Jan Schroeder

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 🤔

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!
Blog post: victorianreview.org?p=2199
Full article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Full issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558

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
Post: victorianreview.org?p=2205
Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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

This will be good. If you're in Ottawa, join us!

🥁 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

YouTube video by Carleton Arts and Social Sciences Carleton University Arts and Social Sciences — Student Stories

Student Stories from the Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University, a series ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP5t...

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.

@janschrayder.bsky.social

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 👇

vsawc.org/events/

[redoing this b/c my original post contained a wrong date!]

Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!

Questions to Ask Yourself Before Giving Up A poem about self care by Kaitlyn Boulding

In case anyone else needs this today

This is my morning games routine: Wordle, Framed, Quordle, Connections, Strands, Tightrope, Crossword Mini. It has to be in that order, with tea. After work is Octordle and Blossom. Late night is Waffle if I feel like it.

Opened a Twitter account years ago but kept forgetting to use it. Then it got gross and I was kind of glad I hadn't relied on it much. I still find Facebook useful for trading used jigsaw puzzles with my immediate neighbours and posting Wordle scores.

Happy that my article "Living on Pea-nuts: Gissing, Fiction, Subsistence" is out in Novel!

I'm one year too young to qualify for my university's Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program and it's a limited one-time offer! Not sure what emoji to use

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.

Rest well, brilliant woman. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

tea with shortbread or tea with biscotti?

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)."

Screenshot of a call for a job as a two-year research fellow doing work for a project on the Victorian hand. Click link for full job ad in machine-readable form.

Fascinating job alert for Victorianistb (UK-based) hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

I started watching Disclaimer last night. So far so good but Sacha Baron Cohen in a dramatic role is so disorienting.

I finished a Virginia Woolf puzzle the other day, same need ... "the killing machine has a gender"

Reminder to tell all of your friends about this rally on Sunday!

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:
victorianreview.org?cat=217

I deactivated today but I didn't go there much anyway. I kept forgetting, then it turned ugly. I admin another account and we just put up a post telling people to follow us here and we'll leave it up for now.

I will try to remember to come here and post interesting things. I was a failure at Twitter, maybe I'll do better here.