Rebecca Hamilton

PhD researcher at the University of Aberdeen looking at narrative silences in multivocal Victorian fiction. I also love cats
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[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

Since I'm plastering it on every other form of social media, I've had my very first article published, so please give it a read :)

[The Journal of Lesbian Studies @JournalLesbian]

Hot Off the Press: “Impossibility of its being deciphered”: Anne Lister, her “crypt hand” diaries, and the contrast between voicing and silencing" by
Rebecca Hamilton
https://t.co/9PpKCA2X7I

@AnneListerSoc @alistersummit @annelisterfan @AnneListerMr @ShibdenHall #annelister

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa1 about my time at @ChawtonHouse as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and highly amusing snippet from a woman's diary, click this link: https://t.co/cOT88PcoDm

[VPFA @VPFA1]

Join us for a Halloween themed tea salon! Brew your favourite blend and engage in a lively evening of discussion, creativity, and Victorian charm. If you are a member, check your emails for event links. If you're not, sign up and you'll be sent all links: https://t.co/4cZlV4JLln

[VPFA @VPFA1]

New Blog post alert- 'Neo-Victorian Gothtober 2025' by Helena Esser. Some spooky neo-Vic gothic films and tv series recommendations for your Halloween watching pleasure! Read here: https://t.co/NfBTz7Og6G

[VPFA @VPFA1]

Sign up to attend the VPFA's Third Sex Reading group's October session on Natasha Pulley's The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a neo-Victorian novel To sign up this month, please email
[email protected] with 'FAO: Third Sex No. 43' and ask to be added to the attendee list

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

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[Siobhan Smith @SMDSmith_]

Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welcome so please share widely (this poster has the correct start time of 5.30pm!) The text and audiobook are available on Internet Archive/Gutenberg.

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

Unfortunately, the other presenters on this panel (Kailey Pire and Rida Leonard) have been unable to attend, so we are now having a Brontë-themed chat instead. Currently wondering, why DID Jane marry Rochester?? #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous in Arthur Machen’s fiction through the theories of German philosopher and theologian Rudolph Otto #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

Now we have @BettyHagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

Shiela Crerar advertises her services in the ‘laying of ghosts’ in the newspaper. ‘Always psychic’, she gets to walk around London watching the events of past ages unfold before her. She finds that there’s quite a demand for her services! #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

And rounding off this panel we have Gregory Brennen talking about the roots of true crime podcasts in Victorian popular fiction, focussing on how Serial (2014) uses the same narrative techniques as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1859-60) #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

The unprecedented popularity of the podcast Serial is closely linked to the producers’ unconscious debt to the seriality, narrative techniques and framing strategies pioneered by Victorian popular fiction #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

Otto’s notion of the demonic helps to explain how Machen uses the numinous to evoke horror. The numinous becomes a site of terror and collapse as characters seek out otherworldly forces through transgressive means #VPFAExtremes

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

Peter wakes up and realises that the time travel is a dream. Smith suggests we can understand the text to be a time travel comedy with a didactic message. It is a text situated somewhere between Dickens and Wells, taking parts from didacticism and science fiction #VPFAExtremes

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

The final paper of the conference is Hayley Smith discussing Thomas Anstey Guthrie's Tourmalin’s Time Cheques as an early time travel narrative #VPFAExtremes

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

To date, Sarah Alexander is the only scholar to pay any critical attention to this novel - so Smith's research is extremely original! #VPFAExtremes

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

Next we have Marijke Vale, who is discussing the fascination with radium's rejuvenating properties that led it to be known as the “elixir of life” #VPFAExtremes

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

In the final science and imagination panel, Adam Baldwin is talking about tales of Venus. In these stories, the contemporary imperial assumption that other worlds are there to be conquered is subverted #VPFAExtremes

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

read the short story here and let us know if you have any thoughts on it: https://t.co/nIJI7gjeMg
#VPFAExtremes

[Rebecca Hamilton @BeccaLHam]

in the @ThirdSexVPFA conference session we were discussing Nebedita Sen's Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island. A very poignant commentary on literal, intellectual, cultural, and literary consumption #VPFAExtremes