And this is a chattier, longer version: serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/the-art-of...
#taylorswift #thelifeofashowgirl #elizabethsiddal #preraphaelites #shakespeare
03.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Elizabeth Siddall's Trees
Some reflections for National Poetry Day
Thinking about the #preraphaelite poems of #ElizabethSiddal, and #trees, since it's #NationalPoetryDay. Conclusion: trees are good for you; so is #poetry. serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/elizabeth-...
02.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Part of our extensive Poetry collection for National Poetry Day. It's impossible to choose just one poem for everyone, so come along and browse our shelves.
#nationalpoetryday #poems #birmingham
02.10.2025 11:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I finally went to see Black Sabbath - The Ballet last weekend; here's what I thought of it #ballet #Birmingham #BlackSabbath
I am totally in love with this publicity image!
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26.09.2025 09:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
St Michael's and All Angels in Stoke Prior, near Bromsgrove. I love lighted windows at twilight!
26.09.2025 06:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A beautiful #Autumn evening in #Worcestershire
25.09.2025 18:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm glad you approve! It was perfect summer reading and now I'm making my friends read it!
25.09.2025 18:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm so glad it was such a positive experience! Lovely to meet you in person.
21.09.2025 18:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
May Morris is having a moment
Visiting the exhibition in Bournemouth
May Morris is having a moment. But you probably knew that. @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social #preraphaelitewomen #artsandcrafts
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18.09.2025 19:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
Thinking about best-beloved books from childhood
Reading about reading is always fun, and this history of childhood reading has sent me back to some old favourites. serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/the-haunte...
#books #bookreview #amreading #childrensbooks
12.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'The Spirit of Britain' in Pre-Raphaelite paintings
Please don't take this too seriously.
Inspired by a debate about Spain’s most significant paintings, this is my Pre-Raphaelite version. Feel free to disagree with me! serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/the-spirit... @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social #preraphaelite #art #preraphaelitewomen
05.09.2025 08:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now?
Free event, features new research on Pre-Raphaelitism to consider the future of the field, particularly for doctoral researchers/academics.
A quick reminder that if you'd like to come to my Pre-Raphaelite symposium on Sept 20th you need to book soon! www.eventbrite.com/e/why-does-p... #preraphaelite #conference @preraphsrule.bsky.social @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
03.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Constant Wife
Drawing-room comedy with a sharp edge
Saw #RoseLeslie in #TheConstantWife at the #RSC a few weeks ago - a most entertaining evening! serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/the-consta... #theatre
20.08.2025 16:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Calling all Pre-Raph researchers: event Sept 20th in Birmingham to bring together doctoral students & academics, curators & writers to share their research & discuss 'Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now?' tinyurl.com/mrxs4cr5
#preraphaelite #art #victorian #literature @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
07.08.2025 15:17 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Visiting William Morris (or one of his houses, anyway)
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#WilliamMorris @williammorrissocuk.bsky.social
31.07.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Birds in art
Penlee House Gallery's exhibition is a joy
Reflecting on birds @penleehousegallery.bsky.social serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/birds-in-art - painting by Charles W Simpson, #seagull painter extraordinaire! #art #exhibitions #painting #birds #Cornwall
21.07.2025 11:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some #stonecircle #mythology today, reflecting on the #MerryMaidens in #Cornwall - read the legends here: serenatrowbridge.substack.com/.../stories-....
10.07.2025 07:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Highly recommended - a short review of Glenda Youde's fabulous book! serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/beyond-oph...
#Preraphaelite #ElizabethSiddal #womenartists #victorian @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
03.07.2025 10:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
'One Sea-Side Grave'
Christina Rossetti and Charles Bagot Cayley: quite a sad story.
A follow-up to my previous #Hastings post - Christina Rossetti's poem about Charles Cayley's grave, which we eventually found!
#PreRaphaelite #ChristinaRossetti #poetry
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30.06.2025 10:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
24.06.2025 10:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Super excited to be organising a symposium on 'Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now?' Looking for postgrad/postdoc papers on current research
blog.bham.ac.uk/19cc/2025/06...
Or you can just come along and lie around like a Burne-Jones maiden
#preraphaelite #postgraduate #nineteenthcenturystudies
24.06.2025 10:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
So proud of my PhD student, @alexxr97.bsky.social , for passing her viva today. It's been a great pleasure to supervise such interesting work.
23.06.2025 16:05 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Bloomsberries at home
Visiting Charleston and not wanting to leave.
Visiting Charleston and not wanting to leave... #Bloomsbury #VanessaBell #VirginiaWoolf #art #writing serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/the-blooms...
22.06.2025 10:15 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Emma Sandys is in my garden, looking at the flowers
Not literally, unfortunately.
More wild speculations on Pre-Raphaelite paintings, this time in the garden. serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/emma-sandy...
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
#preraphaelite #womenartists #flowers #mythology
18.06.2025 09:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finding the #PreRaphaelites in #Hastings. Honestly, they get everywhere.
hhttps://serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/finding-the-pre-raphaelites-in-hastings
13.06.2025 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Writer, frustrated lawyer, unapologetic #feminist & wannabe academic - #interdisciplinary researcher of #victorianwomen & #shakespeare Kellogg College, Oxford she/her 🏳️🌈
In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, and other books & journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
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I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
SFF, gothic, time&gender&history, Victoriana. Time travelling women historians are my jam.
UEA History, sometimes UEA LDC. FHEA, Expat PA/VA. Wrangler of academics, books, & words. Sometime flutist. #wiasn Views own; she/her.
Linking scholarship, teaching, and learning since 1994
The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
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A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Discover 3 fantastic museums:
🎨 Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
🏰 County Museum at Hartlebury Castle
👑 The Commandery & 💫 Escape Room: Commandery Quest
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sublime seeking
pre-raphaelite dreaming
Art writing, curating & consulting. Author of MUSE (Vintage, 2022) and This Book Will Make You An Artist (Nosy Crow, 2024).
Pre-Raphaelite art and Arts & Crafts ceramics by Victorian artists, Evelyn and William De Morgan.
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Art historian, author, lemon-drizzle queen and Fanny Cornforth's Ride or Die. Author of 'Pre-Raphaelite Girl Gang,' 'Stunner:The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth' and 'Light and Love,' and a couple of novels.
Author of the occasional book about literature and the biological sciences. Out now: ‘We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us’.
Account of the internationally recognised Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-directed by @helenkingstone.bsky.social, Izzy Barrett-Lally and Heathcliff Newman
Author, photographer, pen nerd, Twitter refugee. Most recent books: *Lopapeysa* w/ Joan Dark, *The (mostly) Complete Poems of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal* & *This is Only Earth, My Dear* - ElizabethSiddal.com - Repped by Gordon Warnock / Fuse Literary
Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online.
Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6
