The Birth and Growth of Victorian Periodicals Newsletter and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

[...]appeared, in January 1968, the first issue of the Victorian Periodicals Newsletter (VPN), containing some thirty articles, research notes, proposals, queries, and other miscellaneous editorial business from scholars who wished to share their research or learn from others in the field.3 No. 1, January 1968 The opening editorial comment in VPN briskly stated that up to that time almost no attention had been paid to Victorian periodical literature; there were no lists of titles, dissertations, authors, or locations of printed copies. [...]there was an important announcement of the forthcoming Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Meeting to be held in New York City on Sunday, December 29, 1968. [...]the contents of VPN were now divided between "Reports" and "Articles." [...]at the end of the issue was a list of some seventy-five booksellers, located all over Britain, who provided books and manuscript materials that would be useful to periodicals scholars.