The Victorian Review Editorial Team is pleased to recognize excellence in Victorian scholarship with the Surridge Prize, formerly the Editor’s Prize, awarded annually to the best article published in the journal. The prize is valued at $500 CAD.
The winning article is selected by members of the Editorial Team and the winner is announced at the annual meeting of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada. All articles published in the journal in the year are considered in the Surridge Prize competition. The Surridge Prize is named in honour of the effort and achievements of Lisa Surridge, editor of the Victorian Review from 2007 to 2016.
To submit an article to the journal, please visit the submissions page.
Surridge Prize Winners
2024: Matthew Skwiat, “Feeling History: Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, and the Melodramatic Mode”
2023: Sarah Scaturro, “‘Penitential and Self-Mortifying’: Mourning Crape in Fashion”
2022: Jill Galvan, “Love’s Story Ontology: Species Feeling in New Grub Street”
2021: Anna Berman, “The Problem with Brothers in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel”
2020: No award given.
2019: Lisa Hager, “A Case for a Trans Studies Turn in Victorian Studies: ‘Female Husbands’ of the Nineteenth Century”
2018: Doreen Thierauf, “Daniel Deronda, Marital Rape, and the End of Reproduction”
2017: Deborah Lutz, “Emily Brontë’s Paper Work”
2016: Aviva Briefel, “Spectral Matter: The Afterlife of Clothes in the Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story”
2015: Ann-Marie Dunbar, “Making the Case: Detection and Confession in Lady Audley’s Secret and The Woman in White”
2014: Holly Furneaux, “Children of the Regiment: Soldiers, Adoption, and Military Tenderness in Victorian Culture”
2013: Sarah Bull, “Purveyor of Garbage? Charles Carrington and the Marketing of Sexual Science in Late-Victorian Britain”
