Spooky Season 👻🧟🎃 is upon us, and VPFA's Third Sex Reading Group are discussing BBCs adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Please send an email to vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com with the title 'FAO: Third Sex' to attend or be added to the mailing list.

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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My journey in Victorian theatre continues this summer, teaching a week-long summer school on the plays of Oscar Wilde at Brasenose College, Oxford, in July. So excited for this! lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/the-...

The Importance of Being Theatrical: Oscar Wilde in Performance

Explore Oscar Wilde’s four major plays as vibrant theatrical works. This course examines their original West End productions (actors, staging, and audiences) revealing how Wilde’s wit and artistry cam...

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Registration for VPFA's Study Day 'The Victorian Short Story: Influence, Innovation and Legacy', is now OPEN. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-victor... For the full programme, abstracts, and links to the short stories discussed, head to: victorianpopularfiction.org/the-victoria...

Registration for VPFA Study Day 'The "Critical Age" in Victorian Popular Literature' is now OPEN! 📍 Online 📅 19th May 2026 🕑 10am-4.30pm (GMT) The study day will also feature a digital humanities workshop with Gale. More info and registration here: victorianpopularfiction.org/the-critical...

A happy afternoon looking up plays by #HenryArthurJones in the Lord Chamberlain's Plays at the British Library. It's surprisingly moving to hold the manuscript of The Silver King, Henry Arthur's first great success, and for many the pinnacle of #Victorian #melodrama.

🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for... Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information

Here are a few of the #BirkbeckVictorianists on tour again, this time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 Conference in Oxford. With @janetteleaf.bsky.social, @helenaesser.bsky.social and @nonfictioness.bsky.social.

Great to see my fellow #BirkbeckVictorianist @helenaesser.bsky.social in action this morning, talking about #Ouida and spy fiction at the @vpfa.bsky.social conference in Birmingham. With fellow panellists Professor Claudia Capancioni and Dr. Alison Dingle.

Just chaired an excellent first panel of #VPFAExtremes with fellow #Birkbeck Victorianists @janetteleaf.bsky.social, Jeremy Newton, & Gordon Bates on Hypnotic Gothic Fictions!

Always great to see @janetteleaf.bsky.social in action. Today's talk at the British Theatre and the 1920s conference at Wilton's Music Hall in London, on three stage adaptations of Richard Marsh's The Beetle. Energetic and illuminating as ever!

Looking forward to this one-day conference at Wilton's Music Hall on Friday 11 July: British Theatre of the 1920s. I'm speaking on the critical reception of English drama of the war. Plenty to say about censorship, propaganda and taste in a time of crisis. www.eventbrite.com/e/one-day-co...

Great to be back in Dorchester this weekend for the Thomas Hardy birthday celebrations. Looking forward to this evening's performance of A Beautiful Thread: Thomas Hardy in Words and Music at St Michael's Church, Stinsford. Tickets are still available at www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/EDGFJL...