International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW)

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M. Barnard Eldershaw’s maritime modernism: economies of literary value and the woman writer at sea Interest in global modernisms has been followed by increased attention to connections between modernism and the oceanic world. This paper contributes to growing understanding of how writers from ar...

‘And now here was Gerda, in Mrs Hilary’s bedroom, looking across a gulf of forty years, and saying nothing at all, for she knew it would be no manner of use, since words don’t carry as far as that.’

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She's onto us! Michelle Ravenscroft reveals ‘the “secret” reason' ICVWW were asked to host this year's VPFA Places and Spaces conference.

Experiencing ‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’ The 16th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (organised by the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers)Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK 15-17 …

Today is Yorkshire Day, so come on - let's have it out once and for all! We bring you The Secret Garden, made in Kent... https://www.kent-maps.online/20c/20c-hodgson-burnett-biography/

You heard it here first... https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-57288-3

conference earlier in the week. We did actually fit in some academic papers in between balancing feathers on our noses.

Whatever your reason for coming, hope you've all enjoyed the first day of as much as we have!

If the person next to you on the train is reading this, they may well be coming to . Impress them with your uncanny knowledge of 19C Kent at https://www.kent-maps.online/19c/

If you're coming to next week, feel free to talk to each other on here. We've posted the same thing on twitter And if you're planning to come over the weekend, here are some ideas to keep you entertained. https://www.canterbury.co.uk/

Oh, we made them work all right... Huge thanks to our student helpers for the conference folder-stuffing.

And extra thanks to Daniel, who said hello while walking past - half an later an ICVWW Co-Director (who cannot be named) had got him lost in Canterbury, then allowed him to lug a huge stack of leaflets back to HQ. The Creative Writing anthology was being launched the same day, and he said the cramp in his hands would help him to sign copies without scrawling. We like his style!

We're looking forward to seeing everyone in Canterbury for the VPFA conference - just for clarity, we do have a more up to date map if you need one!

Happy, happy days.
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George Egerton: Terra Incognitas George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence into the milieu of London publishing in 1893 to her dramatic works (both original and in translatio...

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Anyone out there offering scholarships or part-time routes for international candidates? Someone in our network wants to work on Goddesses of Greek mythology in the poetry of 19C English and French women writers.
Email [email protected] if you can help.

Registration for the VPFA conference closes on 8 July. Don't let another Victorianist get your torte... https://victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-conference/

Victorian Popular Fictions volume 6 issue 1 (Spring 2024) Table of Contents ArticlesAdrian S. Wisnicki. The Meaning of Undisciplining the Victorian ClassroomDaný van Dam. Postcolonial (Neo-)Victorianism and the (Digital) Archive: A Response to Adrian S. W…

Membership To join the VPFA, or renew your membership, please complete our membership form:VPFA-Membership-Form 2024-25 (downloads Word document)Full membership is £25 and Student membership is £10. Membershi…

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Birth and Death: Writing the Edges of Life Submit a Manuscript to the Journal Life Writing For a Special Issue on Birth and Death: Writing the Edges of Life Abstract deadline01 August 2024 Manuscript deadline02 February 2025 Special Issue Editor(s) Dr Tamarin Norwood, Loughborough University, UK[email protected] Visit JournalArticles Birth ...

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https://eribia.unicaen.fr/evenement/cfp-we-are-amused-victorian-humour-and-the-digital/

CFP - 'We Are Amused': Victorian Humour and the Digital · ERIBIA - Équipe de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la Grande-Bretagne, l'Irlande et l'Amérique du Nord ‘We Are Amused’: Victorian Humour and the Digital November 7-8 2024, Université Caen Normandie. Confirmed keynote speakers : Pr James Mussell, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures, University of Leeds, UK. Dr […]

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If you HAVEN'T had sight of the May newsletter yet, step this way to see what you've been missing!https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/arts-and-humanities/school-of-humanities/docs/ICVWW-Newsletter-May-2024-Issue-No.22.pdf

Open access to boot!

A Mixed Picture: Media Transfer and Media Competition in Illustrated Periodicals, 1840s-1960s | OMP Ruhr-Universität Bochum From the outset, the illustrated press was fascinated by the anticipation of its retrospective exploration by future historians. Precisely because illustrated magazines aim to depict their present, they serve as «an inexhaustible storehouse for the historian», as Mason Jackson put it in his treati...

Getting distracted by this beautiful thing! Huge congratulations to Bob Henderson, and the students and volunteers who found such inspiration in the archives at CCCU.

Queering The Archive zine available to download now! | Library As we wrap up the Queering The Archive project and Canterbury Pride celebrations start this weekend, we're proud to share with you the final zine! It's available to download now, and you can get your pdf here: DOWNLOAD 'MAKING FRIENDS' ZINE HERE The project has been really fun to work on, meeting ne...

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https://universityenglish.ac.uk/event/victorian-rights-victorian-wrongs/

Online Event: Victorian Rights: Victorian Wrongs We tend to think of the Victorian period in terms of its many ‘wrongs’ – sexual repression, harsh labour conditions, poverty, and empire. Yet the Victorian period was also a time…

Like a bit of fiction with your STEM? It is possible to do both, you know... See link for a new cfp from Paul March-Russell.

cfp | call for papers To mark the 150th issue of Foundation in spring 2025, we would like to include contributions on the topic of sf from 150 years ago, published during the 1870s. Darko Suvin once proposed 1 May 1871 as the starting-point for sf – the day that Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race was published, G...