Dr Theadora Jean

At Haworth Parsonage there are badges with ‘Team Branwell’ on, and it’s like why? Give me one single reason why.

They talk to each other too and look after each other. This blew my mind when I found this out

Ah that’s so helpful to know! Thanks

Any chance of the video being uploaded soon? Would love to watch before submitting this week

“Frankenstein outsold all Percy’s work in his lifetime”

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I’m maybe a bit too much me and could do with taking a bit of a step back

Will have a look at By the Ionian Sea, it’s quite well regarded I think. Jubilee I read and enjoyed a lot, especially as I know the areas he describes eg Camberwell 🖤

On her deathbed, to her husband, Charlotte Brontë referring to God in saying “Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us. We have been so happy.”

Most tragic but beautiful thing to say possible 🖤

If you are looking for gothic romance this Valentine’s Day, this is a great place to start 🖤

For some reason even more funny that he sent messages like this to different people

Please

A lot of you are using "performative" to mean "as lip service" and the phrase lip service exists for that purpose.

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My favourite Dickens 📘📕📗

I feel like something that rarely gets brought up in Wuthering Heights discourse is that it’s the most beautifully written novel of the century. More like a prose poem with characters than any other novel of the period.

Thank you for making it accessible re online.

YES

I’m looking forward to having read them all and then circling back to The Italian and Udolpho, seeing what I think of them all in relation to each other. And very much looking forward to your expertise! 🖤

So am I! Really looking forward to spending proper time on Radcliffe. Reading A Sicilian Romance right now 🖤

Treated myself to this on Jan payday, very excited 🖤

Ruby by Rosa Guy (1991) springs to mind although not sure if it has a HEA - haven’t read it in a long time

Oh yes I see. I find he doesn’t really provide solutions, much more true to life in that way, things go on and people just muddle through. Will check out the MLQ essay, thank you

What’s the other one you’ve read?

I liked The Odd Women a lot, and The Nether-World too. The honeymoon of Pennyloaf and Bob was heartbreaking. I find his writing generally compelling but The Whirlpool I found misogynistic and pointless - odd that is it still in print compared to his many others.

I needed to read this today, thank you Alicia. 🖤

Yes I’ve noticed the same both in teaching and in my own studies. The tragedy is even women leading the module etc do this stuff.
I also have to say, whoever didn’t hire you for that particular module was clearly out of their mind.

Unbelievable

I guess if it’s it something youve thought about 🤷🏻‍♀️ trying to be generous here. The lack of attention to Aphra Behn does rile me though, and that is within the academy too tbf