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Victorian Popular Fiction Association. A forum for everyone interested in #Victorian & #Neo-Victorian popular fiction & culture. Hosts @VPFJournal.
Joined July 2013
Step into the world of steam, scandal, and storytelling at our Virtual Victorian Tea Salon. Brew your favourite blend and join fellow members online for a lively afternoon discussion, creativity, and Victorian charm. All are welcome at our virtual tea table, even if just sipping!
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VPFA Third Sex reading group will be returning for their first session of Season 6 on 17th September, 5.30-7pm. The topic will be Mary Shelley's Lodore, co-hosted with Susan Civale and Siobhan-Michelle Smith! Sign up here:
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The Editors of Victorian Popular Fictions are looking for guest editors for autumn special issues from 2027 - 2030. Please see the attached CFP. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025, and we are happy to take any queries, please just email us at vpfjournal@gmail.com.
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Keep your eyes peeled on your inbox for our upcoming events and for information on how to register. Want to attend but you're not a member? Become one here:
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To join the VPFA, or renew your membership, please complete our membership form:VPFA-Membership-Form 2025-26 (downloads Word Document)Full membership is £25 and Student membership is £10. Membershi…
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The BMI's Victorian origins, links with popular authors (Charles Dickens a former President), and its ethos (then and now) of accessibility to people of all backgrounds and classes, means it is a perfect partner for us! [2/2]
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Following our successful annual conference at the Birmingham and Midlands Institute, the VPFA is pleased to announce it is now affiliated with the Birmingham & Midlands Institute [1/2]
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RT @blayds2025: Catch the first London production for over 100 years of A.A. Milne's classic The Truth About Blayds. Directed by Olivier….
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RT @blayds2025: The Truth About Blayds is a play about a fraudulent author. When premiered in 1921 rumours began about which famous Vict….
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Add to next month's reading list!.
Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welcome so please share widely (this poster has the correct start time of 5.30pm!) The text and audiobook are available on Internet Archive/Gutenberg.
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RT @SMDSmith_: Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welc….
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RT @blayds2025: "The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually" - Eeyore & A.A. Milne. Milne fan? . His play for gro….
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Our leading article is Carolyn Oulton's "polemical" piece 'Call that Reading? Creative Approaches to Literary Studies and Literary Heritage'. She talks about 'literary visiting', shared reading practices, and how literature, creative writing, and heritage can benefit one another
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Delivered a paper at our conference this week? Why not turn it into a full article for the next general issue of Victorian Popular Fictions? Our latest issue is out now and is open access:
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RT @BeccaLHam: Peter wakes up and realises that the time travel is a dream. Smith suggests we can understand the text to be a time travel c….
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RT @BeccaLHam: To date, Sarah Alexander is the only scholar to pay any critical attention to this novel - so Smith's research is extremely….
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RT @BeccaLHam: The final paper of the conference is Hayley Smith discussing Thomas Anstey Guthrie's Tourmalin’s Time Cheques as an early ti….
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RT @jamiegorrod: Creatures of the deep also exceed pre-existing taxonomies as strange, hybrid forms - eerie counterparts of terrestrial cre….
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RT @jamiegorrod: Popular science writing offers the most sustained interrogation of the haunting, Gothic formlessness of the seafloor – the….
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RT @jamiegorrod: Alphia discusses how authors such as Samuel Butler (in his novel Erewhon) apply Darwinian logic to the development of mach….
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