Rebecca Hamilton

Since I'm plastering it on every other form of social media, I've had my very first article published, so please give it a read :)

I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa1 about my time at @ChawtonHouse as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and highly amusing snippet from a woman's diary, click this link: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-i-spe…

Join us for a Halloween themed tea salon! Brew your favourite blend and engage in a lively evening of discussion, creativity, and Victorian charm. If you are a member, check your emails for event links. If you're not, sign up and you'll be sent all links: victorianpopularfiction.org/membership-joi…

New Blog post alert- 'Neo-Victorian Gothtober 2025' by Helena Esser. Some spooky neo-Vic gothic films and tv series recommendations for your Halloween watching pleasure! Read here: victorianpopularfiction.org/neo-victorian-…

Sign up to attend the VPFA's Third Sex Reading group's October session on Natasha Pulley's The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a neo-Victorian novel To sign up this month, please email vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com with 'FAO: Third Sex No. 43' and ask to be added to the attendee list

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🚨Call for Papers! ❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day 🗺️Loughborough University 📅27 March 2026 💷 FREE For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/forth… Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information.

Please allow me to recommend some summer reading, followed with an invitation to join our book discussion. Everybody is welcome so please share widely (this poster has the correct start time of 5.30pm!) The text and audiobook are available on Internet Archive/Gutenberg.

Unfortunately, the other presenters on this panel (Kailey Pire and Rida Leonard) have been unable to attend, so we are now having a Brontë-themed chat instead. Currently wondering, why DID Jane marry Rochester?? #VPFAExtremes

First on the gothic hauntings and true crime panel this morning we have Bart Mulderij examining depictions of the numinous in Arthur Machen’s fiction through the theories of German philosopher and theologian Rudolph Otto #VPFAExtremes

Now we have @BettyHagglund discussing the relationship between inner vision and bodily sight in The Adventures of Shiela Crerar, Psychic Detective (1920) by Ella M. Scrymsour, a text rooted in the Victorian period #VPFAExtremes

Shiela Crerar advertises her services in the ‘laying of ghosts’ in the newspaper. ‘Always psychic’, she gets to walk around London watching the events of past ages unfold before her. She finds that there’s quite a demand for her services! #VPFAExtremes

And rounding off this panel we have Gregory Brennen talking about the roots of true crime podcasts in Victorian popular fiction, focussing on how Serial (2014) uses the same narrative techniques as Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White (1859-60) #VPFAExtremes

The unprecedented popularity of the podcast Serial is closely linked to the producers’ unconscious debt to the seriality, narrative techniques and framing strategies pioneered by Victorian popular fiction #VPFAExtremes

Otto’s notion of the demonic helps to explain how Machen uses the numinous to evoke horror. The numinous becomes a site of terror and collapse as characters seek out otherworldly forces through transgressive means #VPFAExtremes

Peter wakes up and realises that the time travel is a dream. Smith suggests we can understand the text to be a time travel comedy with a didactic message. It is a text situated somewhere between Dickens and Wells, taking parts from didacticism and science fiction #VPFAExtremes

To date, Sarah Alexander is the only scholar to pay any critical attention to this novel - so Smith's research is extremely original! #VPFAExtremes

The final paper of the conference is Hayley Smith discussing Thomas Anstey Guthrie's Tourmalin’s Time Cheques as an early time travel narrative #VPFAExtremes

Next we have Marijke Vale, who is discussing the fascination with radium's rejuvenating properties that led it to be known as the “elixir of life” #VPFAExtremes

In the final science and imagination panel, Adam Baldwin is talking about tales of Venus. In these stories, the contemporary imperial assumption that other worlds are there to be conquered is subverted #VPFAExtremes

read the short story here and let us know if you have any thoughts on it: nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-ex… #VPFAExtremes

in the @ThirdSexVPFA conference session we were discussing Nebedita Sen's Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island. A very poignant commentary on literal, intellectual, cultural, and literary consumption #VPFAExtremes