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 student at Queen’s University, and is studying the relationship between ghosts and objecthood in Victorian fiction.She is particularly interested in texts by Hudson Tuttle, E.W. Allen, William H. Harrison, and […]
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 How did Victorian travellers define and challenge the notion of Empire? How did the multiple forms of Victorian travel literature, such as fiction, travel accounts, newspapers, and poetry, shape perceptions […]
VPFA and NUI Study Day – Mystery and Medicine: The Dark Side of Science in Victorian Fiction Afternoon Panels Keynote 2—Mr Alexander Black, Department of Anatomy, NUI Galway ‘The Early Years of Anatomy in Galway’ After lunch, conference attendees gathered at the appointed time to be escorted to NUI Galway’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre. It […]
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 Novel’: Shirley Hall Asylum and Victorian states of mind (RD) Sarah Wise’s opening keynote focused on Shirley Hall Asylum: Or the Memoirs of a Monomaniac, written by William Gilbert and […]
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 a Hoxton workhouse, Professor John Spiers has generously gifted VPFA with £100 each year, for the next five years. With this money, VPFA is going to sponsor one of our […]
I am pleased to announce the release of an audio production of Arthur Hugh Clough’s Amours de Voyage. It is freely available and may be streamed or downloaded from the Internet Archive or streamed on Soundcloud: https://archive.org/details/amoursdevoyage_clough_TOS_201706 https://soundcloud.com/voicesoftoday/sets/amours-de-voyage Erin Louttit is an independent scholar with research interests in the long nineteenth century, […]
In the following post, Annachiara Cozzi, Matthew Crofts, Alina Ghimpu-Hague, and Charlotte Wadoux give their thoughts on the three panels and the roundtable discussion from the recent VPFA Study Day, Victorian Popular Collaborations (22 May 2017). Nickianne Moody and Joanne Knowles will follow this with a more summative post that will incorporate a discussion of […]
The J. M. Barrie Literary Society is officially launched! And for those who missed the birthday party at Kirriemuir on 9th May, a second event will be welcoming all at Senate House, London, 19th June at 5pm. See the website or Facebook page for more details, or contact jmbarriesociety@gmail.com. Barrie is too often lost in […]
Victorian Popular Fiction Association Blog VPFA is adding a blog to the website so we can continue discussions we begin at conferences and study days. We’d like this blog to be useful for members’ research and interesting to members of the public who are interested in Victorian popular fiction. In the spirit of making this […]