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108Victorian Review reincarnation, ethics and spy fiction, theological question begging, adverbially qualified truth values, multiple personalities, and similar topics. LAUREN McKINNEY is a Ph.D. student in English at Temple University. She is writing her dissertation on melodramatic interventions in British novels of the 1890s. She published "Weeping in the Night: Reading Beyond Language in The Caucasian Chalk Circle" in the December 1992 issue of Modern Drama. RICHARD NEMESVARI is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University. He has published articles and reviews on Hardy, Conrad, and Stevie Smith in such journals as the Victorian Newsletter, Dalhousie Review, JEGP, and 7"Ae Library. His edition of Hardy's novel 7"Ae Trumpet-Major, with introduction and notes, was recently published by Oxford University Press in its World's Gassics series. MARTIN WHITTLES was educated at the University of Lethbridge and the London School of Economics and Cambridge. He has recently completed two years of fieldwork at Sachs Harbour, Banks Island. He is currently completing his Ph.D. on Western Arctic Inuit at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. ANNOUNCEMENTS 7"Ae Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada will hold its Twenty-Third Annual Conference at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, September 29 October 1, 1994. Proposals should be sent by January 15, 1994 to Aliene Young, Secretary-Treasurer, VSAWC, Department of English, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N2. 7"Ae Victorian Studies Association of Ontario annual conference will be held this year at Oakham House, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, on Saturday April 16, 1994. Heather Glen, New Hall, Cambridge, will speak on Charlotte Broni£ and the imagination in history, and Richard Landon, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, will be speaking on Victorian forgeries. For registration information please contact Dr. Gillian Fenwick, Secretary-Treasurer, Victorian Studies Association, c/o English Office, 302 Pratt Library, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, M5S 1K7. Eleventh International Thomas Hardy Conference, Dorchester, Dorset, U.K., July 23 to July 30, 1994. The Thomas Hardy Society organizes a conference every two years. It is an event that anyone with a love of Hardy should attend once in their lives. For some it becomes an addiction. Announcements109 This year the Conference will last for eight days, beginning with a reception and a country dance to the music of "Diggory Venn" on the Saturday night, through something like a dozen lectures, fourteen seminars, walks, coach trips into the Hardy country, a visit to Max Gale (by kind permission of Mr. and Mrs. T.W. Jesty), a new musical folk-drama England Expects! and a variety of other musical events. In the light of the projected rebuilding of a West Gallery in Stinsford Church, there will be considerable emphasis on music of the West Gallery tradition with contributions, including a West Gallery Morning Service, from The Madding Crowd (such a success last year), the inimitable Mellstock Band (who will also be playing for the dance on the final evening), and, hopefully, a remarkable group from Vermont who perform music from the American tradition of 18th, 19th and 20th century Sacred Harp and Shape-note music. It is also hoped to mount in the Dorset County Museum an exhibition of illustrations to Hardy's writings over the years culminating in Peter Reddick's recent engravings for The Folio Society. For registration information please contact Furse Swann. Conference Director, P.O. Box 1438, Dorchester, Dorsetshire DTl IYH, ENGLAND. Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) announces its 1994 annual meeting: "Rethinking 'Family Values.' Formations, Transformations, Resistances, Dissolutions." April 8-9, College of William and Mary. Inquiries to Richard Lowery, Department of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. Victorian Poetry: Essays are invited for a centenary issue of Victorian Poetry on "William Morris, 1896-1996: His Legacy and Contemporary Relevance". These may consider any aspect of Morris's literary work, including his essays and romances, as well as the interrelation between his writings, his political activism, and innovations in craftwork and design. Particularly welcome are essays which further reconsideration of Morris's translations; his major poems and poetic reputation; his relevance to contemporary and subsequent theory of utopia; his accomplishments as a writer of...