Editors: Elizabeth Fay (U Mass, Boston) & Kate Singer (Mount Holyoke College) The Romantic period in Britain marks a shift in how the body-mind could be experienced, internalized, and theorized…. Read more »
About the prize The Byron Journal is delighted to invite submissions to the new annual essay competition (see below for eligibility) that will be judged by a panel of experts in… Read more »
We are inviting proposals for contributions to an edited book, provisionally titled Literature, Multilingualism, and the Four Nations, 1800-1900, which builds on the work that we started during the AHRC-funded research… Read more »
Cultivating Connections: Research Opportunities at the Royal Horticultural Society Plant Collector Archive Workshop: 10.30-3pm, 12 May 2025. RHS Lindley Library, 80 Vincent Square, London This one-day workshop seeks to raise… Read more »
Building on last autumn’s rehearsed reading of The Tryal and subsequent panel at BSECS 2025, members of the Baillie Working Group are keen to meet again this summer (virtually) to discuss further… Read more »
Romantic Poets in the Wild is back after a bit of a break, ringing in our 2025 series with a Bristol-based poet heavily inspired by what he calls the “RomLitScape.”… Read more »
Book proposals are invited for a series called Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era, published by Anthem Press (http://www.anthempress.com/). Gender and Culture in the Romantic Era is a series… Read more »
‘Play in the Long Nineteenth Century’ Deadline: 18th April 2025 While the long nineteenth century is not immediately associated with playfulness, scholars recognise it as a period that revolutionised play. Games… Read more »
The Jane Austen Society of the UK (registered charity number 1200422 – https://janeaustensociety.org.uk/) will be celebrating this important anniversary in 2025. One of the events which the Society is hosting is… Read more »
The Scarlet Thread of Murder. An Album of Victorian Murderers. Moving from the Newgate Novel tradition at the beginning of the 19th century, through De Quincey’s aesthetic musings on the… Read more »