Joanna Turner
@coppertapestry.bsky.social
Literary Detective (PhD Researcher) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social
I know a little bit about Marie Corelli, #19thcentury popular fiction, and #genealogy.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/staff/joanna-turner/
I know a little bit about Marie Corelli, #19thcentury popular fiction, and #genealogy.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4597-4354
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/staff/joanna-turner/
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Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
It’s research seminar eve! Looking forward to this session with the amazing @frankiedytor.bsky.social and hearing all about their recent work! Sign up to attend viaTeams with a DM @culturalcurrents.bsky.social
This week!
Join us on Wed 12 Nov, 16.15-17.30 GMT for our next research seminar, featuring Dr Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social (University of Exeter) on 'Edith Lees Ellis and Queer Disability Studies at the Fin de Siècle' - DM for Teams link
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It’s research seminar eve! Looking forward to this session with the amazing @frankiedytor.bsky.social and hearing all about their recent work! Sign up to attend viaTeams with a DM @culturalcurrents.bsky.social
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I helped an escaped convict remove his shackles when I was a boy and now because of that act he is secretly paying for me to become a gentleman. Never stop grinding
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I helped an escaped convict remove his shackles when I was a boy and now because of that act he is secretly paying for me to become a gentleman. Never stop grinding
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Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is coming up on Friday, 21 November! We'll hear from the editors of 3 top Victorian studies journals (including VPR's own kmalonephd.bsky.social) on "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal." Come one, come all! buff.ly/ydJkKAK
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is coming up on Friday, 21 November! We'll hear from the editors of 3 top Victorian studies journals (including VPR's own kmalonephd.bsky.social) on "How to Get Published in an Academic Journal." Come one, come all! buff.ly/ydJkKAK
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Last week we hosted two excellent research papers:@braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction and Dr Nick Freeman,"Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction and Dr Nick Freeman,"Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Last week we hosted two excellent research papers:@braddonite.bsky.social "We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction and Dr Nick Freeman,"Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction and Dr Nick Freeman,"Yesterday, When I was Mad": Arthur Symons and Writing from the Asylum
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My article on 'Brigid Brophy's Ethical Aestheticism: Form, Empathy, Reciprocity' is now out in the latest issue of Genre, in a special issue on Aestheticism Now! I'm looking forward to reading all the other articles. You can find the issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...
Volume 58 Issue 2 | Genre | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
My article on 'Brigid Brophy's Ethical Aestheticism: Form, Empathy, Reciprocity' is now out in the latest issue of Genre, in a special issue on Aestheticism Now! I'm looking forward to reading all the other articles. You can find the issue here: read.dukeupress.edu/genre/issue/...
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Can't wait for this to come out. Great collage Eleanor Dobson. Well Done @coppertapestry.bsky.social and all x
Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Can't wait for this to come out. Great collage Eleanor Dobson. Well Done @coppertapestry.bsky.social and all x
Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
October 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
My article revealing Marie Corelli’s hidden decade of pseudonymous periodical publications is now available to read in this fantastic FREE issue of Victorian Periodicals Review!
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@vpreditors.bsky.social
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@lboroenglish.bsky.social
Project MUSE - Victorian Periodicals Review-Volume 56, Number 1, Spring 2023
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July 17, 2025 at 8:08 AM
My article revealing Marie Corelli’s hidden decade of pseudonymous periodical publications is now available to read in this fantastic FREE issue of Victorian Periodicals Review!
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@rs4vp.org
@lboroenglish.bsky.social
@vpreditors.bsky.social
@rs4vp.org
@lboroenglish.bsky.social
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You can now get hold of my book Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry in paperback, for a mere £34.39 in the Routledge sale (isn't that about the price of a flat white in London these days?)
Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922: A Line of Her Own
While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by atte...
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July 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
You can now get hold of my book Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry in paperback, for a mere £34.39 in the Routledge sale (isn't that about the price of a flat white in London these days?)
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Our next speaker in the Science and Imagination panel at #VPFAExtremes is Bridget Morgan, with her paper 'The Rejuvenated Spinster: An Alternative Narrative of Ageing in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future (1918)'
July 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our next speaker in the Science and Imagination panel at #VPFAExtremes is Bridget Morgan, with her paper 'The Rejuvenated Spinster: An Alternative Narrative of Ageing in Marie Corelli’s The Young Diana: An Experiment of the Future (1918)'
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We had a fantastic afternoon at graduation today! Huge congratulations to our excellent graduates, and to our prize winners!
July 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We had a fantastic afternoon at graduation today! Huge congratulations to our excellent graduates, and to our prize winners!
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A few more snaps from the prize ceremony 👏🥂🥳🍾🎉
July 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A few more snaps from the prize ceremony 👏🥂🥳🍾🎉
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On our Brontës and Relationships panel, we have Kiera Clark discussing the extreme consequences of restricting female autonomy, focussing on Bertha Mason. Various forms of the gothic are central to this analysis #VPFAExtremes
July 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
On our Brontës and Relationships panel, we have Kiera Clark discussing the extreme consequences of restricting female autonomy, focussing on Bertha Mason. Various forms of the gothic are central to this analysis #VPFAExtremes
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After talking dinosaurs and nineteenth-century literature at the @vpfa.bsky.social annual conference #VPFAExtremes, we're on to Birmingham Library's nineteenth-century Shakespeare Library, which was surgically inserted into the modern building. Also a summer view from the rooftop garden.
