Victorian Periodicals Review

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The only refereed journal that concentrates on the editorial and publishing history of Victorian periodicals. Submissions: https://rs4vp.org/vpr. Subscriptions: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/victorian-periodicals-review

Illustration of man waving a newspaper beside text that says: Deadline Extended to July 1; Victorian Periodicals Review is currently accepting essay submissions for two prizes: The VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The Expanding the Field Prize for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The winner for each prize will receive $500 and publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. Submissions should be emailed as an MS Word attachment to Katherine Malone, VPR Editor (vpr@rs4vp.org) by July 1, 2026.
The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The winner will receive $500 and publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. Deadline: June 15, 2026. For more information, visit rs4vp.org/awards/vanarsdel-prize
Left: Cover page of Waverley Magazine 5, no. 15 (October 9, 1852): 225; Right: Burgundy background with text that says: Anne McKee Stapleton, “Periodicals Published Under the Banner of Waverley,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, no. 3, Fall 2025
Left: decorative image of crumbling wall; Right: burgundy background with text that says: Joseph Brett-Demetre, “‘The Reward of Flunkeyism’: Diagnosing Class Treachery in Reynolds’s Newspaper,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, no. 3, Fall 2025
Left: burgundy background with text that says: Lauren Ottaviani, “‘Catching the right expression’: Amateur and Professional Women’s Photography in The Woman at Home, 1893–1918,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, no. 3, Fall 2025; Right: Magazine page with heading that says “Amateur Photograph of a Pretty Child: Prize Pictures” above a photograph of young girl looking to the side.
Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review 58.3, Fall 2025, showing photograph of a young girl titled “Amateur Photograph of a Pretty Child: Prize Pictures,” from Woman at Home 25 (August 1908): 439–42
On left, black-and-white illustration of a woman in profile reading a book. On right, text says: Interested in reviewing for VPR? Visit rs4vp.org/vpr to message our new Book Reviews Editor, Lauren Ottaviani.
On left, burgundy background with text that says: Sofie Vandepitte, “Images of Welsh Seaside Tourism in Punch, or the London Charivari, 1841–1900,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, illustration of crowded tourist spot titled “Mr. Punch Visits Scarborough Spa,” from Punch, or the London Charivari, October 10, 1891, 178, HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$c190182.
On left, burgundy background with text that says: Atul V. Nair, “Literary Evangelicalism: The Calcutta Review and the Imperial Anglophone Periodical Circuit,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, image of masthead followed by lead article of Calcutta Review 3, no. 5 (1845): 1, HathiTrust Digital Library, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000013013505.
On left, burgundy background with text that says: Kylee-Anne Hingston, “Blindness and Irish National Identity in the Textual Afterlife of F. W. Burton’s A Blind Girl at a Holy Well,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, The Blind Girl at the Holy Well, ca. 1869, print, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/2003674284.
On left, burgundy background with text that says: Amy Matthewson, “The Past in Present Knowledge: China in The Illustrated London News of 1842,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, color illustration titled “Portrait of Van-Ta-Zhin, a Military Mandarine (or Nobleman) of China,” from William Alexander, The Costume of China (London: W. Bulmer for W. Miller, 1805), 19. Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mqtz7ays.
Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025; covert art is “Portrait of a Soldier, in His Full Uniform.” William Alexander, The Costume of China (London: W. Bulmer for W. Miller, 1805), 83. Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/mqtz7ays.
Illustration of man waving newspaper above logo for Victorian Periodicals Review. Text says: We’re hiring an associate editor to oversee book reviews and assist the editor with content development. Applications are due December 15. For more information, visit: https://rs4vp.org/vpr-seeks-associate-editor
Front matter from The Bookseller, January 1858, accompanied by text that says: Rachel Calder, The Bookseller, the First Modern Trade Journal, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.
Front page of The Gartnavel Gazette; or Monthly Journal of the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum, Wednesday, July 6, 1853, image courtesy of Wellcome Collection, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jvk8aued/items?canvas=7. Accompanied by text that says: Mila Daskalova, Passing the Hours: Measuring, Recording and Experiencing Time Through Periodical Publishing in Victorian Asylums, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.
Illustration titled “Andhamunir Putraśok” from Sandeś 2, no. 1 (Baiśāk 1321/April–May 1914), courtesy of Jadavpur University Central Library, Kolkata. Image accompanied by text that says: Nilkantha Pal, Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and Vernacular Publishing, ca. 1880–1920, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.
Illustration for “The War of the Worlds” showing a man at a telescope, Pearson’s Magazine 3 (April 1897): 365. Accompanied by text that says: Adele Guyton, “A Certain Amount of Scientific Education”: Science, Sensation, and the Everyman Narrator in the Serialised War of the Worlds (1897), Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.
Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, spring 2025; burgundy background with illustration of alien aircraft from H. G. Wells's _The War of the Worlds_.
Background of gold stars with banner that says: Congratulations! 2025 VanArsdel Prize winner Yevhen Yashchuk, Wadham College, Oxford.
Illustration titled “Scenes in the Courtyard of the Tuileries,” from Illustrated London News, March 4, 1848, 139. Image shows drawing of a revolutionary mob carrying weapons, flag, drum, and wine bottles. Accompanied by text that says: Camille Stallings, “Seriality and Characterisation in the Press: Death Club Sensationalism, the 1848 Revolutions, and Reviews of Mary Barton,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.
Image of Charles Dickens seated at a table with books, ca. 1860.{{PD-US}} Accompanied by text that says: Anne-Marie Millim, “Crossing Currents: The Mother Tongue, Monolingualism, and Multilingualism in Household Words and All the Year Round,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.
