Victorian Women Writers

International Centre for Victorian Women Writers

The ICVWW aims to spearhead new and innovative research in the area of Victorian Women’s Writing, providing an international focus for scholars. Current interests include textual editing, life writing, crime and sensation fiction, New Woman literature, childhood and literary networks in the nineteenth century.

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Research Projects

The ICVWW is seeking to establish an international network of researchers in the field of Victorian women’s writing for collaborative projects and funding bids.

Our latest research projects

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From Brontë  to Bloomsbury

Between 2014 and 2014 ICVWW hosted a series of International Conferences titled From Brontë to Bloomsbury: Realism, Sensation and the New in Women’s Writing from the 1840s to the 1930s.

Find out more about our international conference series

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ICVWW Postgraduate study day

 Join us at Augustine House for the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers' Postgraduate study day. 

Forthcoming Events 

 

Not your average jospephine

This project explores the ideas that come to mind when we think about Victorian woman writers.

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Gates to the Glorious and the Unknown

In 1862 a young woman called Lucy boards a train at the newly opened Victoria Station in London. In 1922 she turns up on the beach in Margate where T. S. Eliot is writing his major poem The Wasteland. But where has she been all this time?

Find out more about our interactive digital research project

 
 

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