Having been a member of the VPFA for the previous two years, and with a rather sparse entry in the Members’ Directory, I decided it […] Read More
Author: Janine Hatter
Friday, 20th September 2019 Humanities Institute, University College Dublin Keynote: Professor Kathryn Hughes (University of East Anglia) Walking Tour: Victorian Gothic Dublin, followed by dinner […] Read More
CFP Special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal Mapping Victorian Popular Fictions Many popular narratives of the long nineteenth century are spatially articulate, and some […] Read More
‘Three Quiet Days at Gladstone’s Library: Reconnecting with Silence through Research’ Lin Young, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada In February of 2019, I boarded […] Read More
It is our great pleasure to announce that Lin Young is the winner of the VPFA’s 2018-2019 Mary Eliza Root Prize. Lin is a PhD […] Read More
Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel: Spaces, Nations and Empires (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2018) Edited by Barbara Franchi and Elvan Mutlu ISBN: 978-1-5275-0372-4 Pages: 259 Price: £61.99 […] Read More
VPFA and NUI Study Day – Mystery and Medicine: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction Afternoon Panels Keynote 2—Mr Alexander Black, Department […] Read More
We are delighted to announce a series of evening seminars: ‘Victorians at Edge Hill‘
VPFA and NUI Study Day – Mystery and Medicine: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction Morning Panels Sarah Wise, ‘Mr Gilbert’s Weird Psychological […] Read More

Mary Eliza Root Prize VPFA is proud to announce the launch of the ‘Mary Eliza Root Prize’. In memory of his Great-Great-Grandmother, who died in […] Read More