#MVSA2024 continues with Kate Nesbit’s discussion of bell pulls and class anxiety in gothic fiction, drawing initially on Eliot’s “Lifted Veil.”

Kathleen McGowan kicks off #MVSA2024 panel 2B with a discussion of Girton College music societies.

#MVSA2024 - Alyssa Johnson leads off panel 1C discussing Marryat’s 1897 _The Blood of the Vampire_: Harriet’s vampirism is “entangled with race”. Despite her own ambivalence, Harriet “drains energy” from others as a form of inherited parental sin.

After technical difficulties, Athria Mohan shares with us the importance of chromolithography revolutionized #C19#MVSA2024 team for troubleshooting such that Mohan could share her scholarship with us!

#MVSA2024 - fascinated to learn about the travels of Ida Pfeiffer in Kristine Swenson’s plenary roundtable talk.

The #MVSA2024@mvsa.bsky.social. Some fabulous papers on offer; is it April yet‽ My to-do list also now includes finding a new pair of dancing shoes for the Saturday night Victorian dancing event. {My old pair disappeared pre-pandemic and, well, I've been distracted.}