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.

23 December 2008: The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century will be published by Palgrave. This is a collection of essays largely drawn together from the 2004 RSVP Annual Conference held at the University of Gent. The book is edited by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor and features contributions from a number of members.

8 December 2008: The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (DNCJ) has been launched. Edited by Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, this reference work contains over 1000 pages of entries on people, publications, and principle aspects of the nineteenth-century press. It features contributions from many of our members and is sure to be an invaluable resource for periodical studies. DNCJ is published by Academia Press and the British Libaray, and will be incorporated within Proquest's C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. There is a website for DNCJ here and you can download the cover by clicking here (pdf 636kb).

16 November 2008: Andrew King is digitizing the Victorian Fiction Research Guides. These provide bibliographical finding aids for a range of nineteenth-century printed material, including periodicals such as the London Journal, Illustrated London News, the Graphic, and the Idler.

7 November 2008: Andrew Hobbs has organized a postgraduate conference, Place in Print, Print in Place: English local and regional newspapers 1800-1925, to be held at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK on 4 December, 9.30am-5.30pm. The day features a keynote paper, 'Reading 19th-century journalism ? some issues of historiography and research method', from Aled Jones. Other papers include Ria Snowdon (University of Newcastle on Tyne) 'Georgian women as provincial press proprietors: their legacy and impact', Alison Toplis (University of Wolverhampton), 'Analysing provincial newspapers as a source for non-elite clothes retailing in the first half of the nineteenth century', Andrew Hobbs (University of Central Lancashire), 'When the local press was a national press (1855-c.1900)', Mary Lester (Institute for Historical Research), 'Local newspapers and local identity formation in the London boroughs of West Ham and Hackney (c. 1885?1925)', Alex Jackson (Leeds Metropolitan University), ‘"The young man’s bible and sermon": The Edwardian sports special as a consumer product and as a historical source', Fred Milton (University of Newcastle on Tyne), 'The "Children's Corner": A survey of the development of children's columns in the provincial press 1873-1914'. The respondent is Annemarie McAllister (University of Central Lancashire).

 

13 May 2008: The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) has been launched. Click here to access a free, online digital edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers with advanced searching and browsing. Titles included are the Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833); Northern Star (1837-1852, includes supplementary portraits); Leader (1850-1860); English Woman's Journal (1858-1864); Tomahawk (1867-1870); and Publishers' Circular (1880-1890).

1 July 2007: Jim Mussell has published Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: Movable Types. This book explores the relationship between the periodical press and time and space, and discusses periodicals such as the Strand Magazine, Chemical News, Knowledge, Journal of the Chemical Society, English Mechanic and many others. For further details see the Ashgate website.

30 November 2004: Encounters in the Victorian Press: Editors, Authors, Readers has been published. This book, edited by Laurel Brake and Julie F. Codell, contains essays selected, updated and expanded from papers presented at the 2000 RSVP London conference. For further details see the Palgrave website.

 
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 to request the password. Kindly use the subject line "RSVP password."

In addition to the online directory, a printer-friendly text version is provided for member convenience. 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 2008-9
We'd like to extend a welcome to the following new or returning members who joined in 2008-2009:
  • Geraldine Beare
  • Andrew Hobbs
  • Jonathan Cutmore
  • Koenraad Claes
  • Jennifer Scott
  • Meri-Jane Rochelson

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.
 
 
Home • About • Contact • Constitution • VPR • Conferences • Join • Bibliography • Awards • Members • Links
Last updated 26 November 2008. Report broken links to webmaster @ rs4vp.org.