Announcing our first session back: we are very lucky to have Professor of Historical & Cultural Geography at UCL, Caroline Bressey, leading discussion on representing Black Victorians. 6pm, Tues 8th Oct, Senate House (room tbc). literarylondonrg.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/rep…

Applications are now open for Newberry Library fellowships for 2025-26. Both long-term and short-term fellowships are available. Here are the details: mailchi.mp/df368812be45/n…

And speaking of the Newberry Library, here’s a delightful essay about its holdings in 19th-c periodicals (especially the comic ones), penned in 1952 by the late and much missed Richard D. Altick: newberry.org/uploads/files/…

Congrats, Vic! Eager to read it.

This meticulously researched study of Dickens’s London by Lee Jackson is full of fascinating details and entertaining anecdotes about the author and the city that inspired him. A delight for urban historians and fans of Dickens. Yale University Press London 📖 theguardian.com/books/ng-inter…

In honor of Nobel Prize Week, please enjoy my favorite tweet of all time

This attack is a chilling reminder of how fragile are some of the online resources that we depend upon the most.

We take word balloons for granted in our comics—but when did they start and why? Find out this and more in our interview with Alex Beringer, the author of a new book on the rise of comic strips in America. bit.ly/4gYz3s5

Periodical scholars Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) take note!

Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik is seeking contributors to the RSVP Bibliography 2020-24. This project is a great way to keep up with new scholarship in our field, and all contributors will be acknowledged in the published work. For more info, visit rs4vp.org/call-for-contr… Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)

Slightly shy about posting this. But I took on Sir Jonathan Bate in the Scotsman this week. I love some of his critical writing, but he’s wrong when he says that state school students have lost the ability to read long books. They just need adaptable, realistic curricula.

Has anyone on here had to get permissions from the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian before?

This magnificent edition is a gift to readers everywhere, and a model of how to create scrupulously researched open-access scholarly resources. We are all in the debt of Paul Lewis and his co-editors.

Terrific article about literary women's networking in 19th-c. Brompton. Esp nice to see so much attention to the role of SC and Anna Maria Hall and their important salon at The Rosery. Also the deft use of Camilla Toulmin's fascinating memoir. doi.org/10.1093/jvcult…

Hathi Trust obligingly lets users create "collections" of its digital texts. Here's one I made entitled "19th-century literary life" that mostly consists of memoirs by authors, contemporary accounts of publishing houses and periodicals, etc. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listi… #victorian

For those in our orbit who may not yet know the news, our own President Priti Joshi has received this year's @NAVSA President's Award for all of her fine work! 🎉We have written up a little summary here: rs4vp.org/congratulation…

Actor Timothy West has died, at 90. Victorianists have particular reason to be grateful for his career, from his memorable turns as Bounderby in Hard Times (1977) and Dedlock in Bleak House (2005) to his magnificent audiobooks of Trollope’s novels.

Oxford University Press will be awarding up to 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-ca…

The indispensable Carlyle Letters Online, guided by Brent Kinser, has found a new home at Western Carolina University: carlyleletters.wcu.edu This magnificent resource features free access to all the letters of the 50-volume Duke-Edinburgh edition completed in 2023. #Victorian