Gareth Reeves is a final year PhD candidate in the English department at Durham University. His research explores the value of self-education in fin-de-siècle London, chiefly in the novels of George Gissing. He […]
We’ve managed to keep the costs as low as possible, thanks to the support of various sponsors, not least of all the BAVS executive committee, Dundee’s Centre for Scottish Culture, […]
Harriet Thompson is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate in the English department at King’s College London. Her doctoral thesis explores depictions of telegraph operators in late nineteenth-century British and American literature. […]
New production of Jane Clegg, St John Ervine’s 1913 drama of family, currently on at the Finborough Theatre till 18 May. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/26/jane-clegg-review-forgotten-suffrage-era-gem-shines-again FLASH SALE. We’ve a limited number of £12 […]
Durham University, 13-14 September 2019 This two-day conference will explore the role of satire and humour in the Romantic period (as well as its influences and legacies in the eighteenth […]
15 June 2019 This is a call for abstracts of 20-minute papers on the work of Lucas Malet to be presented at a summer symposium in Eversley, Hampshire. Organised in […]
Deadline for submissions: 1st February 2020 The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The essay competition […]
Peter Halton is a second year PhD candidate in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. He researches late-nineteenth century socialist political thought, focusing primarily on William Morris. He can […]
