Register for our #Ruskin conference on Sept 6th here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/goodness-tru… @ARU_AHSS ARU ARU 19thCentury

You want to know what makes Victorian children's books truly great? KILLER PARROTS.

Call for papers: "Dickens and Impact", a conference to be held 26-29 March 2020 at The University of Buckingham. 150 years after his death, we'll be assessing the extent of his legacy and influence. Proposals of up to 500 words are welcome! For further details see: dickensimpact.art.blog/2019/08/12/cal…

Very pleased to be speaking at the BAVS2019 President's Panel at Dundee #bavs2019 with Lindsay Blair and Michael Sanders. I'll be talking about old age, nostalgia, & also quite a lot about Gaskell's Cranford. #amazons #eleganteconomy #gerotwitter #oldage #renewal #presidentspanel

'After the rediscovery of a 19th-century novel, our view of black female writers is transformed' "For decades historians recognized only three other 19th-century novels written and published by African-Americans." theconversation.com/after-the-redi… #victorian #twitterstorians #19thC

The #NAVSA2019 program is now live. Check it out! navsa2019.org/program

We're currently hard at work finding exciting #Chicago excursions and local venues for attendees of #MVSA2020! Meanwhile, remember to submit your abstract for the CFP "Victorian Truth, Investigation, & Mystery" by the DEADLINE of September 30th! Details: dropbox.com/s/ydzp3m9wpg40…

The #MVSA2020 CFP, abstracts due 30 September 2019 for the 24-25 April 2020 conference at Loyola University Chicago's Water Tower campus...we look forward to seeing many of you there and hearing your #Victorian research! UIC English @UChicagoHum

CFP: “Women Writers and Social/Political Activism” (8/1/2020) bit.ly/36qD1EJ

Before Westeros and Middle Earth, there was the Glass Town Federation, a fictitious world created by the Brontë siblings. @isabelgreenberg's Glass Town—out this week—is an account of the young Brontë's lives, set in the world of their imagination. bit.ly/GetGlassTown

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Today's #portraitoftheday is the clasped hands of celebrated poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, cast in bronze by sculptor Harriet Hosmer during the couple's time in Italy.

Member Publication: Thomas Albrecht, The Ethical Vision of George Eliot bit.ly/2S2ycgC

CFP: Revolution(s), Evolution(s), Circulation(s) (2/14/2020; 9/10-12/2020) bit.ly/2OvpHbO

CFP: Mapping Space, Mapping Time, Mapping Texts (2/29/2020; 7/16-17/2020) bit.ly/2Slsgyi

Please join me in congratulating one of our founding members, DR. Grace Pregent, on the successful defense of her dissertation!! 🎉 And on Zoom, no less! 🎉🎉

Belatedly sharing a #Brontë quiz by my good friend & all-round gent, John Hennessey, who maintains the piano at the Brontë Parsonage Museum 💖This 1st quiz was released a month ago. Will share the link to the 2nd too Pls RT all Brontë folk! bronteblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/keepin… #Brontë200 #Anne2020

No music from me yesterday because #theshowmustbepaused, #blackouttuesday. Back now with a bit on race, colour and hope. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a black mixed race Victorian/Edwardian Londoner. I've not heard this great music for Othello for 30 years podbean.com/media/share/pb…

Consider submitting to our summer 2022 issue on "‘Women and other undesirables’: Female Creative and Technical Labour in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" guest edited by Jocelyn Hargrave Jocelyn Hargrave and Megan Peiser @MeganPeiser : ncgsjournal.com/submissions.ht…