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My review of Jonathon Shears and Jen Harrison’s edited volume Literary Bric-à-Brac and the Victorians: From Commodities to Oddities is...

Thanks to a 2016-17 Travel Grant from the Lewis Walpole Library (taken in April 2017) I was able to conduct crucial primary research for...

Thanks to a 2016-17 Travel Grant from the Lewis Walpole Library (taken in April 2017) I was able to conduct crucial primary research for...

It’s the first day of my two-week research visit to the Lewis Walpole Library, and I’ve just finished looking through the anonymous...

It’s the first day of my two-week research visit to the Lewis Walpole Library, and I’ve just finished looking through the anonymous...

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a Harry Ransom Center Short Term Research Fellowship in the Humanities to conduct research on my...

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a Harry Ransom Center Short Term Research Fellowship in the Humanities to conduct research on my...

Please join us for the next session of this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session...

Please join us for the next session of this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session...

First up, Dominic Janes’ post, ‘A Queer Taste for Macaroni‘, on the Public Domain Review. I recently had an article accepted for a...

First up, Dominic Janes’ post, ‘A Queer Taste for Macaroni‘, on the Public Domain Review. I recently had an article accepted for a...

First up this week, this Apollo Magazine review of Yale Centre for British Art‘s exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta,...

First up this week, this Apollo Magazine review of Yale Centre for British Art‘s exhibition Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta,...

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. The award will allow me to...

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a Huntington Library Short Term Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year. The award will allow me to...

Victorian hand calling card, private collection. A slightly belated Week in Review post. As I’ve noted before, Notches and the Age of...

Victorian hand calling card, private collection. A slightly belated Week in Review post. As I’ve noted before, Notches and the Age of...

John Richard Coke Smyth, Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake. Watercolour 4 3/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. (121 mm x 108 mm), National Portrait Gallery,...

John Richard Coke Smyth, Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake. Watercolour 4 3/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. (121 mm x 108 mm), National Portrait Gallery,...

this year‘s Eighteenth-Century Research Seminar series at the University of Edinburgh. The session will present new work on...