Editors’ Introduction

The eleventh annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association met in Pasadena, California in October of 2013 to explore the broad theme of “Evidence.” Once again, we publish here work originally presented at the conference. We invited Herbert F. Tucker, paul R. Deslandes, and Laura Otis each to select a cluster of three compelling papers from the conference. We publish their selections, and their responses to those selections, in the pages that follow.

NAVSA’s twelfth annual conference will be held in London, Ontario November 13–15, 2014, exploring the theme of “Victorian Classes and Classifications.” For more information on the organization and the annual conference, see its website, http://navsa.org/.