Endnotes

RSVP Conference

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will hold its annual conference at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, September 10–11, 2010. The conference theme is “The Material Cultures of Periodicals,” and many of the Friday sessions will integrate displays of relevant periodicals, either from private collections or from Yale’s libraries. The program will include a plenary lecture by Brian Maidment, Professor of English, Salford University, named in honor of Michael Wolff; a presentation by the winner of the 2010 Colby Scholarly Book Prize; and a special workshop on the process of print-making, led by Brian Maidment and curators at the Yale Center for British Art. For further information, see the conference website: http://www.yale.edu/english/rsvp-conference/rs4vp.html .

Call for Papers Special Issue, Victorian Periodicals Review: Victorian Networks and the Periodical Press

Alexis Easley will be guest editing a special issue of VPR based on the 2009 RSVP Conference theme: Victorian Networks and the Periodical Press. The deadline for article-length (6,500–to 7,000-word) essays is September 1, 2010. Articles selected for publication will appear in the Spring 2012 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Please submit your essay as a Word file via e-mail. Only essays developed from papers presented at the 2009 RSVP Conference will be considered for publication. No previously published or simultaneous submissions, please. For further information, contact Alexis Easley via e-mail: maeasley@stthomas.edu.

The Curran Fellowship for Research on the Victorian Press

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is pleased to announce the competition for the third annual Curran Fellowship, a travel and research grant intended to aid scholars studying nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Curran Fellowship is awarded annually in the form of two grants of $2500 each.

Applicants’ projected research may involve study of any aspects of the periodical press in any of its manifold forms, and may range from within Britain itself to the many countries, within and outside of the Empire, where British magazines and newspapers were bought, sold, and read during “the long nineteenth century” (ca. 1780–1914).

Applicants should send a c.v., the names and contact information of two scholars who are familiar with the applicant and his or her research goals, and a description of the project to which these funds would be applied. Applications for the Curran Fellowship for research to be undertaken in 2011 must be submitted in electronic form and sent to curranfellowship@rs4vp.org by 1 October 2010. Any queries about the application may be sent to the same address. Applicants will be notified by 1 December 2010. Successful applicants will be required to submit a brief report to RSVP at the conclusion of the funded portion of their project, describing the results of their research.

The full version of this call for applications, as well as a set of guidelines for applicants, may be found on the RSVP website at www.rs4vp.org

Eileen Curran’s most recent edition of the Curran Index of additions and corrections to the Wellesley Index is located at http://victorianresearch.org/curranindex.html . Her recently expanded “Biographies of Some Obscure Contributors to Victorian Periodicals” can be found at http://www.victorianresearch.org/Obscure_contributors.html

Rosemary VanArsdel’s guide, “Victorian Periodicals: Aids to Research,” can be found on VictorianResearch.org at the following address: http://victorianresearch.org/periodicals.html . Newly revised and expanded, this select annotated bibliography now covers 183 published works of interest to students of the nineteenth-century press.

Back issues of Victorian Periodicals Review and Victorian Periodicals Newsletter are now available in fully searchable digitized format through JSTOR. VPR is available online as a member of Project Muse.

RSVP now has a Facebook group, as well, where members can find announcements and exchange messages.

Please consult the RSVP Web page for more information about the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, www.rs4vp.org .