Dr Amy Waterson

⏰There's still time (but not much!) for your notices to be included in the winter issue of the BAVS Newsletter! Email bavsnews@gmail.com with details of your news/events/cfp/exhibitions/opportunities before Tues 18th Nov.⏰

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📢Tell the BAVS Newsletter team about any Victorianist News, Events, CFPs, Exhibitions, Displays, Opportunities you would like us to shout about in the Winter issue!📢 Send notices to bavsnews@gmail.com

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We're open to pitches for recently published monographs, foundational texts, and other things of Victorianist interest: exhibitions, theatrical productions, digital repositories, archival holdings etc

Becoming a BAVS Newsletter Reviewer is easy!

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Something to add to your summer reading list. The latest issue of the BAVS Newsletter is out now! News, reviews, and all things Victorianist, @ruthannereads.bsky.social and I hope you enjoy. @bavs-uk.bsky.social

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Had a blast presenting my paper alongside the very excellent @janetteleaf.bsky.social and @bgavurin.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social yesterday! Fascinating ideas, a real privilege to hear about their research. Thank you!

Ah, it will be good to see you! Boat is comfortable but neighbours (geese, ducks, swans) are sometimes a bit noisy!

Excited to be in Oxford for BAVS 2025. Even MORE excited to be living my Rosie and Jim best life by staying on a canal boat.

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

General registration for BAVS2025 is now open. Come and join us in Oxford in July and help to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the formation of BAVS.

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

Bookings for the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference are now open! For further information and to book, please visit: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025

Today is your last chance to register attendance for Nineteenth-Century Legacies! Join us for a FREE day of papers and discussion as we consider 19C realisms and the long-lasting implications of nineteenth century thinking:
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📢Today is your last chance to register attendance for Nineteenth-Century Legacies! Join us for a brilliant day of papers and discussion as we consider 19C realisms and the long-lasting implications of nineteenth century thinking. No registration fees.📢
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⏰There's still time to register for Nineteenth-Century Legacies research colloquium! Papers, plenaries, and discussions about realist representation and the continuing implications of 19C thought ⏰Deadline 19th May
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Excited to have Professor Ruth Livesey @llc-rhul.bsky.social and curator Liz Louis from @nationalgalleries.bsky.social presenting plenary panels at Nineteenth-Century Legacies next month! Sure to be a stimulating day of papers and discussion. Register: 19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centuryleg...

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We're aiming to make Nineteenth-Century Legacies as accessible as possible so there are no registration fees but plenty of opportunities for in-person networking and research sharing. Register here for catering reasons! 19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centuryleg...

Nineteenth-Century Legacies, Tuesday 3rd June 2025,
Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham): 19clegacies.wixsite.com/19centuryleg...

Registration is open for Nineteenth-Century Legacies! Please join us for fantastic papers and the opportunity to discuss the continuing implications of nineteenth-century ideas. Registration closes on 19th May, don't delay!

Looking forward to presenting some newish ideas on Ferrier and Eliot at this on 3 June - registration now open for C19 Legacies!

AND LOADS MORE! Email bavsnews@gmail.com to register your interest in becoming a reviewer and arrange for your chosen book to be sent to you. Please do let us know if YOU have a book that you would like us to feature. @bavs-uk.bsky.social

Maybe poetry's your thing? Sarah Parker's 'Form and Modernity in Women's Poetry' which shows that traditional forms played a vital role in shaping mature women poets’ responses to modernity, illuminating debates about form, tradition, and gender in poetry.

THAT'S NOT ALL! Kate Holterhoff's 'Speculation and Darwinian Method in British Romance Fiction' is also available! This book places the interplay between British science and romance fiction into critical perspective and highlights his enduring impact on Western culture.

AND! Daniel Jenkin-Smith's 'The Rise of Office Literature' which explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.

We also have Riley McGuire's 'Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability and Nineteenth-Century Literature'. A literary history of vocal disability in the nineteenth century; this underexamined literary trope helps us to understand vocal hierarchies that still structure our present.

Our list of titles includes (but is not limited to)
Sarah Bilston's 'The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession' (Harvard UP, 2025).
A story of consumer desire, scientific curiosity, and the devastating power of colonial overreach.