Digital Cruikshank.
Congratulations to Lindsay DiCuirci's students at UMBC for creating this splendid introduction to the life and work of the fantastically prolific 19th-c. artist and illustrator George Cruikshank: https://library-dev.umbc.edu/wp/specialcollections/cruikshank/

#victorian #victodon #bookhistory #illustration

This weekend marks the 125th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's Death, and I wrote and article for BBC History Extra exploring the life of the man behind the pseudonym, whose work, mathematical and literary influenced the lives of so many, from suffragettes to Alan Turing.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/lewis-carroll-author-life-alice-in-wonderland/

#scicomm #histsci #histodon #literature #science #history #victodon

As students of reading and publishing know, Mudie's circulating library was a huge presence in Victorian literary life. These are the only 19th-c. copies of the Mudie's catalogue that I've found online. Nicely spaced selection, though, and each one makes for an interesting browse.

July 1858 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951p002914632&view=1up&seq=5
January 1860 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t1mg7j76s&view=1up&seq=5
January 1865 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082940258&view=1up&seq=5
April 1873 https://archive.org/details/MudiesSelectLibraryPrincipalBooksApril1873
April 1876 https://archive.org/details/MudiesSelectLibraryPrincipalBooksApril1876/page/n3/mode/2up
#bookhistory #victorian #victodon

Here is the latest edition of my list of links to open access digital copies of a fairly wide range of 19th-century British periodicals. I would be grateful for any additions or corrections. https://www.victorianresearch.org/openaccessperiodicals.html
#victorian #victodon #histodons #bookhistory

Big Christmastime thanks and blessings to The Victorian Web, making Victorianist scholarship available online since 1994. And to its onlie begetter, George Landow, whom I first met in 1972. George taught me to love Tennyson, and for that alone I will always be grateful. victorianweb.org #victodon #victorian #victorianstudies

This charming story is from a memoir by Kate Douglas Wiggin about her chance encounter with Charles Dickens when she was a little girl in Maine. (She would grow up to write, among other things, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.) I first came across it in a now-vanished Evanston bookshop long ago and it never fails to lift my spirits. All best wishes of the season to John Mastodon and friends.

http://victorianresearch.org/wiggin.pdf

#victorian #histodons #victodon #Christmas

I've been revisiting Molly Hughes's quietly fascinating trilogy of memoirs, which begins with the delightful A London Child of the 1870s, published in 1934. "We were just an ordinary, suburban, Victorian family," she writes disarmingly, "undistinguished ourselves and unacquainted with distinguished people."

I thought others might enjoy this passage about how Molly and her brothers prepared for Christmas. #histodons #victorian #victodon

Here's some wonderful news: the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath has acquired the handwritten draft (penned in about 1836) of astronomer Caroline Herschel's memoirs:
https://herschelmuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Herschel-Museum-buys-Caroline-Herschels-memoirs-FINAL.pdf #histodon #victodon #history

Here's some wonderful news: the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath has acquired the handwritten draft (penned in about 1836) of astronomer Caroline Herschel's memoirs:
https://herschelmuseum.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Herschel-Museum-buys-Caroline-Herschels-memoirs-FINAL.pdf #histodon #victodon #history

History Today has chosen as one of its "articles of the year" this horrifying account by Sarah Wise of the forced emigration of pauper children from London to Canada.
HT has made it accessible to non-subscribers, at least for now: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/charity-begins-home #victodon #histodon #Victorian

Check out this guest blog post by Molly Watson on Cyborg John Keats @litstudies #Litodon #Victodon #Romantodon #Bookodon #AcademicMastodon #Keats #Cyborgs https://romanticridiculous.wordpress.com/2022/12/05/cyborg-john-keats/

I'm super proud of our new job ad for PhD / Graduate Teaching Assistantships in English and Creative Writing at Edge Hill University.

We've organised it around our research culture as embodied by our various and exciting research groups and centres.

Please share widely and get in touch with questions.

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #Litodon #Histodon #Victodon

https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/support/graduateschool/graduate-positions/english-language-literature-and-creative-writing/

I'm looking for novel coinages from "Mastodon,"—e.g., #histodon (historians) and #victodon (Victorian era). Any others?

#Introduction I'm a Victorianist who spends most of my time writing about nineteenth-century religious fiction. I tend to buy a lot of books. #Victodon

Here's more information about me: I work mainly on artistic genres and movements in the (long) #19thcentury, but I also have a strong interest in immersive, interactive, and participatory forms of contemporary #PopularCulture. Regardless of century, my focus is on frameworks, networks, reception, co-creation, and multimodality; unsurprisingly, the resulting projects tend to be interdisciplinary and often involve machine-assisted analyses.

#Victodon #VictorianStudies #DigitalHumanities

My mild obsession with #Mastodons continues with drawings illustrating arguments about the creature’s nature: tusks up like the elephant (suggesting a herbivore) or tusks down imagining a carnivorous killer! #Romantodon #Victodon #Histodon

Re#Introduction with hashtags! I’m a #Romantodon pretending to be a #Victodon because I like all the #dinosaurs - I work on #Romantic writers like #Wollstonecraft, #Austen, and #Coleridge and also enjoy #Gothic fiction and #ChildrensLiterature - currently I’m working on taking #RomanticStudies from the #sublime to the #ridiculous, as a way of thinking about crises of #nature, #society, and #childhood as #collectives rather than individuals - I still mostly toot #CatPics #CatsOfMastodon

Peale’s self-portrait ‘The Artist in His Museum’ (1822) is an early precursor of putting a content warning on your toot, offering a cheeky glimpse of the #Mastodon skeleton behind the curtain #MastodonsOfMastodon #Romantodon #Victodon

Reading up on Peale’s exhumation of the #Mastodon (for #MastodonsOfMastodon / #Victodon / #Romantodon content) and here’s a beautiful skeletal drawing by his son:

@degrootebrecht Congratulations! I have been mulling a # for Romantic Studies too - #Victodon works because it mirrors #Mastodon, right? I was wondering for #Keatsodon in that spirit but maybe too specific to one poet!?