Victorian Review

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Hamilton Prize is Katharine Williams (CUNY Graduate Center) for the essay "Missing Members in Charlotte Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family." Congratulations! The essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal.

Apparently "The Son's Veto" was Thomas Hardy's personal favourite of his short stories. Check out Riya Das's blog about it on our website: victorianreview.org?p=2573 Link to the issue, VR 50.2: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

The latest issue is up on Muse! Featuring a forum on reproductive and sexual justice with the Victorians, a cluster of essays on Victorian video games, our Hamilton Prize winner for 2024, and the lovely and talented Aurora Leigh. Plus book reviews as always. Happy reading! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

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Reminder! We are accepting proposals for a forum on Daniel Deronda to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Our forums feature short, op-ed style essays guest-edited by leading scholars. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1. See our website for more details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

Conference Announcement: Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment - cfp and details attached. Victorians scholars please circulate @lindakhughes.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianmasc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social

Daniel Deronda is turning 150 in 2026. Help us observe this milestone by submitting a short, op-ed style essay to an upcoming forum, guest edited by Ilana Blumberg, on George Eliot's world-changing novel. See our blog for details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

Matthew Skwiat's latest post details how the use of melodrama was a crucial part of Carlyle's radical conservativism in The French Revolution (1837).
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Hey grad students! Reminder: the Hamilton Prize deadline is coming up July 1. The winning essay gets publication in Victorian Review and $500 CAD. Visit the website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Found this + outsourcing to companies that employ clearly unqualified/inexperienced/severely overworked human editors a huge problem. One collaborative project I'm involved in has been delayed for months b/c of botched production.

Was joking a bit last week that @victorianreview.bsky.social should promote the fact that a single *experienced human copyeditor who we know* works on every journal issue, but maybe journals/publishers that do that really should promote that as a big advantage of working with them 🤔

Check out Allison Reising's latest post to learn about how Mary Ward represents the influential powers of the mesmerist in Robert Elsmere.
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Hey grad students! The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up July 1! Get your work published in Victorian Review and receive $500 CAD. See website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Check out Ronja Frank's new post to learn how fairies in children's literature disrupted Victorian binaries!
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Check out Daniel Hannah's blog post about his new article on Henry James' In the Cage (1897) and its reflections upon air, contagions, and illness in Victorian Review 50.1. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
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VR 50.1 just dropped! Check out our forum on Victorian studies and climate change, guest-edited by Barbara Leckie. +The Secret Garden! In the Cage! The French Revolution! Mary Barton! Robert Elsmere! Happy reading. muse.jhu.edu/journal/508

This year's Surridge Prize winner is Sarah Scaturro @saruzzza.bsky.social for her essay "'Penitential and Self-Mortifying': Mourning Crape in Fashion" in VR 49.1. It was judged "impressively wide-ranging" with an argument "eminently transportable." Congratulations, Sarah! muse.jhu.edu/issue/51172

Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? Consider submitting it to the Victorian Review’s Hamilton Prize. The winner gets publication in the journal and receives $500 CAD! Submissions are due July 1st, 2025. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Many hands on the VR team are busy proofreading our upcoming issue! How does the climate crisis affect our work? Plus: The Secret Garden! The French Revolution! Robert Elsmere! More! You won't want to miss it.

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An image of the Great Exhibition of 1851 opening ceremony, depicting Victorians gathering in the Crystal Palace in London, surrounded by white statues and swathes of red fabric. A fountain and tree stand in the background, inside the Crystal Palace. Black text on a pink background reads "Exhibiting the Nineteenth Century: VSAWC 2025, May 23-24, Regina, Saskatchewan.

The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is live! Please circulate and send abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇

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Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87 A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.

R.I.P.

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We are pleased to announce that the Hamilton Prize winner for 2024 is Olivia Krauze for the essay "What is a Violent Emotion?" We look forward to publishing Olivia's essay in an upcoming issue. The runner up is Lucy Lawrence for an essay on "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895-97)."

Did P.T. Barnum try to buy Shakespeare's birthplace? Did Charles Dickens stop him? Check out Abby Clayton's blog post to find out! Full article in Victorian Review 49.2:
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Hello! It's nice to see you here. Check out our latest issue, VR 49.2 muse.jhu.edu/issue/53136 and stay tuned for 50.1, coming soon, featuring a forum on Victorian studies and the climate crisis and our 2023 Hamilton Prize winner.

Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? Consider submitting it to the Victorian Review’s Hamilton Prize competition. The winner will have their work published and receive $500 CAD! Submissions are due July 1st, 2024. Details here: victorianreview.org?page_id=358