Monica Cohen explores the ways in which adaptations of Stevenson’s 'Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' often reproduce features that Richard Mansfield and R.R. Sullivan invented for the story’s first stage appearance in 1887: jvc.oup.com/2026/09/01/s...

In our latest blog, Julian S. Whitney argues that airships in 'Final Fantasy' embrace Victorian steampunk sensibilities. As mechanical marvels of technology and geopolitical expansion, they reveal how the franchise portrays the techno-realities of empire jvc.oup.com/2026/06/30/m...

Announcing the Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Student Essay Prize 2026! Anyone currently registered for a higher research degree or awarded one within 3 years can apply. Deadline October 1st 2026. Details: academic.oup.com/jvc/pages/es... Please share widely! @jofvictculture.bsky.social

Essay Prize

The aim of the prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad. The

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Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking. Check out Stefanie John’s article on the red squirrels of Morris & Co.! link in bio and here: jvc.oup.com/2021/06/03/t... #victorianstudies #victorian #victorianjournal

Yuying Zhang's article on the social expectations of Victorian women illumines the shifting nature of women's roles during the period. Further, Zhang posits that the seemingly separate spheres of labour and domesticity are not so separate as we may believe! Link in bio! #victorianculture

Take a look at Judith Hendra’s article on the domestic hearth in Victorian culture! Hendra draws from Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Frances Hodgson Burnett to illuminate the hearth’s many roles. Link in bio or here: jvc.oup.com/2024/03/01/t... #victorianstudies #journalofvictorianculture

Magic, incantations, and gothic motifs make Anandi Kar’s essay on affect in the medieval ambience of Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” the perfect read in the lead up to Halloween! Check it out here and in our bio: jvc.oup.com/2025/02/19/a... #victorian #victorianculture #victorianliterature

Contribute to the blog! Take a look at the JVC Online blog (jvc.oup.com) to get a feel for previous contributions and our style. You can find our contributor guidelines at: jvc.oup.com/contributor-... #victorianculture #victorianliterature

Victorian novels never go out of Style! In our latest blog post, Amber Alsaigh explores narrative and stylistic parallels between the songwriting of pop phenomenon Taylor Swift, and the novels of Thomas Hardy. jvc.oup.com/2025/10/22/t...

Check out Amber Alsaigh’s insightful research on the implications of Taylor Swift’s lyrics alongside Victorian literature, particularly Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd! Link in bio or here: jvc.oup.com/2025/10/22/t...

Have you ever worn jewelry made from your birthstone? So did Queen Victoria, with her trend-setting emerald engagement ring! Take a look at Samuel Mee’s article on Victorian jewelry here: jvc.oup.com/2025/10/07/v...

The winner of the Donald Gray Prize for best journal essay in the field is Matt Poland’s “Eliot at Yale,” which appeared in George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies 75.2 (co-edited by JVC editor Nancy Henry). The article is free to read until January: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/george-...

Eliot at Yale

Abstract. This article locates the origins of George Eliot scholarship in the archival collecting practices and editorial priorities of Chauncey Brewster Tinker and Gordon Haight at Yale University in...

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Have you ever worn jewelry made from your birthstone? So did Queen Victoria, with her trend-setting emerald engagement ring! Take a look at Samuel Mee’s article on Victorian jewelry here: jvc.oup.com/2025/10/07/v...

🎶From reverent compositions to subversive street ballads🎶 Queen Victoria’s image was contested and co-opted through 19th-century popular song. Learn more about the monarch’s complex cultural after life in music: jvc.oup.com/2021/09/16/m...

Contribute to the blog! Take a look at the JVC Online blog (jvc.oup.com) to get a feel for previous contributions and our style. You can find our contributor guidelines at: jvc.oup.com/contributor-... #victorianculture #victorianliterature

Tennyson Talks start up again next week - we have a great line up of speakers all talks free details below @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @lindakhughes.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social

My short article on the nineteenth-century Bengali poet Toru Dutt's sonnets has been published in the @jofvictculture.bsky.social online. I am deeply grateful for this incredible opportunity. Please find the link to the blog post: jvc.oup.com/2025/09/04/r....

🎶From reverent compositions to subversive street ballads🎶 Queen Victoria’s image was contested and co-opted through 19th-century popular song. Learn more about the monarch’s complex cultural after life in music: jvc.oup.com/2021/09/16/m...

With Mother's Day on the horizon, take a look at this article by Jessica Cox where she connects breast-feeding in Victorian advice books with “Mansplaining.“🤰🏼 Read here: doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...

Breaking in your spring shoes? Have a look at Veronica Isaac's blogpost and these gorgeous satin boots - perhaps a pair of 'padded symmetricals' too! To hear more about these and the fascinating history of C19 music hall culture, read here: jvc.oup.com/2021/04/01/k...

Explore how 19th-c. literature—particularly works by Dickens and George Borrow—offers insight into the itinerant and Romani populations absent from the 1841 British census. Read here: jvc.oup.com/2025/04/14/i... #journalofvictorianculture #VictorianStudies

Alice Perrin’s gothic short story The Biscobra unleashes a creature of myth, science, and empire. A deadly lizard, a reincarnated child, and the collapse of imperial reason. Check out this blog post: jvc.oup.com/2022/06/03/t...

From the Salvation Army’s 19th-century strategies to today’s ethical shopping trends, our choices reflect personal identity & wider societal impact. Check out this blog post: jvc.oup.com/2022/08/22/c...

JVC Essay Prize Winner Sarah Betts, speaking on 'The Afterlife of a Stuart Princess' - to find out more, read her winning (open access) essay here: academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...

🦷In Victorian fiction, false teeth were more than a cosmetic fix—they were a symbol of deception and hidden truths🦷 Learn how Thackeray used dentures to expose characters' secrets here: jvc.oup.com/2022/10/21/f... #journalofvictorianculture #VictorianLiterature #Victorian #19thcentury

👧Utopian child's play🧒H.G. Wells and Edith Nesbit believed play could change the future. Explore how their game manuals critiqued capitalism, nurtured imagination, and shaped a new vision for society: jvc.oup.com/2022/12/02/s...

Deadly decor? Did you know Victorian wallpapers could be deadly? Arsenic-laced pigments were common, and the consequences were tragic. From health risks to even murder, discover how "Arsenic's Golden Age" affected the world of wallpaper💀: jvc.oup.com/2023/12/14/a...

From Dickens to Burnett, the Victorian domestic hearth symbolizes comfort, warmth, and social contrast. Check out this blog post for a deep dive into the complexities of the hearth in 19th-century fiction. It's totally lit...🔥: jvc.oup.com/2024/03/01/t...

Learn more about miniature melodramas and pantomimes and how publishers like William West bridged the gap between London's grand theatres and these juvenile performances🎭✨ Read here: jvc.oup.com/2020/02/07/t... #TheatreHistory #19thCentury #journalofvictorianculture

From tales of madness and mistreatment to shocking crimes, explore how the British press shaped perceptions of vagrants. Read more here: jvc.oup.com/2020/02/14/m... #journalofvictorianculture #19thcentury #victorian