BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2026.

The 2026 BAVS-Rosemary Mitchell Book Prize for a Second Monograph in Victorian Studies has been awarded to Prof Stephanie O’Rourke for Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction (Chicago UP 2025)

Annually, the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) awards the Rosemary Mitchell Book Prize to the best second monograph published that year in Victorian studies. The prize is judged by a panel of BAVS scholars. Unlike other book prizes, this is specifically intended to honour the work of mid-career Victorianists in all disciplines who publish a monograph over the past year. The Prize is intended to draw the attention of the Victorian Studies community to important new work in the field and also represents a celebration of the monograph as a form. 

In Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction, O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution.