Event: Victorian Promises: The Promise of the Cosmos (01/27/23) – Zoom Series: bit.ly/3jSM3Xq

Did you know that program officers from NEH Education can discuss your project ideas, or even read drafts before you submit them? Find PC Fleming at #MLA23 #MLA2023 to learn more MLA News

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Registration for VSAWC 2023 is now open! We can't wait to gather in Winnipeg this May and celebrate the ongoing success of VSAWC and the Victorian Review. Register on the conference website today: vsawc2023.ca

Original manuscript of Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, vol. 7, 1855-1857 collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1709009

The Popular Culture Summer Research Institute is back! A select group of researchers will be given the opportunity to work directly with the nationally recognized Browne Popular Culture Library @ BGSU archive. Find more info and apply here: bit.ly/3xMaWHW #BGSU #BGSULibraries

Alessandro Cabiati opens British Association of Decadence Studies conference with their keynote, ‘Marvellous Abnormalities’. Q from Jane Desmarais 🕷🇪🇺🇺🇦🌻🏳️‍🌈🦋 - might fairytales be a good place to find decadent children in literature, who are otherwise almost absent from decadent fiction?

Happy Birthday to polymath, May Morris: designer of wallpaper, jewellery, textiles, stained glass and many other arts and crafts. She was also an embroiderer, author, editor, lecturer, artist, feminist, socialist and business woman. #OTD #MayMorris

Male impersonator Hetty King was #BOTD in 1883. Her signature song was "Ship Ahoy! (All The Nice Girls Love A Sailor)" which she first introduced at the Liverpool Empire in 1908. She is immortalised in a long list of #musichall stars in the opening lines of Novello's "Vitality".

On 18 October, Mary Barton was published in two volumes to critical acclaim. Elizabeth received £100 (about £12000 today). 1848 was an enormously important year for Elizabeth Gaskell. But what else was happening that year? ow.ly/VXMs50NuKtm

A view of one of the incredible eight rooms of ‘The Rossettis’ exhibition, opening at Tate today. This gallery focusses on the artistic collaboration and personal relationship between Siddal and Rossetti. Seeing their artwork in conversation next to each other is wonderful.

It gives us great pleasure to circulate the CFP for the inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, to be held in Durham in 10-12 July 2024. All proposals are due on 1 September 2023 CFP below: in-csa.com/call-for-paper…

Victorian Elements Thursday, October 19th to Saturday, October 21st, 2023 Abstracts by April 16 at the Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA Keynote Speaker: Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington) visawus.org/visawus-confer…

#OTD 1868, #Manchester suffrage society holds pubic meeting at which, for the first time, women were among the speakers” Here we go! victorianweb.org/gender/votechr…

Victorian Elements Thursday, October 19th to Saturday, October 21st, 2023 Abstracts by April 16 at the Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA Keynote Speaker: Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington) visawus.org/visawus-confer…

Don't forget, we're kicking off our June with Richard Altick's *Shows of London* and its relation to media history...*checks diary*...next week! Join us 9 June for our next #RSVPDigEv where we discuss the above with the scintillating Matt Poland: rs4vp.org/come-discuss-a…

Dear friends, sad news—George Landow, Founder & former Ed-in-Chief of our pioneering website, passed away on 31 May after a long illness. He left the website as a foundation with an editorial board—a wonderful & lasting legacy. Donations in his memory at victorianweb.org

Pregnancy & Childbirth on the Victorian Web: our virtual launch is tomorrow, June 20. Mini-presentations on Victorian breastfeeding, maternity dress, embryology, medical advice manuals, anatomical models, and miscarriage. Pls RSVP for a Zoom link as indicated below.