ICVWW

International Centre for Victorian Women Writers. Catchy abbreviations are our forte. Tweeting about all things C19th, views our own.

[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.

[VISIBLEWomenUK @VISIBLEWomenUK]

@TheMatchgirls is a wonderful project. Check out their exhibition if you can, or support at https://t.co/OL9kUmMzfk

[BAVS Postgrads @BAVS_PGs]

Call for Contributions: BAVS Summer Newsletter (Deadline: 27th July 2025)

https://t.co/dUBAGQGgRR

[Jamie Gorrod @jamiegorrod]

Our next speaker in the Science and Imagination panel at #VPFAExtremes is Bridget Morgan, with her paper 'The Rejuvenated Spinster: An Alternative Narrative of Ageing in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future (1918)'

[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

[Jamie Gorrod @jamiegorrod]

On one of our final panels at #VPFAExtremes today – Fairy Tales and Magical Creatures – Silvia Storti is getting us started with '"Proof of Thought and Depth of Feeling": Gender, Power and Empire in Anne Thackeray’s Fairy Tales'

[Michelle D Ravenscroft @mdravenscroft]

A great way to start the @BAVS_UK @BAVS_PGs conference in Oxford next week. See you there! 😊

[VPFA @VPFA1]

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.

[Dr Helena Esser @EsserHelena]

"Ouida" has been selected as the runner-up to the VPFA Second Book Prize 2025! Thank you very much to the lovely scholars who supported this book and for these wonderful, generous reviews! ✨

[Jamie Gorrod @jamiegorrod]

Starting the day at #VPFAExtremes with the ‘Depths of the Sea’ panel, and Joanne Knowles’ (@JoanneKnowlesUK) paper on ‘Improvers, Destroyers and Extremes at the Victorian Seaside’

[ICVWW @ICVWW]

Missing it already!

[The Birmingham & Midland Institute @bmi1854]

We are delighted to welcome the @VPFA1 for day 1 of their 3 day conference "Heights, Depths and Extremes."

#VPFAExtremes #VPFA #bmi1854 #birmingham #victorian

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

Starting the Intertextuality and Adaptation panel, we've got Julia Kuehn joining us online to talk about Marie Carelli's novel The Sorrows of Satan and its stage adaptations #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

Next we have @lucyella13 discussing the decadent transformations of protagonists in Netta Syrett’s novels as they come to epitomise the transgressive extremes of the 'New Movement' #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

And finishing off this panel is @EmilieSLaurent with her exploration of the monstrous extremes of gender in the figure of the castrato in Vernon Lee’s ‘A Wicked Voice’ #VPFAExtremes

[Anna Shane @AnnaS1891]

Victorian discourses about the voice and its changes and diseases were entangled with morality and sexuality, something Lee drew on in her portrayal of the castrato and his monstrous corporality #VPFAExtremes

[Dr Kathryn Ferry @SeasideFerry]

Really looking forward to this! We've got a great line up of speakers and are thrilled to be partnering with @hbap1924 to raise the profile of #seasideheritage. Do come and join us for the day 🌊🏖️

[Historic Buildings & Places @hbap1924]

Seaside towns tell Britain’s coastal story—but how do we ensure they thrive? 🏛️🌊 Join us and @seaside_network on 6 June for expert insights on conservation, regeneration & community-led solutions.

Register now: https://t.co/JrlVvBsrbO

#HistoricCoasts #SeasideHeritage

[ICVWW @ICVWW]

DH project run by ICVWW Co-Director Carolyn and Research Librarian Michelle. Will there be a Victorian angle? Hmm... https://t.co/EvpUsPWZUa https://t.co/ZHGnxn1dnN

[ICVWW @ICVWW]

Thank you Warrington Museum, for sending us your mural featuring Sarah Grand (in the middle)! If anyone wants to see our SG collection, feel free to drop us a line.