presented general news content to their specialist readers. Learn more about the surprising role of news in transforming class #periodicals: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Full page from The Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, three-column layout with a black-and-white drawing of a plant in the center. Accompanying text says: Ali Hatapçı, “General News in Early and Mid-Victorian Class Periodicals: The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1841–70,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

VPR's special issue "Currents and Currencies in the #Victorian #PeriodicalPress" is out now! Huge thanks to guest editors Victoria Clarke (@vjctorianist.bsky.social) and Annemarie McAllister. Check out their intro essay: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Cover of VPR 57.4, Special Issue: Currents and Currencies. Image credit: “The Revolution in France,” London Illustrated News, February 26, 1848, 118.

Table of contents:

Introduction
Currents and Currencies in the Victorian Periodical Press
VICTORIA CLARKE AND ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER

Articles
General News in Early and Mid-Victorian Class Periodicals: The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1841–70
ALI HATAPÇI

Cash for Questions: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s Female Detectives, Journalism, and the Case of the Missing Income
SARA LODGE

Commercialised Temperance: The Phenomenon of the Temperance Companion and How It Stayed Afloat
ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER

Crossing Currents: The Mother Tongue, Monolingualism, and Multilingualism in Household Words and All the Year Round
ANNE-MARIE MILLIM

Seriality and Characterisation in the Press: Death Club Sensationalism, the 1848 Revolutions, and Reviews of Mary Barton
CAMILLE STALLINGS

Book Reviews

Biographies

Endnotes

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 08/06/2025

⏰ Countdown's on! Just 1 week left to submit to VPR's Expanding the Field Prize! $500 + VPR publication for work that challenges our perceptions of Victorian periodical studies. Deadline is June 15. rs4vp.org/awards/victo... #ExpandTheField #RSVPprizes #DecolonizeVictorianStudies

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Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize – RSVP

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

The scholars and students behind “One More Voice” describe their work to identify, encode, publish, and analyze #BIPOC voices from #Victorian missionary #periodicals. See how this material can transform how we teach canonical texts like Jane Eyre in VPR 57.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Screenshot of One More Voice website, accompanied by text that says: Ava Bindas, Kenneth Crowell, Joanne Ruth Davis, Dino Franco Felluga, Jun Yi Goh, Cherrie Kwok, K. Marielle Morgan, Rebecca Nesvet, and Adrian S. Wisnicki, "COVE, One More Voice, and the Recovery of BIPOC Voices from Victorian Periodicals," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 22/05/2025

Have a draft that disrupts the traditional boundaries of #VictorianStudies? Consider submitting it for VPR's Expanding the Field Prize, which honors essays that diversify #19thC periodical studies. Deadline is June 15. Details on our site: rs4vp.org/awards/victo... #DecolonizeTheArchive #RSVPprizes

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 26/05/2025

Putting the final touches on your final #19thC periodicals paper? Why not submit it to our VanArsdel Prize? Submissions are open through June 15! The best grad student essay on Victorian periodicals wins $500 + publication in VPR. rs4vp.org/awards/vanar... #VanArsdelPrize #RSVPprizes

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The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize – RSVP

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a…

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Leslee Thorne-Murphy describes her students’ research and editing work for the Victorian Short Fiction Project, a peer-reviewed digital anthology. Learn how to translate humanities skill sets to life beyond the academy in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Screenshot of Victorian Short Fiction Project website, accompanied by text that says: Leslee Thorne-Murphy, "Experiential Learning and the Value of Novice Scholars: Victorian Short Fiction and the Periodical Market," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Iain Crawford argues that undergraduate research experiences are ever more important for demonstrating the value of English studies. Learn how periodicals are especially well-suited sites for student research in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Cover of the Illustrated London News for August 15, 1857, with image of ships landing at Isle of Wight, accompanied by text that says: Iain Crawford, "Periodicals, Undergraduate Research, and Disciplinary Futures: The Promise of Course-Embedded Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

#Periodicals scholars (@rs4vp.org etc). How do you quantify your data? I'm researching adverts and the moment and have been using simple numbers (e.g. issue X has Y no. of advert content) as this is the most straightforward. However, space and sizing is a much more pressing issue for advert content!

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Rather than offering a lit survey framed by key contexts, Madeline B. Gangnes requires undergrads to actively excavate those contexts by reading non/fiction in periodicals. Check out VPR 57.3 to learn how digital #VictorianStudies courses can succeed at small colleges: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of students’ Perusall comments beside cover of The Yellow Book, accompanied by text that says: Madeline B. Gangnes, "Digital, Archival, and Collaborative Approaches in the Undergraduate Victorian Studies Classroom," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Melissa Free uses C19 children’s periodicals in undergrad classes to deepen student investment in the period and foster appreciation of the research process. Read about her research assignments for BOP and GOP in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #VictorianStudies

Cover of the Boy’s Own Paper for April 11, 1891, showing two boys fighting; accompanying text says: Melissa Free, "Undergraduate Research in Late Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Children’s Periodicals," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

In Megan Burke Witzleben’s gen ed course, students connect Victorian serials with modern mass media. Check out VPR’s new pedagogy issue to learn how she uses the London Journal’s 1863 serialization of Lady Audley’s Secret to undiscipline the classroom: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Screenshots of student-created social media for Lady Audley's Secret, accompanied by text that says: Megan Burke Witzleben, "Serial Readers: First-Year College Students Reimagine Lady Audley’s Secret," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.

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