UPDATE: New York State English Council's The English Record has
extended the submission date for papers on the topic: Testing, Testing,
1...2...3 until 6.1.2006.

Jennifer Roy
Editor, The English Record
jennifer.roy_at_wappingersschools.org

Contributions are invited for a proposed collection of essays on Victorian women poets and marriage with
the working title Victorian Women Poets and the Problem of Marriage. Victorian female poets�
perspectives on the institution of marriage and on the problem of balancing the demands of marriage and
the artist�s life are important but have not been adequately explored. Of course, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning certainly raises precisely these issues in Aurora Leigh, but many other female poets of the
nineteenth century concerned themselves with these same issues and resolved them in different ways,
sometimes choosing not to marry (Christina Rossetti and Adelaide Proctor), sometimes marrying with

Contributions are invited for a proposed collection of essays on Victorian women poets and marriage with
the working title Victorian Women Poets and the Problem of Marriage. Victorian female poets�
perspectives on the institution of marriage and on the problem of balancing the demands of marriage and
the artist�s life are important but have not been adequately explored. Of course, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning certainly raises precisely these issues in Aurora Leigh, but many other female poets of the
nineteenth century concerned themselves with these same issues and resolved them in different ways,
sometimes choosing not to marry (Christina Rossetti and Adelaide Proctor), sometimes marrying with

Contributions are invited for a proposed collection of essays on Victorian women poets and marriage with
the working title Victorian Women Poets and the Problem of Marriage. Victorian female poets�
perspectives on the institution of marriage and on the problem of balancing the demands of marriage and
the artist�s life are important but have not been adequately explored. Of course, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning certainly raises precisely these issues in Aurora Leigh, but many other female poets of the
nineteenth century concerned themselves with these same issues and resolved them in different ways,
sometimes choosing not to marry (Christina Rossetti and Adelaide Proctor), sometimes marrying with

Velvet Light Trap
Issue #60 Documentary Now

Building on the success of the international First World War and Popular Culture conference (University of Newcastle, 2006), we are seeking submissions for contributions to the several publications emerging from the debates at this event. Conference delegates are already submitting revised abstracts - we now welcome submissions from those unable to join us.

Building on the success of the international First World War and Popular Culture conference (University of Newcastle, 2006), we are seeking submissions for contributions to the several publications emerging from the debates at this event. Conference delegates are already submitting revised abstracts - we now welcome submissions from those unable to join us.

Call for Papers

DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!

Medievalism Transformed:
Imagining the Medieval World

An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference,3 June 2006.

Submissions due 8 May, 2006.

Your proposal for a 20-minute paper should be no longer than 300 words. Please
make submissions electronically to medievalismtransformed_at_bangor.ac.uk by 8
May 2006. Proposals should be accompanied by your name, institutional
affiliation, email address, and contact information.

Call for Papers

DEADLINE EXTENDED!!!

Medievalism Transformed:
Imagining the Medieval World

An interdisciplinary postgraduate conference,3 June 2006.

Submissions due 8 May, 2006.

Your proposal for a 20-minute paper should be no longer than 300 words. Please
make submissions electronically to medievalismtransformed_at_bangor.ac.uk by 8
May 2006. Proposals should be accompanied by your name, institutional
affiliation, email address, and contact information.

***deadline extended***

NON-ARCHIVED: BALKAN MODERNISMS

Dear Subscribers:

I need one more paper for a panel on "Henry James and Women Writers" for the Midwest MLA in Chicago, Nov. 9-12, 2006. Abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted by May 12 at the very latest to gmurphy_at_ccny.cuny.edu.

Thank you,
Geraldine Murphy

Dear Subscribers:

I need one more paper for a panel on "Henry James and Women Writers" for the Midwest MLA in Chicago, Nov. 9-12, 2006. Abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted by May 12 at the very latest to gmurphy_at_ccny.cuny.edu.

Thank you,
Geraldine Murphy

"Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in Britain, France, and
Beyond"

The Bibliographical Society of America invites proposals for papers to
be delivered at "Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in
Britain, France, and Beyond," a conference on book history to be held
in New York on 29-31 March 2007.

Calls for Papers: Caribbean Literature: Racialized Voices, Hybridized
Identities

We invite essays on the diasporic implications of multiracial and
multicultural characters and their hybrid cultural consciousness in
Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean texts. The site of the diasporic cultures
may be in the Caribbean itself or in transnational locations--in the
Metropole or in the various sites of migration common to Caribbean nationals.