Vanessa Smith

played by Jacob 'Heathcliff' Elordi....

Well I never! Hard 'g' makes much more sense for the residence of general Tilney!

So do I, but I didn't know there was uncertainty! What would be the alternative pronunciation?

Someone in my English class at school called it Northranger Abbey (loudly and repeatedly). She was trying to impress my (favourite) English teacher with having read outside the set text list, so I enjoyed that, in a bitchy Austenian way...

One of my favourite surprises: finding a token of a former reader in between the pages of a second-hand book

Hogg is its own kind of fun

There was a lot of #AcademicFreedom, good scholarship, and independent thought in German universities before Hitler. After Hitler had risen to power, many academics fled the country. Some resisted the Nazi regime and were persecuted. Most adapted to a new situation. Here are some examples. 1/n

Hello Bluesky! We at the NCRC read Nineteenth Century literature and are students of the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. A lot exciting stuff happens here, ranging from online, offline reading sessions with renowned experts, film screenings and much more.
Happy reading!

I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget

and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education

Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities

ableist as well as sexist...😒

😂

I loved this- thanks for sharing.

Sydney - city & nature
This grand spectacle & everyday experience all free & all yours
#publicsydney

Me, I'm so bored having to teach these novels to students who used to say 'Rochester's so dark and hot' and have now 'advanced' to 'He gaslighted her'. Everyone's still reading like Jane's their best friend- and that's either the novel's power, or a problem that persists whatever hindsight we claim.

I've loved this poem for a long time, and I love finding it in my feed

Flaubert, Trois Contes
Werfel, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
Turner, Seven Little Australians

university buildings at sunset

Gothic sunset for Gothic novel teaching week.

OMG! Pufnstuff!

Yes, and no. So moving. They play the same reels in the Maresfield Gardens Freud museum in London.

Or the Emperor's Tomb is a good follow up to Radetzky...

Job!

My favourite novel!

Also, the Zentralfriedhof is worth a visit, while humming the theme from the Third Man. And the Freud museum, obvs. And the Strudlhofstiege!

I would say take a tram to Grinzing and a bus up the Kahlenberg, then walk back down through the wienerwald and vineyards and with luck there will be an impromptu Heuriger and you can have a lovely glass of Grüner Veltliner among the vines. At night, have Buchteln and hot chocolate at Hawelka.

But wins the one word game...

Charlotte Bronte, Villette

I love this too. Decided to read a recent translation to accompany this Briggs reading project, and chose The Strudlhof Steps, (von Doderer, trans. Vincent Kling). I have quite a few quibbles with the translation, but the book is thick as a brick and will keep me company for many, many weeks...

ah, a familiar fave!

Thanks! I hope so too!