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Breaking in your spring shoes? Have a look at Dr Veronica Isaac (she/her/hers) blogpost and these gorgeous satin boots - perhaps a pair of 'padded symmetricals' too! To hear more about these and the fascinating history of C19 music hall culture, read here: jvc.oup.com/2021/04/01/kit…

In North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell highlights how conflict fuels female agency. From Margaret Hale's activism to Bessy Higgins's resistance, check out how Gaskell portrays women breaking free from societal constraints: jvc.oup.com/2025/01/27/fem…

Weird fiction? Yes, please. Rediscover Robert Murray Gilchrist, an often forgotten talent who influenced weird fiction long before Lovecraft, and his hybrid femme fatale/maternal archetypes as they challenge gender norms: jvc.oup.com/2024/11/26/the… #gothic #weirdfiction #Lovecraft

JVC Prize Essay Talk, 'The Afterlife of a Stuart Princess in Victorian Culture ', by Sarah Betts. Join us on Thursday 27th March, 6pm, Royal Holloway Picture Gallery. More info here: jvc.oup.com/events-and-cal…

Love is in the air... and in the pudding!❤️You too could tackle Mrs. Beeton’s Half-Pay Pudding for a sweet Valentine's Day treat🍰 Check it out: jvc.oup.com/2012/04/22/mrs… #ValentinesDay #journalofvictorianculture #19thcentury #baking #Victorian

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🎪Come one, come all!🎪Read how P.T. Barnum and General Tom Thumb became global sensations while on their 1844 European tour: jvc.oup.com/2025/02/05/p-t… #Barnum #TomThumb #VictorianEra #journalofvictorianculture #19thcentury

Check out the surprising similarities between Ellen Wood’s middle-class melodramas & today’s guilty-pleasure films. Read to discover how 19th-century sensation novels like East Lynne (1861) compare to modern Lifetime movies: jvc.oup.com/2024/04/18/ell…

Explore the depths of the 19th century with Thomas Wallace Knox's Underground: Or, Life Below the Surface. From the catacombs to philosophical musings on society’s underworlds, read more about how subterranean spaces shaped moral and cultural ideas: jvc.oup.com/2020/01/24/mcc…

From tales of madness and mistreatment to shocking crimes, explore how the British press shaped perceptions of vagrants. Read more here: jvc.oup.com/2020/02/14/mad… #journalofvictorianculture #19thcentury #victorian

Learn more about miniature melodramas and pantomimes and how publishers like William West bridged the gap between London's grand theatres and these juvenile performances🎭✨ Read here: jvc.oup.com/2020/02/07/toy… #TheatreHistory #19thCentury #journalofvictorianculture

From Dickens to Burnett, the Victorian domestic hearth symbolizes comfort, warmth, and social contrast. Check out this blog post for a deep dive into the complexities of the hearth in 19th-century fiction. It's totally lit...🔥: jvc.oup.com/2024/03/01/the…

Deadly decor? Did you know Victorian wallpapers could be deadly? Arsenic-laced pigments were common, and the consequences were tragic. From health risks to even murder, discover how "Arsenic's Golden Age" affected the world of wallpaper💀: jvc.oup.com/2023/12/14/ars…

👧Utopian child's play🧒H.G. Wells and Edith Nesbit believed play could change the future. Explore how their game manuals critiqued capitalism, nurtured imagination, and shaped a new vision for society: jvc.oup.com/2022/12/02/soc…

🦷In Victorian fiction, false teeth were more than a cosmetic fix—they were a symbol of deception and hidden truths🦷 Learn how Thackeray used dentures to expose characters' secrets here: jvc.oup.com/2022/10/21/fal…

From the Salvation Army’s 19th-century strategies to today’s ethical shopping trends, our choices reflect personal identity & wider societal impact. Check out this blog post: jvc.oup.com/2022/08/22/con…

Alice Perrin’s gothic short story The Biscobra unleashes a creature of myth, science, and empire. A deadly lizard, a reincarnated child, and the collapse of imperial reason. Check out this blog post: jvc.oup.com/2022/06/03/the…

Explore how 19th-c. literature—particularly works by Dickens and George Borrow—offers insight into the itinerant and Romani populations absent from the 1841 British census. Read here: jvc.oup.com/2025/04/14/iti… #journalofvictorianculture #VictorianStudies

With Mother's Day on the horizon, take a look at this article by Jessica Cox where she connects breast-feeding in Victorian advice books with “Mansplaining.“🤰🏼 Read here: doi.org/10.1093/jvcult…

🎶From reverent compositions to subversive street ballads🎶 Queen Victoria’s image was contested and co-opted through 19th-century popular song. Learn more about the monarch’s complex cultural after life in music: jvc.oup.com/2021/09/16/mus…