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2015 VanArsdel Award – Winner Announced

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce the winner of the 2015 VanArsdel Award: Claire Furlong, a doctoral student at the University of Exeter. Her essay, “Health Advice in Popular Periodicals: Reynolds’s Miscellany, the Family Herald, and Their Correspondents,” will appear in the Spring 2016 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. We offer her our warmest congratulations!   The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The award was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of RSVP whose groundbreaking research continues to inspire generations of researchers.   For more information about the […]

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Workshop Report: Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals, University of Oxford, 30 May 2015

The workshop ‘Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals’ was held on 30 May 2015 and co-organized by the ERC-funded ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ Project and the AHRC-funded ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’ Project, both based at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. The aim of the event was to facilitate conversation about the use of medical and health periodicals in historical and literary research, a resource which has been central not only to the work of the aforementioned projects, but also to that of many other scholars interested in various aspects of nineteenth-century history and literature. The programme was interdisciplinary, trans-institutional, bringing together […]

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In Memoriam: Linda Peterson

Linda H. Peterson, born on October 11, 1948, died peacefully June 25, 2015, on the campus of Yale University, where she was a professor and former chair in the Department of English.  Until days before her death, which ended a multi-year battle against cancer, few friends knew the seriousness of her illness, for she had decided that she wished to focus on the pleasures of her work as an active scholar, finishing her latest book, and as a contributor to university life, which she was, during her 38 years on the faculty.  Her books include Victorian Autobiography (1986), Traditions of […]

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Postgraduate Research Blog Launch

We are delighted to announce the launch of our postgraduate research blog. The Research blog area is a space for our postgraduate students to showcase their research projects and for the wider RSVP community to read and enjoy! Each post will include the contact details of our featured writer. We encourage you to get in touch with them for further discussion of the topics raised. Our inaugural post comes from Ann M. Hale (University of Greenwich) and is entitled ‘On Serendipity.’ You can read it here. If you would like to write a blog post for the website please contact […]

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‘On Serendipity’ by Ann M. Hale (University of Greenwich)

  Ann M. Hale is a PhD candidate at the University of Greenwich. Her research focuses on the relationship between nineteenth-century legal periodicals and the development and consolidation of professional identity. She was awarded the 2014 Rosemary VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. Her prize-winning essay, ‘W.T. Stead and Participatory Reader Networks,’ appeared in the Spring 2015 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Hale and Dr. Shannon R. Smith are co-editing a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review (Winter 2016) entitled ‘Victorian Periodicals: Moments of Challenge and Change.’ You can get in touch with […]

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