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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria
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a research group based at the University of Warsaw | literature and culture of the 18th &19th centuries and contemporary rewritings of those periods |
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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social · 10h
📣 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/
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 ...
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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!
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!
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December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
qaqv.bsky.social
📣 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/
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 ...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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 ⤴️
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🧵 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:

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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...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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📢 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...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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📚 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
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...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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🏛️ 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-...
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...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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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...
October 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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✨ 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
October 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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✨ 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! 💙
September 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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🎉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
September 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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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
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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🎉 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
September 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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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
September 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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drbibliomane.bsky.social
#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 📚.
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?
September 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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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…
September 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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+ an opportunity for remote participation
September 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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manchesterup.bsky.social
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/
September 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Check out our beautiful new website! victorianreview.org
Victorian Review – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies
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September 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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michaeljsullivan.bsky.social Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 8
Much looking forward to speaking in the Tennyson Talks Zoom series on 2 October: ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Tennyson’s Texts’. Joining details via the poster @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
Poster of the Tennyson Talks 4th Series indicating that events are at 7.30pm London time on the first Thursday of each month, held via Zoom. Joining details can be obtained from Professor Valerie Purton.
September 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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
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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...
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September 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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/
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...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Our Agnieszka also wrote about her some time ago👇
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September 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Join us at virtual @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a Jane Austen Book Club event with @devoney.bsky.social to celebrate her new book, 'Wild for Austen'.
You may have thought Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest.
Tickets here: chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl... #booksky
Online Talk: Devoney Looser, Wild for Austen - Chawton House
The first of a series of digital events for our Jane Austen Book Club with Devoney Looser, author of Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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We’re excited to share the full schedule for #QAQV9 “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” conference ⤵
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September 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM