RSVP Digital Events

RSVP’s Digital Events is pleased to welcome Leslie Howsam who will speak on “Eliza Orme’s Leader-Writing: a Challenge to Periodical Studies” on October 11, 2024 at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. BT / 5 p.m. CET.Leslie Howsam will build on the work of her new book, Eliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London (Open Book, 2024) to discuss Britain’s first woman lawyer in the context of her signed and anonymous contributions to periodicals, especially leading articles in a “Radical” Liberal newspaper. Leslie will draw on the collective expertise of participants to consider […]

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RSVP’s Digital Events committee is delighted to celebrate new books by two long-standing members, staunch supporters, and Board members: Teja Varma Pusapati’s Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880 (Routledge 2024) and Mary Shannon’s Billy Waters is Dancing: Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain (Yale 2024). Exciting New Directions in Periodicals’ Scholarship Teja Pusapati’s book elucidates the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press’: atypical but exemplary women journalists who stormed the male bastions of social and political journal­ism. It draws on extensive archival research to offer fresh insights into the working lives of celebrity writers like Harriet […]

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Join the RSVP Digital Event team for a star-studded book launch of British Writers, Popular Literature and New Media Innovation, 1820-1845 (edited by Alexis Easley) on August 30! Moderated by Alexis Easley, this 90-minute session will showcase the work of various participants in this new EUP volume, which takes up the emergence of a mass reading public during the early decades of the nineteenth century, a period of creative innovation in the popular press. For more details, read the book’s abstract and table of contents. Our speakers include: 

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RSVP’s Digital Events is pleased to inaugurate the first in a recurring series of panel-style presentations (configured to be user-friendly for online consumption and participation) on Friday, August 9! “Class” Periodicals: Contents, Categories, Publics will take up “class” periodicals, a term developed to evade the stamp tax. Our panelists will present short papers that address the emergence of this variety of periodicals and their delineation of “general news”; the characteristics and audience of trade and professional journals of print; and medical journals like the Lancet and its conception of “general news.” Following the presentations, we will have time for robust […]

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Please join the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals’ next Digital Event, a book launch of Periodical Studies Today: Multidisciplinary Analyses (Brill 2022). We will be joined by the editors (Jutta Ernst, Oliver Scheiding, and Dagmar von Hoff) and several contributors who will discuss periodicals as relational artefacts, highlighting editorial constellations, material conditions, translation, design, marketing, and the consumption of newspapers and magazines from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The meeting’s goal is to explore new and multidisciplinary ways to analyze periodicals. Our Participants We will hear from the following editors and contributors to the volume:

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Please join the RSVP Digital Events committee for our next “Pick-A-Periodical” with Clare Stainthorp* leading us on a discussion of the Secular Chronicle (1872–79) Date/time:  17 May at 8am PDT/ 10am CDT/ 11am EDT/ 4pm BST/ 5pm CEST Registration: as always, our events are free but registration is required to receive the zoom link The Secular Chronicle (1872–79), founded by  George H. Reddalls served atheist, agnostic, and freethinking audiences in Victorian Britain. Upon Reddalls’s death in 1875, Harriet Law took over as editor, promising principled atheism, republicanism, socialism, and the expression of her belief in the emancipation of women as fundamental to social progress. In 1877 the Secular Chronicle was notable for being the first freethought periodical to print large-scale front-page illustrations; it is a vital record […]

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