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Did you know that Geraldine Jewsbury wrote 2,200 #C19Reviews in the Athenaeum? Or that the Rev. Thomas Mosley wrote 7k leading articles for the Times? Both wrote in the era of anonymity in the #C19Press. Consider how much impact each of these writers had on their readership and by extension on the public discourse. These are just two of the excellent insights that @patrickleary@historians.social makes in his post on the value of #C19 #Attribution work. https://www.curranindex.org/news/17/ (2023-09-28 ↗)

Finding Gissing’s _New Grub Street_ far more compelling and captivating than I expected. The love scene in chapter XXIV when there’s still 13 chapters left makes me nervous as a reader and curious as a critic. Obviously, Gissing is not setting up a tidy marriage plot ending, but as a reader I want Jasper and Marian to be happy… Then, there’s the scientific thread, which very much calls Grant Allen’s 1880s popular science essays to mind. It’d be neat to teach the two together. (2023-07-21 ↗)

#C19Periodicals folks: any ideas about where I might find the weekly periodical "Lady's Pictorial" (1880-1912)? It's not on @patrickleary@historians.social's wonderful VRW list of open periodicals; nor did I find it in C19, British Periodicals, or BL Newspapers? I'm curios about the serialization {6 Jan – 24 Mar 1894} of Hepworth Dixon's _The Story of a Modern Woman_. (2023-07-20 ↗)

Really fabulous workshop this morning about the extensive resources and opportunities within Humanities Commons. Thanks to @babaklar for hosting and to @BatsInLavender and Zoe Wake Hyde for supporting us in understanding how we might use https://hcommons.org for a variety of scholarly/academic purposes. One challenge of major career change is technology shifts: I had a fabulous website as a secondary teacher, but I stopped hosting it in 2013. Now, I really should have an online presence as an emerging scholar, but where and how and to what extent? {And with what energy? Reinvention is WORK.} Starting with maintaining and sharing my publicly visible HC profile seems a great option. For that bit of clarity, I say an extra thanks to the HC staff who designed and presented today's workshop! (2023-05-03 ↗)

Minnesota spring mirrors a semester of bleak, quiet frustration. BUT, but this Friday, there's the RSVP Digital Event to look forward to! 🌞 #C19 #PeriodicalPress See you there‽ Friday, April 7 [is their] first “Collaborative Learning and Troubleshooting” workshop with Jiwon Min on “The Making and Unmaking of Krakatau: Reading Nineteenth Century Periodicals, the Volcano and Climate Change.” The workshop will take place Friday, April 7 at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT. https://rs4vp.org/need-help-with-periodical-research/ (2023-04-04 ↗)