Endnotes

VanArsdel Prize

Congratulations to Anne DeWitt of Yale University,winner of this year's VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay engaging Victorian periodicals. Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2010 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. Manuscripts should be 15–25 pages and should not have appeared in print. The winner receives a plaque, $300, and publication of the prize essay in VPR. Send paper submissions post-marked by 1 April 2010 to Kathryn Ledbetter, Department of English, 601 University Drive,Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616. Please include a description of current status in graduate school.

Robert L. Colby Scholarly Book Prize

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is very pleased to award the annual Robert L. Colby Scholarly Book Prize for a scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper and/or periodical press. All books exploring periodicals of the period are eligible (including single-author monographs, edited collections, and editions) as long as they have a publication date of 2009. The winner will receive a plaque and a monetary award of up to $3,000, and will be invited to speak at the RSVP conference next year. 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. For more information, please contact Kathryn Ledbetter, KLedbetter@ txstate.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 second 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 $2,500 each.

The Curran Fellowship is open to researchers of any age from any of a wide range of disciplinary perspectives—literary scholars, historians, biographers, economists, sociologists, art historians, and others—who are exploring the nineteenth-century British press as an object of study in its own right, and not only as a source of material for other historical topics. Applicants' projected research may involve study of any aspects of that 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., his or her research goals, the names and contact information of two scholars who are familiar with the applicant, and a description of the project to which these funds would be applied. The project description (approx. 500–800 words) is the key element of the application. That description should concisely indicate the rationale of the larger project to which this research will contribute and indicate how the funds would assist in that research. The applicant should have done enough preparatory work with finding aids, catalogs, and queries to archivists and librarians to be able to explain why the project's goals require that one or more particular collections of primary sources (manuscripts, printed texts, or digital facsimiles) be closely examined.

Applications for the Curran Fellowship for research to be undertaken in 2010 must be submitted in electronic form and sent to curranfellowship@rs4vp.org by 1 October 2009. Any queries about the application may be sent to the same address. Applicants will be notified by 1 December 2009. Successful applicants will be asked to submit a brief report to RSVP at the conclusion of the funded portion of their project, describing the results of their research.

The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is pleased to announce a new fellowship for 2009, made possible by the generosity of publisher Gale...