Endnotes

Call for Nominations

Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce the annual Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for the 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) so long as they have an official publication date of 2010. The winner will receive a monetary award of up to $3,000 and will be invited to speak at the RSVP conference at Christchurch Canterbury College in 2011. The prize is 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.

Previous winners of the Colby Prize include:

• 2010: Mark Schoenfield, British Periodicals and Romantic Identity, 1790-1830 (Palgrave, 2009), and Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, eds., Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (Chicago, 2009)

• 2009: Catherine Waters, Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods (Ashgate, 2008)

• 2008: Kathryn Ledbetter, Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (Ashgate, 2007).

• 2007: David Finkelstein, ed., Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition (University of Toronto Press, 2006).

• 2006: Linda K. Hughes, Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (Ohio University Press, 2005) and Peter Morton, The Busiest Man in England: Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 (Palgrave, 2005).

To nominate a book please email Linda Peterson (linda.peterson@yale.edu) by 1 December 2010. You or your press will be asked to supply the committee with five copies of the book by the beginning of January, 2011. Self-nominations are welcome.

VanArsdel Prize

Congratulations to Rebecca Soares of The University of Wisconsin, Madison, winner of the 2010 VanArsdel Prize for graduate student essays. Rebecca will receive $300, an engraved plaque, and publication in the spring issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2011 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. Send paper submissions postmarked by 1 April 2011 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.

RSVP Conference

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will hold its 43rd annual conference July 22-23, 2011, at Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK. Less than an hour from London by rail, Canterbury, set in the beautiful Kent countryside, will provide the setting for a stimulating conference that includes the annual Michael Wolff Lecture, a presentation by the Colby Book Prize winner, and the Annual General Meeting of RSVP. Attendees will also be able to take a tour of the city and cathedral, and visit the Dickens House Museum in Broadstairs. Visit the RSVP website at www.rs4vp.org for the Call for Papers and other details.

The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is pleased to announce the second annual Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship, made possible by the generosity of publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, in support of dissertation research that makes substantial use of full-text digitized collections of nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers. A prize of $1500 will be awarded, together with one year's passworded subscription to selected digital collections from Gale, including "19th Century UK Periodicals" and "19th Century British Library Newspapers."

Purpose: The purpose of the Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship is two-fold: (1) to support historical and literary research that deepens our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press in all its rich variety, and (2) to encourage the scholarly use of full-text digitized collections of these primary sources in aid of that research.

Eligibility: Eligible for this award is any currently enrolled postgraduate student, in any academic discipline, who by the end of 2010 will have embarked on a doctoral dissertation or thesis that centrally involves investigation into one or more aspects...