July 15, 2025 at 1:52 PM
After talking dinosaurs and nineteenth-century literature at the @vpfa.bsky.social annual conference #VPFAExtremes, we're on to Birmingham Library's nineteenth-century Shakespeare Library, which was surgically inserted into the modern building. Also a summer view from the rooftop garden.
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Keynote 2 is Richard Fallon: Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction.
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
July 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Keynote 2 is Richard Fallon: Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction.
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
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Our third paper in the Braddon panel is also on 'Lady Audley's Secret'. Anna-Maria Grill: "The Mad-Doctress and her Patients: Negotiating Female Medical Agency in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 'Lady Audley’s Secret'".
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
July 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Our third paper in the Braddon panel is also on 'Lady Audley's Secret'. Anna-Maria Grill: "The Mad-Doctress and her Patients: Negotiating Female Medical Agency in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s 'Lady Audley’s Secret'".
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
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The second paper in the Braddon panel is on one of my favourite novels of the Victorian Era: 'Lady Audley's Secret'. Marta Shevchenko's paper is delivered online from Kharkiv, Ukraine is called "Vanishing Women: Anorexic Metaphors and Psychological Extremes in 'Lady Audley’s Secret'".
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
July 15, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The second paper in the Braddon panel is on one of my favourite novels of the Victorian Era: 'Lady Audley's Secret'. Marta Shevchenko's paper is delivered online from Kharkiv, Ukraine is called "Vanishing Women: Anorexic Metaphors and Psychological Extremes in 'Lady Audley’s Secret'".
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
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I had the best time presenting this paper! It was such a great panel to be on - by a *wild* coincidence, we had two separate papers, featuring two separate books that both just so happened to have a character with the last name of Tempest, and someone accidentally selling their soul...
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
Next we’ve got @ebutler-way.bsky.social talking about the legacies of Jane Eyre in A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott, particularly the role of fate #VPFAExtremes
July 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I had the best time presenting this paper! It was such a great panel to be on - by a *wild* coincidence, we had two separate papers, featuring two separate books that both just so happened to have a character with the last name of Tempest, and someone accidentally selling their soul...
#VPFAExtremes
#VPFAExtremes
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The Sappho panel today was excellent. #VPFAExtremes
Bantock was a champion of the popular and the new in music, and his (and his wife’s) Sappho was a composite of popular and elite cultures, a middlebrow, aspirational piece. This reflects Bantock’s own complex relationship to cultural authority #VPFAExtremes
July 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The Sappho panel today was excellent. #VPFAExtremes
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I've finally joined Blue-sky on the train, on my way to #vpfaextremes. It's been a while since I followed a # but I'm looking forward to it! Obviously finishing my paper on the train.
July 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I've finally joined Blue-sky on the train, on my way to #vpfaextremes. It's been a while since I followed a # but I'm looking forward to it! Obviously finishing my paper on the train.
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"Ouida" has been selected as the runner-up to the VPFA Second Book Prize 2025! Thank you very much to the lovely scholars who supported this book and for these wonderful, generous reviews! ✨
July 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"Ouida" has been selected as the runner-up to the VPFA Second Book Prize 2025! Thank you very much to the lovely scholars who supported this book and for these wonderful, generous reviews! ✨
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Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it.
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
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@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
doi.org/10.46911/TWO...
Victorian Popular Fictions 7.1 8 Butler-Way
Helena Esser, Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 248 pp. HB £85.00. ISBN: 9781350433908 Reviewed by Emma Butler-Way Downlo…
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July 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it.
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
doi.org/10.46911/TWO...
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
doi.org/10.46911/TWO...
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Anyway, an hour or so investigating this very topic, and many other more interesting ones regarding Elizabeth Taylor and Angel, is coming this weekend/next week on Backlisted. We are all really excited about sharing it with you. Subscribe! SUBSCRIBE! @backlisted.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Anyway, an hour or so investigating this very topic, and many other more interesting ones regarding Elizabeth Taylor and Angel, is coming this weekend/next week on Backlisted. We are all really excited about sharing it with you. Subscribe! SUBSCRIBE! @backlisted.bsky.social
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@drsarahparker.bsky.social’s edited volume Michael Field in Context is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in September!
Michael Field in Context has a cover!
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Michael Field in Context
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Michael Field in Context
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June 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
@drsarahparker.bsky.social’s edited volume Michael Field in Context is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in September!
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Join us for BAVS Talks 2025 celebrating the 25th anniversary of BAVS UK; Friday 27 June, 2-5:30pm at the University of Leicester. Featuring talks from Victorianists + Postgrad Poster Session & Networking Reception - Register now: » bavs.ac.uk/event/bavs-t...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Join us for BAVS Talks 2025 celebrating the 25th anniversary of BAVS UK; Friday 27 June, 2-5:30pm at the University of Leicester. Featuring talks from Victorianists + Postgrad Poster Session & Networking Reception - Register now: » bavs.ac.uk/event/bavs-t...