Dr Naomi Walker

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After an excellent first day of conference we're really looking forward to our guest authors on Friday: Karen McCarthy Woolf at 18:00 and Sigrid Nunez at 20:00. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/5793w2ch

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Really enjoyed presenting my paper on letters to and from Jane Austen at the @ouliterature.bsky.social online conference today. Thank you to the organisers for such a wonderful event.

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Just 2 days until the conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025. With researchers and writers, heritage industry experts and guest authors @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social and Sigrid Nunez.
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Letters and Literature 1500-2025 at The Open University Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...

I am giving a paper this Thursday (6th November) about letters to and from Jane Austen at this online conference. Please see details and register to attend. There are a wide range of fascinating talks all about letters and literature. digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...

Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out Before the word processor, before White-Out, before Post-It Notes, there were straight pins. Or, at least that's what Jane Austen used to make edits in one of her rare manuscripts. In 2011, Oxford's B...

Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out

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We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!

1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social

More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/

A well organised exhibition on Working Women in Austen’s novels at The Arc. Well worth a visit if you are near Winchester.

Enjoyed visiting 8 College Street, Winchester this weekend - the house where Jane Austen died. A great exhibition and moving literary pilgrimage.

More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected Once central to India’s literary and cultural life, Urdu magazines have disappeared, leaving behind not just a...

Interesting article by Anahita Ahluwalia about the decline of Urdu-language magazines in India, including some great covers.

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Enjoyed attending the Creating Worlds Place Writing conference yesterday in London. Lots to think about! #OUCreatingWorlds

Come see @alixbeeston.bsky.social talk at Edinburgh Napier on ‘Creativity in Motion: Unfinishing Feminist Film and Literary History’? Wed 30 April, 3.30-5pm (plus drinks after). All welcome; online attendance possible (message me).

Colby Prize Lecture Goes Digital – RSVP Join us May 9 for a special digital event: our annual Colby Prize lecture by W. Hamish Fraser, who will discuss his award-winning book.

RSVP’s annual Colby Prize lecture is going digital! Join us for a special #RSVPDigiEvent on May 9 to hear from W. Hamish Fraser on "Nineteenth-Century Scottish Newspapers: The Importance of the Local." As always, this event is free and open to all! #VoicesandVisions
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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

The submission website for the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association's new peer-review journal *Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research* is now online. We welcome submissions of all kinds. Get in touch if you have an idea for a special issue!
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CFP: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (Submission Deadline: 5/30/25) bit.ly/4jOSaWt

Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!

Don't forget to join us this Friday, April 11 to celebrate @pfyfe.bsky.social's new book, Digital Victorians! Registration is still open, and, as always, absolutely free and open to everyone! See you there! #RSVPDigiEvents

Thank you for chairing the panel I was on. It was lovely to meet you.

Thanks @sandradinter.bsky.social for organising such a fantastic conference. I had a great time and learnt a lot.

Having a great time at the Walking Women conference in Hamburg. Enjoyed giving my paper today and listening to all the other interesting papers

Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!

🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

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Getting ready for a nightwalk in Hamburg next week with the wonderful @deeheddon.bsky.social for the 'walking women new perspectives' conference with @sandradinter.bsky.social. Just working on draft layouts for our guide 🌇🚶‍♀️🌌

This is on this week if you’re about in the northwest of England…

Looking forward to it!

Deadline extended: 25th March 2025. Submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.

Really enjoyed attending this OU Teaching and Learning conference in Milton Keynes this week and meeting up with lots of lovely colleagues.

Don't forget to submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. Applications are due this Saturday (15th March)! See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.

CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025) The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…

I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...

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Thanks for all the chapter proposals. We are wading through them at the moment and will get back to you soon.

Looking forward to speaking at this conference in March and hearing all the other fantastic papers.

Proposal deadline is this week!

What George Gissing’s fiction reveals about vegetarianism in Victorian London Amid the rise of vegetarianism in late 19th-century London, George Gissing used meat-free characters to probe themes of poverty, morality and social contradiction.

Amid the rise of vegetarianism in late 19th-century London, George Gissing used meat-free characters to probe themes of poverty, morality and social contradiction.