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Ruth Quante
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Victorian literature and culture, first-wave feminism, women and (wage) labour
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Queer(ing) Urban Space is out now! I’m super happy to have contributed an article on Amy Levy’s oeuvre to this wonderful anthology.
February 1, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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drsallybd.bsky.social
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n... such a significant collection of materials for Victorianists and Lee scholars.
‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde
Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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zoethomas.bsky.social
CFP deadline coming up on 1st September for our “Power Couples” workshop next Spring. Do think about submitting a paper (work in progress stuff very welcomed!) We’ve had some wonderful proposals sent in relating to a wide array of different global contexts and methodological approaches - exciting!
zoethomas.bsky.social Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · Jul 16
Reposting our CfP for the “Power Couples” workshop - now with a new poster advertising the event kindly made for us by designer Marta Bartkowska!
August 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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aktange.bsky.social
Here's an excellent opportunity for anyone working on Margaret Oliphant! Please help spread the word. This special issue is looking for more contributors.
CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) | NAVSA
navsa.org
July 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
ruthquante.bsky.social
CFP - please share!
“Victorian Jewish Life”, 9-10 February 2026
Please send us your abstracts/expressions of interest by 14 July 2025 ☀️
July 3, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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zoethomas.bsky.social
Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.
Screen shot of word document detailing information about the “power couples” conference. Please email z.thomas@bham.ac.uk for more info.
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop

Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰

PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶

#MedHum #19Century #Victorian

shorturl.at/ePhU5
Mediating Medicine CfP_final.pdf
cloud.uni-konstanz - creative.together
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July 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
ruthquante.bsky.social
I have an article out in the newest issue of the Philological Quarterly! It discusses Habermas‘ idea of the public sphere and women talking politics at home in the late-nineteenth century ✨
May 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Thank you for organizing this panel, I had a wonderful time!
hleclair.bsky.social Hannah LeClair @hleclair.bsky.social · Mar 7
"The Country, the City, and the Suburbs" convened at NeMLA yesterday with a full slate of great papers and generative discussion. ("Sterile, tedious, and vulgar"?—it was anything but!) Thanks to our presenters and all who joined us. @ruthquante.bsky.social
The panel's abstract reads: Sterile, tedious, vulgar: suburban stereotypes abound. H. G. Wells thought “the Modern City looks like something that has burst an intolerable envelope and splashed.” John Ruskin found “no existing terms of language … to describe the forms of filth, and modes of ruin,” of suburban development. Yet these supposedly repulsive spaces were extraordinarily attractive. What do the suburbs offer our understanding of the novel’s social horizons? The nineteenth-century novel's realism has been primarily understood as a metropolitan phenomenon. How does literature from the Victorian era to the present, within and beyond realism and the British tradition, confirm or challenge assumptions about suburban spaces?
March 8, 2025 at 12:36 AM
ruthquante.bsky.social
Last week I (finally) submitted my PhD thesis! Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this journey.
February 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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sandradinter.bsky.social
Looking forward to hosting this event on walking women in Hamburg from 27-29 March 2025! #walkingwomen
Poster of the conference "New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures", including a photo of women's worn boots.
January 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
How long would your commute take in 1680? Mine would be about a day and a half.

@camunicampop.bsky.social has a brilliant tool for calculating travel times in Roman, 1680, 1830, 1911 and 2024. 🗃️
www.travelintimes.org/journey/52.2...
November 22, 2024 at 9:49 AM