From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria

QAQV Since it is February, here’s another annual report marking the anniversary of us getting together as a research group

🎉QAQV Research Group celebrates its 4th anniversary! 🎊

It has been an amazing year!

QAQV9 conference, blog posts, guest lecture, new issue of Folio based on the papers from the third WLM RS 3, and so much more!

Read our anniversary blog post for a full recap!

Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/year4/

Call for Papers: Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR Conference
Friday 26th June 2026
Edge Hill University

For more info and the full CfP see the BARS Blog link⤵️
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6343

WLM 14 In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different ...

📣CFP Only One Week Left!📣

WLM14: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians
🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV &
@bavs-uk.bsky.social

Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media

🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026
Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

If you've been to #QAQV9, you got a glimpse into the revised edition - here's more!

WLM RS 3 Programme A series of one-day interdisciplinary workshops for young scholars - PGRs, PhD students and ECRs, with the same format as a regular WLM

📚Folio A Students' Journal #12 is out now!

This special issue gathers papers from QAQV’s Warsaw Literary Meetings Rising Stars 3, showcasing works of young scholars on Spectres of Gothic Literature across novels, animation, webtoons and more.

Read the issue here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/warsaw-liter...

The Last Witch of Scotland In 1727, an elderly woman named Janet Horne was executed in the Scottish Highlands for the crime of witchcraft. Nearly three centuries later, her story still lingers - fragmented, uncertain, and filte...

New post on the QAQV blog!

Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish explores The Last Witch of Scotland (2023) and the tragic fate of Janet Horne, asking how fiction restores silenced women’s voices and confronts fear, gender, and historical erasure.

👉 Read more here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/thelastwitch...

WLM 14 In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different ...

📣CFP Reminder📣

WLM14: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians
🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV &
@bavs-uk.bsky.social

Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media

🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026
Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

#cfp #victorian #QAQV

What Is the Dance of the Seven Veils Really About? A Look at Oscar Wilde’s Salomé - QAQV text by Konrad Zaręba In 1893, Oscar Wilde composed the one-act drama Salomé, which retells, as its title indicates, the biblical narrative of Salome and the execution of John the Baptist. Because the...

💃 New QAQV Blog Post!

What is the Dance of the Seven Veils really about?
Konrad Zaręba explores Oscar Wilde’s Salomé from biblical roots and decadent aesthetics to myth, orientalism, and its reinvention by suffrage-era performers.

Read the full post here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/danceofthese...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: EHU Nineteen Flash Talks from Postgraduate Researchers. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join us for a Christmassy treat for the latest research from EHU Nineteen's postgraduate researchers!

For our next seminar, the wonderful @digivictorian.bsky.social is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our #19thCFlashTalks.

Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome!

WLM 14 In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different ...

📣 CFP: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians
🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social

Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media — film, games, theatre, comics, VR & more.

🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026
Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

What happens when @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @qaqv.bsky.social join forces?
This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️

Mary Linwood and Her Art Mary Linwood learned her extraordinary needlework skills from her mother at an early age, and she started creating more complex pieces as a teenager. She used a style of embroidery called "needle-pain...

🧵 New QAQV Blog Post!

Discover the brilliance of Mary Linwood, the 18th/19th-century embroideress who transformed needlework into fine art.
A fascinating look at artistry, innovation, and legacy.

👉 Read the post by dr Paweł Rutkowski here:

qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/mary-linwood...

Mud and Stars FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...

📢 Just one day left!

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, 13 November (Thursday) at 7:00 PM CET on Zoom for the next QAQV Lecture!

👉 If you haven’t yet — register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/

📚 Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act

Mud and Stars FORTHCOMING Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times, and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act This lecture explores the legal symbolism of “mud” and “stars,” the two inextricably linked extr...

📚 Join us on Nov 13, 2025 (7 PM CET, Zoom) for Dr. Adrianne Wojcik’s lecture:

“Mud and Stars: Dickens’s Legal Symbolism in Hard Times and the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act.”

Explore how Dickens reimagined Victorian law through literature.

Register here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/for-us/

#QAQV #Dickens

QAQV9 Last month, we were hosting another From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria conference. The theme of QAQV9 was the past which, according to the well-known line by William Faulkner, “is never dead” and is “n...

🏛️ New on the QAQV blog! 🏛️

Our latest blog post by Dr. Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko looks back on three inspiring days of papers, keynotes & conversations during our QAQV9 conference.

👉 Read the full post here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/qaqv9-24-26-...

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Barbara Braid to the QAQV Research Group!

Barbara is based at the Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, where she explores Neo-Victorianism, biofiction, the Gothic, comics & graphic novels, and much more

See more lit.usz.edu.pl/instytut/pra...

✨ Here are some moments from the 9th From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ✨

📚 So many discussions had, presentations heard, and ideas exchanged. 📚

#QAQV9 #AcademicConference

✨ Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath after all the excitement of #QAQV9, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made it what it was!
We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙

🎉The QAQV9 Conference is over — and what a success it was! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone for your amazing contributions. We’re so grateful for this community and can’t wait to see you at the next one! 💙 Your energy and engagement made it unforgettable.

#QAQV9 #Academicconference #Victorian

It's the final countdown🎶

🎤Jerome De Groot
A ‘Maternal Genealogy’ of the Historical Novel from Jane Porter to Louise Erdrich

🎤 Valerie Purton
Reliving the Past: Mourning in Dickens, Tennyson and Queen Victoria

🎤 Mina Gorji
Lyric Listening: Soundings in Romantic Poetry

#QAQV9

🎉 Don't forget about our QAQV9 conference and the amazing keynote speakrs that we host! 🎉

Jerome De Groot 🗓 24 September | 🕙 10:15

Valerie Purton 🗓 25 September | 🕟 16:30

Mina Gorji 🗓 26 September | 🕐 13:00

Venue: Faculty of Modern Languages, Dobra 55, room: 1.110, Warsaw

#conference2025

The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026!

You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period —its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

It’s here!! 🎉 The CfP for the FIFTH ANNE-VERSARY Anne Lister Soc’y Mtg, 3-4 Apr 2026 in Halifax! We seek proposals from scholars & researchers across the Listerverse, on any topic from Anne’s life & times to her afterlives. Due 1 Nov. For more details ➡️ english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…

+ an opportunity for remote participation

Publishing today!

Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social

The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies

Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

Check out our beautiful new website! victorianreview.org

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher The core of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story The Body Snatcher probably derives from an urban legend from the Edinburgh region. It was written in the Scottish village of Pitlochry, where Stevenso...

Ruth Richardson in @thelancet.com discusses how “The Body-Snatcher” shows RL Stevenson’s “acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness… the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie”
#C19th #horror
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Chinoiserie Chinoiserie, the word itself coming from French, refers to the trend of importing paintings, porcelain, clothes and trinkets from China to display them in the houses of the wealthy as luxury items, wh...

Chinoiserie in History, Culture, and at a Conference

In our latest blog post, Dr Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz comments on the #BACS2025 conference and discusses #chinoiserie, both as an element of #Victorian culture, but also as a theme that resonates in the present qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/chinoiserie/