Sarah Parker

Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

Another Voice Selected Poems and Essays , Alice Meynell, ed. Alex Wong (216pp, Carcanet, £16.99) Out of fashion and out of print, A...

'She [Meynell] deserves to be recognised as a pioneering female voice, rescued from dusty obscurity, and this volume may be the one to begin this process.'
M. C. Caseley for Stride Magazine, on Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell

Read the review:
stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/11/anot...

What a fabulous programme!

Even more time to get Weird with us @lboroenglish.bsky.social in July 2026!

Apologies, Gareth Brookes (with an 'e').

Merged image of Michael Field by Gareth Brooks.

Book cover of Michael Field in Context.

Join us this Thurs (27 Nov), 18.30-20.00 (online and in person) to discuss the future of Michael Field studies and to celebrate the publication of Michael Field in Context. Roundtable featuring @veryverso.bsky.social, Alex Murray and graphic artist Gareth Brooks.
bads.gold.ac.uk/future-fields

Update: Took the newly dubbed 'Radclyffe Ball' to the lecture and somehow conjured a queer rainbow in the process 🌈

Appear to have gone low-key viral with my Hall/Troubridge head, as is only mete and correct. I've now successfully transported it to my office (phew) and it will be shown to the students in their Well of Loneliness lecture today if @drclaireocall.bsky.social allows me to interrupt proceedings...

Honestly, the Hall face looked so much like Wes Streeting for a bit that I was genuinely concerned that I had inadvertently made a Wes Streeting portrait by mistake..!

Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Radclyffe Hall and Lady Una Troubridge rendered in papier-mâché. A masterpiece, I'm sure you will agree.

Amazing achievement Hannah, well done!

Sequel to a Reminiscence The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library

A more detailed article here: www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/Amy-...

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

Omg this is HUGE - *screams, runs to Cambridge* www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link

Volume 58 Issue 2 | Genre | Duke University Press

My article on 'Brigid Brophy's Ethical Aestheticism: Form, Empathy, Reciprocity' is now out in the latest issue of Genre, in a special issue on Aestheticism Now! I'm looking forward to reading all the other articles. You can find the issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...

The cover image of Victoriographies journal volume 15, number 3, 2025, titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. The image of an ornate’V’ is paired with a collage picture that includes an image of Marie Corelli with representations of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, provincial newspaper mastheads, Japanese text, and subtle references to twins.

Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!

CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…

The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!

Obsessed with Michael Field's Musico - he's so cute

The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.

We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…

The Victorian Ghost Story The Victorian Ghost Story

Our own Nick Freeman has contributed a chapter, ‘The Ghost Story 1870-1900’, to The Victorian Ghost Story: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh UP). There’s spooky fun for all the family with Dickens, Kipling, Stoker, and various other practitioners of the ghostly tale ...

Aw, thanks Rachel! Definitely miss having you around!

Hope you can join us in 2026!

An array of quite baffling sculptures

Charlie the library cat

The Sock Man

Here's some weird things you might see in Loughborough: Creepy graffiti

We summon you to wilds of Loughborough, modernists!

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

How funny! Lots of new stuff on in Michael Field in Context too - 35 chapters, no less! I'll keep an eye for anything else; are you working on them? I do hope so!