Editor’s Note

A diversely fashionable troupe of interpretive subjects awaits readers of volume 51 of the Victorians Institute Journal. Articles on Japanese acrobats, fictionalized Gypsies, and an Indian Cinderella share these pages with maternal and sartorial approaches to the New Woman, and reflections on anthropocentrism and queer ecology in the 1860s.The two projects profiled in the Digital Deliverables section, At the Circulating Library and Yellow Nineties 2.0, promise users productively different points of entry to the history of Victorian publishing. The former aspires to be a comprehensive bibliography of the Victorian novel in its myriad volume and serial forms, whereas the latter digitally curates eight “little magazines” that together herald key innovations in fin de siècle periodicals.The Texts section features a continuation of Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann’s Brogede Rejsebilleder (1881), which describes her 1869–70 visit to Constantinople. The selection introduced and translated for volume 51 follows Jerichau-Baumann into the harem of fifteen-year-old Princess Nazlı Hanım, offering a fascinating contrast to the public spaces explored in the preceding chapters, which appeared in the previous volume of VIJ.Finally, seven reviews of recent monographs and edited collections testify to the ongoing breadth of topics and approaches in Victorian and Edwardian studies.