Member News

RSVP welcomes news of member publications, conference presentations, and scholarly service which pertain to Victorian periodicals. Kindly send along a blurb to the webmaster at webmaster @ rs4vp.org, and we'll announce it in this space.

26 July 2010: Clare Horrocks announces a call for papers for 'Selling Culture?: Cultural Identities in the Victorian Periodical Press' to be held at Liverpool John Moores University on 20-21 November 2010. Proposals (250-300 words) to C.L.Horrocks @ ljmu.ac.uk by Friday 16 September 2010. The full cfp is here.

19 April 2010: There is a day conference at the British Library on the 20 July 2010 entitled 'Digitised History: newspapers and their impact on research into 18th and 19th century Britain'. Laurel Brake, Patrick Leary, Jim Mussell and Simon Potter are all speaking. Click here for further details.

31 March 2010: 'W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference of a Newspaper Revolutionary' will be held at the British Library on 16 and 17 April 2012. The organizers ask for preliminary expressions of interest by the end of JUly 2010. Click here for further details and the cfp.

25 November 2009: Brian Maidment has recently returned from a workshop in Heidelburg on Punch as a transcultural phenomenon. You can read his report on this workshop by clicking here.

[For older announcements see the news archive]

 

Member Directory

RSVP's Membership Directory is available to members through this web site. In order to ensure the safety of members' personal data, the directory is password-protected.

In order to obtain a password, please email webmaster @ rs4vp.org. Kindly use the subject line "RSVP password."

The Member Directory is available as a spreadsheet or as a pdf document for printing. RSVP members are encouraged to update their contact information so that Society mailings and Victorian Periodicals Review will reach them in a timely way.


New Members for 2010

We'd like to extend a welcome to the following new or returning members who joined since January 2010:
  • Patricia de Montfort
  • Simon Machin
  • Susan Oliver
  • Rob Breton
  • Fintan Cullen
  • Anne DeWitt
  • Michelle Elleray
  • Stefania Forlini
  • Maria Frawley
  • Clare Horrocks
  • Brett Kolles
  • Marie Leger-St-Jean
  • Kirsten MacLeod
  • Jessica Valdez
  • Minna Vuohelainen

 

RSVP Contributions

RSVP members have contributed to scholarship in several ways, including:

Various digital resources such as:

And items in:
  • British literary magazines
  • the Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States and Canada;
  • the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies;
  • Victorian Periodicals: A Guide to Research. Vol. 1 (1978) & Vol. 2 (1989);
  • The Nineteenth-Century Press in Britain: A Bibliography of Modern Studies, 1901-1971;
  • The Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press in Britain: A Bibliography of Modern Studies, 1972-1987;
  • three supplements to Victorian Periodicals Review: Women and British Periodicals 1832-1867;
  • many literary encyclopedia entries on Victorian publishers; and
  • entries on publishers and editors for the New Dictionary of National Biography;
among others.
 
 
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