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The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is very pleased to announce the first winners of the annual Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded for a work published the preceding year which has made a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals. The prize was made possible by a generous gift by Vineta Colby in honor of Robert Colby, a long and devoted member of RSVP and a major scholar in the field of Victorian periodicals. The award will be made at the annual RSVP conference, this year at the Graduate Center CUNY New York City, 15-16 September 2006. Two scholars will share the award for books published in 2005, each winner receiving $1500: Linda K. Hughes for Graham R.: Rosamund Marriot Watson, Woman of Letters (Athens: Ohio University Press), and Peter Morton for "The Busiest Man in England": Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 (New York and Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan). If you publish a book in 2006 that you would like to have considered for next year's prize, please send the information to Anne Humpherys, ahumpherys@gc.cuny.edu.
Congratulations to Christopher Pittard, whose essay, "'Cheap, Healthful Literature': The Strand Magazine, Fictions of Crime, and Purified Reading Communities," won the 2006 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student paper on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. A graduate student at the University of Exeter, Pittard will receive a plaque, $300, and publication of the prize essay in VPR.
Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2007 VanArsdel Prize. Manuscripts should be 15-25 pages and should not have appeared in print. Send submissions before April 1, 2007 to Kathryn Ledbetter, [End Page 189] Department of English, 601 University Drive, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616.
The annual conference of RSVP will be held September 15–16, 2006 at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. The topic will be "Victorian Geographies." RSVP will feature work on such wide-ranging topics as borders, spaces, hemispheres, colonies, resources, diasporas, populations, landscapes, environments, cities, regions, migrations, niches, disasters, maps, and other topics as they relate to the production, circulation, and consumption of Victorian periodicals. The program will also include a roundtable devoted to methods of teaching periodicals in the classroom. RSVP is pleased to be able to award three grants of $100 each to graduate students presenting papers at the conference. Please consult the RSVP Web site at http://www.rs4vp.org for further information about conference registration, plenary and keynote speakers, and related activities. Please direct questions about local arrangements to Anne Humpherys at president@rs4vp.org.
The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the North American Victorian Studies Association will join forces for two major conferences on the nineteenth century at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana on 31 August to 3 September 2006 (Labor Day weekend). Questions about the conference should be addressed to Dino Franco Felluga at felluga@purdue.edu. For more information, please consult http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA/Conferences/2006.
The Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS) announces its 11th annual conference to be held on 26-28 October 2006 at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA. The conference theme will be "The Presence of the Past in the Victorian Age." Visit the VISAWUS Web site at http://www.visawus.org for updates and further information.
Eileen Curran's additions and corrections to the Wellesley Index are now located at www.victorianresearch.org.
A newly revised edition of Rosemary VanArsdel's guide, "Victorian Periodicals: Aids to Research," can be found on VictorianResearch.org at the following address: http://victorianresearch.org/periodicals.html. This selected and annotated bibliography now covers 176 published works of interest to students of the nineteenth-century press. [End Page 190]
VPR is now available online as a new member of Project Muse.
Please consult the RSVP Web page for more information about the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, www.rs4vp.org.
The University of Toronto Web site: www.utpjournals.com
