Romance, Revolution & Reform

We particularly welcome interest from PhD/MA students and early-career researchers with expertise in nineteenth-century studies. Writing a review with us can be greatexperience for those who haven't published or want to gain more experience. We also try to get a physical review copy for our authors.

📢 RRR Journal is on the hunt for new reviewers!

If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at www.rrrjournal.com/contact or email us!

📢We're recruiting four new postgraduate and two early career researchers! Please visit our website for more information and to submit your application (deadline 23rd February).

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📢 We're on the hunt for new reviewers!

If you'd like to express interest in writing a review of a monograph, conference, exhibition, theatre production, or film to be considered for next year's issue, please fill out the 'call for reviewers' form at

www.rrrjournal.com/contact

Call for Submissions | Romance, Revolution and Reform Submit a paper for the next issue of our interdisciplinary journal.

We are thrilled to announce that the CfS for Issue 9, ‘Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century’ is now live!

Articles should be submitted by 23:59 on 16th April 2026 to rrr@soton.ac.uk.

Do share widely and we look forward to hearing from you!

www.rrrjournal.com/call-for-sub...

A huge thank you to everyone who cane to @rrrjournal.bsky.social ‘s annual conference! We heard fantastic papers that kickstarted conversations about archival method, material culture and sexuality and gender studies.

A huge thank you to @bavs-uk.bsky.social for providing generous event funding!

And a massive thank you to our keynote speaker Dr Michael Shaw (@glaikitscone.bsky.social) who delivered a paper on ‘Queering Scottish Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century’. It was a real treat to learn about Michael’s research in local archives and to reflect on queerness and national idenity

Issue 8: Play in the Long Nineteenth Century Issue 8 of Romance, Revolution and Reform.

It's here!

We are delighted to announce that Issue 8 of the RRR Journal, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, is available to read now at the link below.

We can't wait to hear your thoughts on these brilliant articles!

www.rrrjournal.com/issue/8

It’s the final day of the countdown, before the release of Issue 8 tomorrow!

Let’s celebrate by rereading this excellent article by Eva Lippold: ‘Liberty joined with Peace and Charity’: Elizabeth Inchbald and a Woman’s Place in the Revolution’.

www.rrrjournal.com/issue/3/arti...

Day two of the countdown to Issue 8! Today, let's take a look at this article by Susan Mooney: 'Defending the Indefensible: Morris, Tennyson and Arthur’s Adulterous Queen', examining William Morris’s early poem ‘The Defence of Guenevere’.

Check it out below!
www.rrrjournal.com/issue/5/arti...

Exciting news! Issue 8 of RRR is coming out this Thursday! Let's count down by looking at some articles from the archive.

Let's start with Jemma Stewart's: 'An "Electric Telegraph" of the Heart': A Community of Feeling in the Victorian Language of Flowers.

www.rrrjournal.com/issue/6/arti...

🗓️One month to go until our 8th issue drops and RRR’s annual conference in Stirling!
There are still a few tickets available — something to look forward to after the Christmas break.
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sex-in-the...

What a fabulous programme!

📢 Happy to announce that registration is now OPEN for our conference, 'Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century' (15 Jan. 2026) 📢

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-the...

Provisional Programme here: www.rrrjournal.com/_files/ugd/d...

Please share widely!

Contact | Romance, Revolution and Reform Get in touch if you want to submit an article or review, join our mailing list, or have any other questions about Romance Revolution and Reform.

We are looking for Reviewers for the RRR journal! If you’re interested, please follow the link below and fill in the form to register.

www.rrrjournal.com/contact

📢 Final call to submit your abstracts for our upcoming conference at the University of Stirling this January! You have until midnight tonight! 📑🖋️

The roundtable that led to this special issue is the reason I am doing my PhD in eighteenth-century studies. Thank you, Mona Narain and @zugenia.bsky.social, for being such fantastic mentors. I'm so inspired and grateful to be in community with you, Travis, and Mint!

Beautiful scenes from an opening visit to St John’s library in Cambridge yesterday ahead of #BARS2025 ‘s official start today!

Please share widely! @vpfa.bsky.social @rhul-cvs.bsky.social vs.bsky.social @strathhasspgrs.bsky.social @unistirarchives.bsky.social @artatstirling.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenshistscot.bsky.social @global19c.bsky.social

Please share widely! @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @victstudies.bsky.social @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social @victorianweb.bsky.social @williammorrissocuk.bsky.social @advancesjournal.bsky.social

📢 Just a few weeks left to submit your abstracts for our exciting conference at the University of Stirling in January!

🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept
📩 Email: rrr@soton.ac.uk

We're delighted to announce that the CfP for our 2026 conference @stir.ac.uk, 'Sex in the Long C19', is now LIVE!

We are grateful to have received generous funding from @bavs-uk.bsky.social, allowing us to award travel bursaries to some delegates.

Abstracts due 22 September 2025. Share widely!

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) bit.ly/4krM5PC

PhD thesis submitted!

Becoming Jane on stage: queerness in early twentieth-century Austen bioplays Abstract. Bioadaptation has become a recent trend in Austen media, from Becoming Jane (2007) and Miss Austen Regrets (2008) to the BBC series Miss Austen (

My first article, "Becoming Jane on stage: queerness in early twentieth-century Austen bioplays," has been published and it is open access 🥳🥳

Huge thanks to the editors at Adaptation Journal and peer reviewers who have been a pleasure to work with

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📰 The latest issue of Post Print, the newsletter of @rrrjournal.bsky.social, is out now!

I'm excited to have contributed to the Researcher Insights series, where I share a summary of my PhD research. Check it out:

📖 Read here:

www.rrrjournal.com/_files/ugd/d...

Our Call for Submissions closed on Friday — thank you to everyone who submitted! ✨

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Our penultimate Issue 7 throwback is ‘“Reading Girl” to “Writing Girl”: Erotic Transactions and Philanthropic Reactions in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Mary (1916)’ by Gareth Wenman-James (unisouthampton.bsky.social)

& a reminder that abstracts for Issue 8, ‘Play in Long C19’, are due Friday 18 April!

Call for Submissions | Romance, Revolution and Reform Submit a paper for the next issue of our interdisciplinary journal.

Next up in our Issue 7 countdown is ‘“Body and Soul” — Emotional Labour in Margaret Harkness’ Fin-De-Siècle Fiction and Journalism’ by @rosemaryarcher.bsky.social.

And a reminder that submissions for Issue 8 close next Friday 18 April!

More info available here: www.rrrjournal.com/call-for-sub...