Call for Nominations Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is very pleased to award the annual Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for a scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper and/or periodical press. All books exploring periodicals of the period are eligible (including single-author monographs, edited collections, and editions) as long as they have a publication date of 2008. The winner will receive a plaque and a monetary award of up to $3,000, and will be invited to speak at the RSVP conference at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis (21-22 August 2009). The prize was made possible by a generous gift by Vineta Colby in honor of Robert Colby, a long and devoted member of RSVP and a major scholar in the field of Victorian periodicals.

Previous winners of the Colby Prize are:
2008: Kathryn Ledbetter, Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (Ashgate).
2007: David Finkelstein, Ed., Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition (University of Toronto Press).
2005-2006: Linda Hughes, Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (Ohio University Press) and Peter Morton, The Busiest Man in London: Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 (Palgrave).

To nominate a book please email Kathryn Ledbetter (KLedbetter@txstate.edu) by December 1, 2008. Self-nominations are welcome.

Kathryn Ledbetter
Associate Professor of English
Editor, Victorian Periodicals Review
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
KLedbetter@txstate.edu