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Queen Victoria’s Journals on-line resource. If you are in the UK, you can participate virtually. Click here for further information (event information courtesy of NAVSA).

If you are on Twitter, I recommend following Queen Victoria Tweets, which tweets Queen Victoria’s authentic diary entries on the day they were written from her Coronation onwards. My favourite tweet so far: “@QueenVicTweets: Walked. Felt very sulky and cross.”

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One last link before the long weekend. Check out this new blog post from the Journal of Victorian Culture Online about reading Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities in weekly instalments. Time for a weekend read-a-long?

As always, If you have a CFP or event you would like share on this website, please contact Caley Ehnes via e-mail (cehnes@uvic.ca) or Twitter (@CaleyEhnes)

Victorian Humanity and Its Others VSAWC 2013

Congratulations to Alison Hurlburt (University of Alberta), winner of the 2013 Founders’ Circle Award for the best paper presented at the VSAWC conference by a graduate student or emerging scholar. Alison has won the award for her conference paper titled, “Arnold Bennett: Clay as Other to Inhabitants of the Five Towns.” Award adjudicators (Kristen Guest, Grace Kehler, Kristin Mahoney, and Vanessa Warne) admired the paper and its delivery: one of them described it as “fascinating, engaging, nicely paced.” As another remarked, Alison “did a wonderful job presenting the paper and fielding questions afterwards.”

Congratulations to Alison and to all Founders’ Circle Award entrants, whose work was very strong. We look forward to welcoming you back to next year’s conference in Banff in May!

For further information on the Founders’ Circle Award, click here.

RT @vsawc2013 Great new BRANCH article related to our conference theme, by a VSAWC member no less.

Check out “On the Cruelty to Animals Act, 15 August 1856″ by Susan Hamilton.

Announcing the Victorian Review’s 2010 Hamilton Prize for the best graduate student essay in the field of Victorian Studies. For more information, please visit the Victorian Review page.

Welcome to the new VSAWC website.

Please direct comments and questions to Dr. Meagan Timney, mbtimney@uvic.ca.