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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 13d

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 5d

The latest issue is up on Muse! Featuring a forum on reproductive and sexual justice with the Victorians, a cluster of essays on Victorian video games, our Hamilton Prize winner for 2024, and the lovely and talented Aurora Leigh. Plus book reviews as always. Happy reading! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 29d

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 29d

Check out our beautiful new website! victorianreview.org

Victorian Review – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reminder! We are accepting proposals for a forum on Daniel Deronda to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Our forums feature short, op-ed style essays guest-edited by leading scholars. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1. See our website for more details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

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Jim Cheshire @jimchesh.bsky.social · Aug 7

Conference Announcement: Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment - cfp and details attached. Victorians scholars please circulate @lindakhughes.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianmasc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Jul 16

Daniel Deronda is turning 150 in 2026. Help us observe this milestone by submitting a short, op-ed style essay to an upcoming forum, guest edited by Ilana Blumberg, on George Eliot's world-changing novel. See our blog for details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Jul 10

Matthew Skwiat's latest post details how the use of melodrama was a crucial part of Carlyle's radical conservativism in The French Revolution (1837).
Blog Post: victorianreview.org?cat=217
Full Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

Hey grad students! Reminder: the Hamilton Prize deadline is coming up July 1. The winning essay gets publication in Victorian Review and $500 CAD. Visit the website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · May 27

Found this + outsourcing to companies that employ clearly unqualified/inexperienced/severely overworked human editors a huge problem. One collaborative project I'm involved in has been delayed for months b/c of botched production.

Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · May 27

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · May 27

Was joking a bit last week that @victorianreview.bsky.social should promote the fact that a single *experienced human copyeditor who we know* works on every journal issue, but maybe journals/publishers that do that really should promote that as a big advantage of working with them 🤔

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · May 27

Check out Allison Reising's latest post to learn about how Mary Ward represents the influential powers of the mesmerist in Robert Elsmere.
Blog Post: victorianreview.org?p=2221
Full Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · May 26

Hey grad students! The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up July 1! Get your work published in Victorian Review and receive $500 CAD. See website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Apr 22

Check out Ronja Frank's new post to learn how fairies in children's literature disrupted Victorian binaries!
Blog post: victorianreview.org?p=2199
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Full issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Apr 9

Check out Daniel Hannah's blog post about his new article on Henry James' In the Cage (1897) and its reflections upon air, contagions, and illness in Victorian Review 50.1. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Apr 8

VR 50.1 just dropped! Check out our forum on Victorian studies and climate change, guest-edited by Barbara Leckie. +The Secret Garden! In the Cage! The French Revolution! Mary Barton! Robert Elsmere! Happy reading. muse.jhu.edu/journal/508

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Apr 7

This year's Surridge Prize winner is Sarah Scaturro @saruzzza.bsky.social for her essay "'Penitential and Self-Mortifying': Mourning Crape in Fashion" in VR 49.1. It was judged "impressively wide-ranging" with an argument "eminently transportable." Congratulations, Sarah! muse.jhu.edu/issue/51172

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Apr 5

Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? Consider submitting it to the Victorian Review’s Hamilton Prize. The winner gets publication in the journal and receives $500 CAD! Submissions are due July 1st, 2025. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · Jan 8

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Dec 10

Many hands on the VR team are busy proofreading our upcoming issue! How does the climate crisis affect our work? Plus: The Secret Garden! The French Revolution! Robert Elsmere! More! You won't want to miss it.

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Dec 2

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · Nov 29

The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is live! Please circulate and send abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇

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An image of the Great Exhibition of 1851 opening ceremony, depicting Victorians gathering in the Crystal Palace in London, surrounded by white statues and swathes of red fabric. A fountain and tree stand in the background, inside the Crystal Palace. Black text on a pink background reads "Exhibiting the Nineteenth Century: VSAWC 2025, May 23-24, Regina, Saskatchewan.

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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · Nov 19

R.I.P.

Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87

A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Nov 18

@victorianreview.bsky.social please and thank you!

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Nov 18

We are pleased to announce that the Hamilton Prize winner for 2024 is Olivia Krauze for the essay "What is a Violent Emotion?" We look forward to publishing Olivia's essay in an upcoming issue. The runner up is Lucy Lawrence for an essay on "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895-97)."

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