Thank you Clare Horrocks for an amazing #BAVS2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social

Congratulations to Stephanie O’Rourke who receives this year’s BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Book Prize 🥳 @bavs-uk.bsky.social

BAVS 2026 third keynote brings to us the fantastical thanks to nineteenth-century Aladdin pantomimes @bavs-uk.bsky.social

What an amazing rendition of Lincolnshire ballads themed around Tennyson and his Lincolnshire roots #Temnyson2026 @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social

@tennysonsociety.bsky.social celebrates the end of #Tennyson2026 with Lincolnshire folk songs in the Victorian Chapel of @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social

Brilliant time at the @tennysonsociety.bsky.social conference today. Great keynote by Claire Pettitt, excellent panel incl the ace @jimchesh.bsky.social, trip to Bardney Manor and then Tennyson's birthplace at Somersby. Sorry I could only make one day of the conf. Thx @ccapancioni.bsky.social !

This morning #Tennyson 2026 we explore ‘Tennyson Garden: Idylls of the King and the technologization of Nature’ thanks to our keynote speaker, Professor Clare Pettitt 🤩

Professor Erik Gray’s first Keynote, ‘Tennyson’s Tree’ starts our work #Tennyson2026 with the trees’ potential for embodying collective wisdom in Tennyson’s poems.

Tennyson 2026 begins tomorrow and, with the bare, I am pondering if the delegates who are already in Lincoln are not meeting us for a pre-conference drink.

Thank you so much #VPFAPublics. What a fantastic conference and so much to look forward to thanks to @vpfa.bsky.social wonderful community!!!

Our 18th Annual Conference is now over, and some of you may be staving off the post-VPFA conference depression. Not to worry, because we have JUST the cure: Volume 8, issue 1 of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal 🤩💫 Read it online here: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...

Victorian Popular Fictions volume 8 issue 1 (Spring 2026)

Table of Contents ArticlesJulia Kuehn and Diane Eveline van den Brink. The Good, the Bad, and the Popular: The Question of a Popular Canon and Other Methodological ContemplationsLinda K. Hughes. Cr…

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The EA, the Institute of English Studies, & University English are holding an online #emergency summit for all English colleagues to address the proliferation of redundancies, restructurings, other significant challenges to our & cognate disciplines across the sector. 👇🏼 mailchi.mp/1b1ef2d5a8a3...

We're looking for a few volunteers to help promote #RSVP2026! If you are: 1) attending the Dublin conference from 23-25 July, 2) have a Bluesky account, and 3) Are willing to post about panels you attend + your conference experience with hashtags #RSVP2026 or #PrintInMotion, we want you!

Great time at #VPFAPublics this week. And amazing to hear from @ebutler-way.bsky.social, @ccapancioni.bsky.social , & @helenaesser.bsky.social that papers at next year's conference in Aberystwyth will exclusively take place in bathing machines & on funicular railways, as unlikely as that sounds.

Welcome to our new VPFA co-President, Claudia Capancioni! #VPFAPublics

After many ideas and productive conversations, the second day of #VPFAPublics ended with a joyful conference dinner. We are starting with a much awaited keynote first thing tomorrow morning: Tara MacDonald’s ‘Public Institutions, Private Care: Sex Work and Care Work in Victorian Popular Fiction’.

Delightful that as we gear up for #VPFAPublics, the new issue of VPFJ is out, featuring yours truly in some great company! Have I been wanting to write this since my MA? Quite possibly. Alcott, sensation, Genette, Goethe ... What more could you want? doi.org/10.46911/YER... @vpfa.bsky.social

Victorian Popular Fictions 8.1 3 Butler-Way

“The omen never fails”: Appropriating Intertexts in Louisa May Alcott’s A Long Fatal Love ChaseEmma Butler-WayDownload PDF hereAbstractNot seeing publication until 130 years after it was written, L…

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Get to know our Web Manager, Emma Butler-Way ✨ @ebutler-way.bsky.social Here are her answers to our 5 questions: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... Read her blog post about joining VPFA here: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-emm...

A moment to get precious advice before finalising the programme for Tennyson 2026 @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social

"If you could change one common opinion about the English Literature degree or literature in general, what would it be?" In preparation for our symposium (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/englishcre...), we've asked our student panellists the question above. Here's the first of many insights they'll share!

We are thrilled to announce the winner of VPFA's First Book Prize 2025: Rebecca Nesvet, James Malcom Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family! Honourable mentions were Riley McGuire, Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability & Nineteenth-Century Literature and Jay Sullivan, Egyptian Gothic: 1884-1920.

Inspiring annual conference @englishassociation.bsky.social today and an unforgettable chance to celebrate becoming a fellow together with incredible peers on its 120th anniversary.

Immensely proud of the co-edited collection celebrated in this blog @vpfa.bsky.social and thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social victorianpopularfiction.org/we-celebrate...

…We Celebrate the VPFA’s Intellectual Encounters Collected in ‘Re-examining Nineteenth-Century Easts: Gendered Narratives of Encounter’ (2026)

By Claudia Capancioni, with Mariaconcetta Costantini and Julia KuehnThis June we celebrate how, four years ago, the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) hosted its first International Study…

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I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa.bsky.social about my time at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and an amusing snippet from a woman's diary: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-i-s...

In Which…I Spent a Month at Chawton House!

A reflection by Rebecca HamiltonI spent the entire month of August feeling as though I were a character in a Jane Austen’s novel, in the very place Jane Austen wrote all her major novels: Chawton. …

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Registration for BAVS 2026 is now live! We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool in July: bavs.ac.uk/2026-confere...

🔔 Attention ECRs! Just a reminder that March 1 (next Sunday) is the last day to get your applications in for our annual Mitchell Dissertation Prize! Winners receive $1,000 USD + a 2-yr. membership to RSVP. We look forward to reading your work! rs4vp.org/awards/mitch...

Mitchell Prize Submission Guidelines – RSVP

Eligible applicants for the Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize will have successfully defended their dissertation within the previous calendar year (i.e., the 2025 prize winner defended in 2024). Proje...

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Time for more questions and comments for our panel at Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social @jennifletcher.bsky.social

Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating the romance genre as editors, writers, academics and students!

It may be raining in Lincoln but the dragons in the Castle are keeping the fire 🔥 going

Happy Sunday! And Virginia Woolf’s birthday. I love to celebrate the occasion with a few of her essays or entries from her diaries.