2019

Spring seminar series 2019

'What Might Have Been is Not What is!': Contingency in Dickens's Late Fiction

• 23 January 2019
• Speaker: Dr David McAllister (Birkbeck, University of London)

Writing 1859

• 6 February 2019
• Speaker: Professor Gail Marshall (University of Reading)

Wags: How to Tell Jokes in Victorian Britain

• 20 February 2019
• Speaker: Dr Bob Nicholson (Edge Hill University)

The Peahen Dinner, or the Women of 1914

• 6 March 2019
• Speaker: Dr Sarah Parker (Loughborough University)

Three presentations by Centre for Victorian Studies doctoral students

• 20 March 2019

Beautiful Dickens: Portraits and Public Intimacy in Dickens's Early Career

• 1 May 2019
• Speaker: Dr Julian North (University of Leicester)

Kinship and Care in Christina Rossetti's Ecopoetics

• 15 May 2019
• Speaker: Professor Emma Mason (University of Warwick)