Image of Temperance card from the tarot deck of Jean Dodal, a classic Tarot of Marseilles deck, ca. 1701-15.{{PD-US}} Accompanied by text that says: Annemarie McAllister, “Commercialised Temperance: The Phenomenon of the Temperance Companion and How It Stayed Afloat,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.
Image of an advertisement for The Adventures of Dora Bell, Detective, by Mrs. George Corbett, Author of “Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office,” &c. from the Fife Free Press and Kirkaldy Guardian, December 30, 1893. At center of ad is a head-and-shoulders sketch of Burgoyne Corbett. Accompanying text says: Sara Lodge, “Cash for Questions: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s Female Detectives, Journalism, and the Case of the Missing Income,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.
Full page from The Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, three-column layout with a black-and-white drawing of a plant in the center. Accompanying text says: Ali Hatapçı, “General News in Early and Mid-Victorian Class Periodicals: The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1841–70,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2024.
Cover of VPR 57.4, Special Issue: Currents and Currencies. Image credit: “The Revolution in France,” London Illustrated News, February 26, 1848, 118. Table of contents: Introduction Currents and Currencies in the Victorian Periodical Press VICTORIA CLARKE AND ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER Articles General News in Early and Mid-Victorian Class Periodicals: The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1841–70 ALI HATAPÇI Cash for Questions: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s Female Detectives, Journalism, and the Case of the Missing Income SARA LODGE Commercialised Temperance: The Phenomenon of the Temperance Companion and How It Stayed Afloat ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER Crossing Currents: The Mother Tongue, Monolingualism, and Multilingualism in Household Words and All the Year Round ANNE-MARIE MILLIM Seriality and Characterisation in the Press: Death Club Sensationalism, the 1848 Revolutions, and Reviews of Mary Barton CAMILLE STALLINGS Book Reviews Biographies Endnotes
Screenshot of One More Voice website, accompanied by text that says: Ava Bindas, Kenneth Crowell, Joanne Ruth Davis, Dino Franco Felluga, Jun Yi Goh, Cherrie Kwok, K. Marielle Morgan, Rebecca Nesvet, and Adrian S. Wisnicki, "COVE, One More Voice, and the Recovery of BIPOC Voices from Victorian Periodicals," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.
Screenshot of Victorian Short Fiction Project website, accompanied by text that says: Leslee Thorne-Murphy, "Experiential Learning and the Value of Novice Scholars: Victorian Short Fiction and the Periodical Market," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.
Cover of the Illustrated London News for August 15, 1857, with image of ships landing at Isle of Wight, accompanied by text that says: Iain Crawford, "Periodicals, Undergraduate Research, and Disciplinary Futures: The Promise of Course-Embedded Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs)," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.
Screenshot of students’ Perusall comments beside cover of The Yellow Book, accompanied by text that says: Madeline B. Gangnes, "Digital, Archival, and Collaborative Approaches in the Undergraduate Victorian Studies Classroom," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024
Cover of the Boy’s Own Paper for April 11, 1891, showing two boys fighting; accompanying text says: Melissa Free, "Undergraduate Research in Late Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Children’s Periodicals," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.
Screenshots of student-created social media for Lady Audley's Secret, accompanied by text that says: Megan Burke Witzleben, "Serial Readers: First-Year College Students Reimagine Lady Audley’s Secret," Victorian Periodicals Review, 57.3, Fall 2024.
Cover of VPR 57.3 Fall 2024 with illustration of teacher pointing student to book of ABC's.
Illustration of E. S. Dallas, accompanied by text that says GRAHAM LAW, The Other Besieged Residents: Dallas and Parkinson as Special Correspondents in Paris, 1870–71, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, Summer/Spring 2024.
Portrait of Mary Elizabeth Braddon in a black gown with red background, accompanied by text that says CARLEY ROBERTSON, Mary Elizabeth Braddon vs. the Pall Mall Gazette: Controlling and Exploiting the Boundaries of Editorial Identity, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, Summer/Spring 2024.
Image of article titled “The Copyright Case” in Sydney Evening News; accompanying text says CLARE BURNETT, “By Special Arrangement”: The Effects of Copyright on Nineteenth-Century Australian Newspaper Fiction Publishing, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, Summer/Spring 2024.
Illustration of Englishman carrying a Chinese man like a sack of mail, followed by title “Important News from China: Arrival of the Overland Mail,” from Punch, vol. 1, 1841; accompanying text says Tsz Ting Yan, Punch’s Writing of the Opium War (1839–42) and Its Chartist Intertext, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, Summer/Spring 2024.
Image of cover page to the Gentleman’s Magazine, volume 33, 1850, accompanied by text that says CAROLYN BETENSKY, E Pluribus Unum: The Miscellaneous Mid-Victorian Lives of Sylvanus Urban in the Gentleman’s Magazine, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, Summer/Spring 2024.
Image of front cover of Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory for 1898, accompanied by text that says MATTHEW STEPHENS, The Long and Short of It: Rethinking the Longevity of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals, Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 57, Numbers 1-2, Summer/Spring 2024.
Image of front page of Women’s Penny Paper for May 25, 1889, featuring an interview with Pandita Ramabai Saraswati and a black-and-white sketch of the reformer with her daughter.
Cover of VPR 57.1-2, burgundy background with photograph of Shevantibai Nikambe from a signed copy of her book, Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High Caste Hindu Young Wife (London: Marshall Brothers, 1895).