| I'm not sure I strictly consider myself a Victorianist - my real field of interest is the early twentieth century: but it's impossible to think about sex after 1900 without giving quite a lot of attention to 'Victorianism', both as an enduring force and something to be reacted against. |
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 Victorian sex factoids: some much-reiterated canards |
Victorian Psychiatry: some suggestions for reading |
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| 'The Other in the Mirror: Sex, Victorians and
Historians' a piece in progress about problems
and stereotypes in thinking about Victorian
sexuality now with expanded bibliography |
'The Great Scourge': Syphilis as a medical problem and moral metaphor, 1880-1916 A paper written for and given at a Courtauld Institute Symposium, 23 May 1998: Le Grand Mort. Twentieth Century Bodies, Sexuality, Death and Degeneracy, and unlikely to appear anywhere in exactly this form. |
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My publications, and reviews and recommended reading of particularly Victorian relevance.
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Because so many people still ask the question, are there any papers of/where are the papers of
The National Register of Archives and ARCHON:
essential first resort to find out where UK archives are held.
Two useful subject gateway sites: Genesis: developing access to women's history sources in the British Isles, and Mundus: missionary-related research resources (UK).
Victorian medicine and health: some suggestions of sources at the Wellcome Library
Portcullis, gateway to the archives of Parliament
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Victoria Research Web: a plethora of resources for the Victorianist, including the archives of the VICTORIA e-list
British Association for Victorian Studies
Australasian Victorian Studies Association
Victorians Institute & Journal
The Victorian Turkish Bath
Malcolm Shifrin's information exchange
and now
Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Victorian Women Writers Project
Online, and highly accurate, transcriptions of works by British women writers of the 19th century, including anthologies, novels, political pamphlets, religious tracts, children's books, and volumes of poetry and verse drama. A wonderful source for hard-to-find texts.
The Victorian Dictionary
a guide to the social history of Victorian London
with the in-progress list of Top Victorians
THE OSCHOLARS:
An Electronic Journal for the Exchange of Information on Current Research, Publications and Productions concerning Oscar Wilde and his Circle: and several other online journals and websites of fin de siecle interest
Special edition devoted to the homoerotic novel Teleny
Monuments and Dust: The Culture of Victorian London
'the work of an international group of scholars now assembling a complex visual, textual, and statistical representation of Victorian London--the largest city of the nineteenth-century world and its first urban metropolis'
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
NINES: Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
NCSE: nineteenth-century serials edition:
getting Victorian newspapers and periodicals online
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
'a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture'
North American Victorian Studies Association and their blog.
19 - Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: online journal
Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA)
Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
Victorian Working-Class Women Poets Archive
At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901
Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN)
Planet Century 19
'a meta-blog that collects contents of select 19th century blogs. It is maintained by Kelly Searsmith, Ph.D.'
Bruce Rosen's idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history
Victorian Shrines: museums dedicated to Victorians
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
'Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections... images of the texts of more than 450 separately published trial narratives printed in the United States or the United Kingdom from 1815 until 1914.... divorce, domestic violence, adultery, bigamy, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children... murder and rape. Featured are trials concerning the wealthy and the renowned.... The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women thrust into the
public eye when their marriages and love affairs went wrong, or their relationships did not conform to social standards.'
GladCAT
is an electronic research resource invaluable not just for Gladstone scholars, but for all students of nineteenth century literature and culture, as well as for historians of the book and of reading.
New Books on Literature 19, a project devoted to the timely reviewing of recent works in the field of nineteenth-century literature
Victorian Network is a new online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.
The Journal of Victorian Culture Online
Simeon Solomon Research Archive: on the life and work of Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), the gay, Anglo-Jewish, Pre-Raphaelite/Aesthetic artist
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies: Lecture and seminar series
London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar: theme for Spring 2012, 'Orality and Literacy'
Shared visions: Art, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
University of Warwick, 11 Feb 2012
INCS 2012
Picturing the Nineteenth Century
March 22-25, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
33rd Annual Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference
Spiritual Matters/Matters of the Spirit
March 22-24, 2012, Asheville, North Carolina
Victorian Clichés and Orthodoxies
NVSA conference
Columbia University, April 13-15, 2012
Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950
13-14 April 2012, Newcastle University
W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary
British Library, London, 16 and 17 April 2012
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
"Hard Times" or "Great Expectations"? How the Victorians Saw Themselves
Indiana University, Bloomington, 20-22 Apr 2012
Transforming Objects
28-29 May 2012, Northumbria University
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
Landmarks
Millennium Harvest House, Boulder, Colorado,June 7 – 10, 2012
Disability & the Victorians: Confronting Legacies
30th July-1st August 2012, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies: Leeds Trinity University College
Sentiment and Sensation in Victorian Periodicals>
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference
14-15 September 2012, University of Texas at Austin
North American Victorian Studies Association Conference for 2012
Victorian Networks
Madison, Wisconsin, September 27-30
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