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Jonathan Potter recently finished his PhD at the University of Leicester. He is currently working on a monograph on 19th-century visual technologies and literature. His broader interests include the intersections of literature with the histories of science and technology. He is on twitter. A Box From Another Time: Reading Steampunk Objects […] every antique is beautiful merely because it has survived, and thus become the sign of an earlier life. It is our fraught curiosity about our origins that prompts us

Emma Butcher is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Hull, researching military men and landscapes in the Brontës’ juvenilia. Her thesis covers various themes such as masculine physicality and violence, military-induced trauma and representations of hero worship, whilst simultaneously analysing the impact of the recent Napoleonic Wars on the late-Georgian imagination. Although first and foremost a Brontë scholar, she has also published on sensation fiction, fascinated by the presence of dysfunctional fathers in lesser-known novels of the 1870s.

 The Journal of Victorian Culture inaugurated an essay prize competition in 2007, and our past winners include Louise Lee, Tiffany Watt-Smith, Bob Nicholson, and Tom Scriven whose essays appear in issues 13.1 (2008), 15.1 (2010), 17.3 (2012), and 19.1 (2014).  We are pleased to announce the next competition. The aim of the JVC Essay Prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad. The essay, which must

Sarah Flew (London School of Economics) This post accompanies Sarah Flew’s Journal of Victorian Culture article published (2015). It can be read in full here. Charitable annual reports, in the nineteenth century, listed at great length the names of each annual subscriber and donor and the sum they had given in that accounting year; some subscription lists also gave the accumulated sum given by each philanthropist. Peppered through these lists are a number of individuals who chose to conceal their identity through the

Stephen Basdeo is currently completing his PhD at Leeds Trinity University under the supervision of Prof. Paul Hardwick and Dr. Rosemary Mitchell, and Dr. Alaric Hall at the University of Leeds. His doctoral research examines nineteenth-century literary interpretations of Robin Hood. His main research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century print culture, and the history of crime, in particular the offences of outlawry and highway robbery. Stephen’s webpage can be found at https://leedstrinity.academia.edu/StephenBasdeo and on Twitter as @sbasdeo1. When I was

Amy Holley is a final year PhD student at Swansea University. Her thesis is focused on nineteenth-century stage adaptations of nineteenth-century novels, including Jane Eyre, East Lynne and Lady Audley’s Secret. After finishing, she intends to pursue a career in theatre, film and television adaptation. She is also interested in Dickens, other novels by the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen and Victorian theatre. You can follow her on Twitter @AmyEHolley and read her blogs here http://amyeholley.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is

4th March 7pm to 9pm; doors open at 6:30pm Special price for subscribers to Journal of Victorian Culture £15 (full price £20) Join leading art historians as they discuss the relative merits of the Victorian Masters featured in the exhibition A Victorian Obsession. An entertaining and enlightening evening that will shed light on the collection and its artists; not only as individuals but also as part of a bigger picture. The panel of experts, chaired by art historian Colin Cruise, will take it in turns to present one