Romance, Revolution & Reform

What a fabulous programme!

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

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📢 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!

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📢 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:

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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...

Continuing our Issue 7 throwback this week…

Next, we have ‘“[I]f your stumps had only been a trifle shorter”: The Exploitation of the Stare and Nautical Performance in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor’ by Megan McLennan (@westernu.bsky.social)

Deadline for Issue 8 CfP: 18 April!

@rrrjournal.bsky.social is searching for 2 reviewers for our next issue. Reviews are 800-1500 words long, on any area of the nineteenth century (arts and humanities + social sciences). We always try to provide a physical reviewers copy or tickets for exhibitions/performances.

Illustration to Villette--showing a young woman in 19th century dress, swept by the wind, in front of the double door of an imposing building; the words "Pensionnat de Demoiselles" carved above the doorway.

Just finished rereading Charlotte Brontë's Villette, & this time round, its ending strikes me as one of the most romantic ever, maybe b/c I inhabit an age of hiring freezes & academic precarity.
M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach.
Swoon! #19thc

Up next in our Issue 7 countdown is 'Gendered Dehumanisation; Labour, Oppression, and Resistance of the Enslaved Women of Colour of Saint- Domingue in the Long Nineteenth Century' by Calyx Palmer (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social). Read now on RRR website!

Abstract for Issue 8 due 18 April 2025! /2

Less than a month to go now until the deadline for abstracts for Issue 8 on 18 April! 📢

Join us as we reflect this week and next on Issue 7…

Up first is ‘“A Perfect Republic”: Labour, Landscape, and Property in Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes’ by Cal Sutherland (@uoe-llc.bsky.social) /1

So excited to work with you all!

We are delighted to announce the most recent additions to the RRR editorial board.

A very warm welcome to our 4 new PGR Editors: @bethstewart.bsky.social, Megha Mazumdar, Jessica McLennan, and Fabia Buescher - we look forward to working with you all!

📣Exciting news! ✨ Romance, Revolution & Reform is now on Bluesky! Follow us to stay updated on journal news, opportunities, and all things nineteenth-century literature and culture.

An excellent opportunity here for our ECR followers working in C19 studies:

We’re over halfway through the Call for Submissions for Issue 8, Play in the Long Nineteenth Century!

📅 Deadline: 18th April
🔗https://www.rrrjournal.com/call-for-submissions