All Things Blogging

We’ve been really excited by the level and range of blogs that formed May’s bloggers fair, which ended with Lucie being invited to chair the ‘Transforming Objects’ conference roundtable on this subject. A summary of the round table can be found here. We would like to thank everyone that participated and we hoped you enjoyed discovering what was out there! You can now download, through IFirst, two articles by Amber J. Regis (Early Career Victorianists and Social Media) and Rohan Maitzen (Scholarship 2.0) that also consider the way

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Bloggers Fair: Lucy E. Williams and her ‘Wayward Women’

WaywardWomen is a new weekly blog I started writing in April 2012. Posts are all derived from my PhD research into the lives of Victorian England’s Female offenders, in which I examine the who, what, and why of crime in two Victorian cities – Liverpool and London. I examine the life narratives of female offenders in Victorian England, roughly between the periods 1830 – 1911, and assert that to fully understand the relationship between women and crime in Victorian England,

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Bloggers Fair: Louisa Yates ‘Neo-Victorian Thought’ blog

Having completed a thesis on neo-Victorian fiction – specifically, the three neo-Victorian novels of Sarah Waters – I am left with a hopeless and seemingly ineradicable ‘gift’: identifying the many and varied ways in which Victorians and Victoriana reveal themselves within contemporary culture. Many of these moments are fleeting, transient, or otherwise unsuited to extended academic examination (at this point in time, at least). They are, however, often entertaining, inspiring, and eminently suitable for life outside the academy; as the

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Bloggers Fair: Charlotte E. Mathieson’s research and teaching blogs

My Research Blog draws together reflections, reviews and discussion relating to my research on travel and place in mid-19th century literature. I write about recent reading, events and talks I’ve attended, and ideas that I’ve been working on in my research, as well as reflecting on contemporary cultural news and events relating to the Victorian period – the Dickens bicentenary has provided a lot of material this year, but I also write about film adaptations, radio and tv series, and

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