Upcoming Events

VPFA are partnering with the Reynolds Society for a joint book launch to celebrate newly published books in our field by our members:

• Rebecca Nesvet’s James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family (Routledge 2024)

• Mary Shannon’s Billy Waters is Dancing (Yale UP, 2024)

• Helena Esser’s Key Popular Women Writer’s monograph on Ouida (Edward Everett Root, 2024)

• Tamar Heller’s Key Popular Women Writer’s monograph on Rhoda Broughton (Edward Everett Root, 2023)

The online event will take place at 5pm BST on Wednesday 20th November 2024. We hope to see you there to celebrate! Join the Zoom meeting here.

Past Events

Why Victorian Studies Needs G. W. M. Reynolds: A Roundtable Organised by the G. W. M. Reynolds Society

Friday 2 September 2022, University of Birmingham, Birmingham.

A roundtable organised by the G. W. M. Reynolds Society presented at BAVS 2022. Presentations were given by Mary Shannon (Roehampton), Hayley Braithwaite (University of York), Ian Haywood (Roehampton), Daniel Jenkin-Smith (Aston University), and Stephen Basedo (Independent Scholar).

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Reynolds Re-evaluated: The Launch of the G. W. M. Reynolds Society

Tuesday 23 July 2019, City of Westminster Archives Centre, London.

The official launch of the G. W. M. Reynolds Society. A free, public event exploring the life and work of G. W. M. Reynolds. Presentations and readings were given by Jennifer Conary (DePaul University, Chicago), Ian Haywood (Roehampton), Anne Humpherys (City University, New York), and Louis James (University of Kent). Organised in collaboration with Westminster City Archives.

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‘Dickens vs Reynolds on Wellington Street:’ Writing and Fighting in Victorian London

Tuesday 21 February 2017, City of Westminster Archives Centre, London.

A free public talk by Mary L. Shannon (Roehampton).

‘Remarkable Reynolds:’ Dickens’s Radical Rival

Saturday 26 July 2014, City of Westminster Archives Centre, London.

A free bicentenary event exploring the life & work of G. W. M. Reynolds. Presentations and readings given by Mary L. Shannon (Roehampton), Adrian Autton (Head Archivist at City of Westminster Archives Centre), Louis James (University of Kent), Ian Haywood (Roehampton)  Michael Slater (Birbeck), Anne Humpherys (City University New York), Ruth Doherty (Trinity College Dublin), Jessica Hindes (Royal Holloway), Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University). Presented by the Westminster City Archives and The University of Roehampton. 

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