Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States.
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Pregnancy & Childbirth on the Victorian Web: our virtual launch is tomorrow, June 20. Mini-presentations on Victorian breastfeeding, maternity dress, embryology, medical advice manuals, anatomical models, and miscarriage. Pls RSVP for a Zoom link as indicated below.
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Don't forget, we're kicking off our June with Richard Altick's *Shows of London* and its relation to media history...*checks diary*...next week! Join us 9 June for our next #RSVPDigEv where we discuss the above with the scintillating @mattpoland: rs4vp.org/come-discuss-altic…
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Dear friends, sad news—George Landow, Founder & former Ed-in-Chief of our pioneering website, passed away on 31 May after a long illness. He left the website as a foundation with an editorial board—a wonderful & lasting legacy. Donations in his memory at victorianweb.org/
ALT Photo of George smiling. He was such a warm-hearted person and so much fun, as well as a great scholar. We're lucky to have had his friendship and guidance over many years. We'll treasure his inspiration.
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#OTD 1868, #Manchester suffrage society holds pubic meeting at which, for the first time, women were among the speakers” Here we go! victorianweb.org/gender/vote…
ALT Cartoon showing a woman putting a big dunce's cap over a shrinking man!
ALT Smiling women in rather elaborate nats talking to some bemused or amused working men.
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On 18 October, Mary Barton was published in two volumes to critical acclaim. Elizabeth received £100 (about £12000 today). 1848 was an enormously important year for Elizabeth Gaskell. But what else was happening that year? ow.ly/VXMs50NuKtm
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A view of one of the incredible eight rooms of ‘The Rossettis’ exhibition, opening at @Tate today.
This gallery focusses on the artistic collaboration and personal relationship between Siddal and Rossetti. Seeing their artwork in conversation next to each other is wonderful.
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It gives us great pleasure to circulate the CFP for the inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, to be held in Durham in 10-12 July 2024. All proposals are due on 1 September 2023
CFP below:
in-csa.com/call-for-papers/
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Male impersonator Hetty King was #BOTD in 1883. Her signature song was "Ship Ahoy! (All The Nice Girls Love A Sailor)" which she first introduced at the Liverpool Empire in 1908. She is immortalised in a long list of #musichall stars in the opening lines of Novello's "Vitality".
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The Popular Culture Summer Research Institute is back! A select group of researchers will be given the opportunity to work directly with the nationally recognized @BGSU_PopCultLib archive. Find more info and apply here: bit.ly/3xMaWHW #BGSU #BGSULibraries
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Happy Birthday to polymath, May Morris: designer of wallpaper, jewellery, textiles, stained glass and many other arts and crafts. She was also an embroiderer, author, editor, lecturer, artist, feminist, socialist and business woman. #OTD #MayMorris
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Alessandro Cabiati opens @DecadentStudies conference with their keynote, ‘Marvellous Abnormalities’.
Q from @JaneDesmarais - might fairytales be a good place to find decadent children in literature, who are otherwise almost absent from decadent fiction?
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Registration for VSAWC 2023 is now open! We can't wait to gather in Winnipeg this May and celebrate the ongoing success of VSAWC and the Victorian Review. Register on the conference website today: vsawc2023.ca
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Original manuscript of Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, vol. 7, 1855-1857 collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O…
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Did you know that program officers from @NEH_Education can discuss your project ideas, or even read drafts before you submit them? Find @PatrickCFleming at #MLA23 #MLA2023 to learn more @MLAnews
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Event: Victorian Promises: The Promise of the Cosmos (01/27/23) – Zoom Series: bit.ly/3jSM3Xq
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The Parsonage Room by Room: The YouTube channel Memory Seekers recently uploaded a video with a twenty minutes room by room tour of the Brontë Parsonage Museum:This time we take a tour of the Brontë Sisters House, the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth, West… dlvr.it/SdNSgq
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Thrilled to be launching our new section of the Victorian Web on Pregnancy and Childbirth! All are warmly invited to the launch events! @vsawc @VISAWUS @BAVS_UK @craftyvictorian @UVicLib @UVicHumanities @UVicEnglish @UVicHistory @navsa
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Don’t be haunted by regret! Propose a paper or panel for VSAWC 2023! vsawc.org/events
ALT Stereoscopic ghost photograph from the Victorian era.
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It’s the 50th anniversary of both VSAWC and Victorian Review. Submit a proposal to Victorian Making /Making Victorians and join us to celebrate five fantastic decades for nineteenth-century studies in Canada. vsawc.org/events/
ALT Detail of a cake in a Mrs. Beeton cookery book.
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I am so delighted that The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes will feature colour plates from the album itself. This page includes some of the earliest cottons in the diary worn by Anne & her mother in the #1830s, before Anne’s marriage to Adam @ChattoBooks @vintagebooks
ALT Scan of a pale blue page with five swatches of brightly printed cotton in different shades and patterns all from the 1830s. Above each piece is the tiny inked caption written by Anne Sykes