In the Bleak Midwinter
Celebrating Christina Rossetti on her birthday
Celebrating #ChristinaRossetti on her 195th birthday by looking at settings of her poem ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’. serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/in-the-ble...
#poetry #choralmusic #preraphaelite #christmas
05.12.2025 11:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I love this!
03.12.2025 15:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
Poems containing prompts for harmful content prove effective at duping large language models
I always knew poetry was dangerous (in a good way) but now it seems it's dangerous in other ways! Honestly though, would you believe what an AI told you about nuclear secrets?!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
02.12.2025 08:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Christmas Carol at Bracken Dene
Time to get festive with Arthur Hughes
For the first day of Advent, here's a #Preraphaelite Christmas carol. You can even read the music - 'Good Christian Men Rejoice' (although there is no key signature).
serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/a-christma...
#advent #christmas #music #birmingham @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
01.12.2025 06:38 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pre-Raphaelite stained glass: Florence Camm
Dante and Beatrice: The Wedding Feast
Celebrating 140 years of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery by looking at amazing work by Florence Camm, comparing it to #Rossetti and wondering about a tiny homage to Burne-Jones #birmingham #stainedglass #preraphaelite @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/pre-raphae...
28.11.2025 16:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A mysterious Lady Holding a Rose
I always come back to Emma Sandys!
Pre-Raphaelite painter Emma Sandys died on this day in 1877, aged 36. Here's a sneak preview of my research on her, about 'Lady holding a Rose' (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery) serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/a-mysterio...
#preraphaelite #womenartists #birmingham
21.11.2025 09:43 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Paolo and Francesca by Alexander Munro
Preserving a moment in marble
More close looking at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's
Pre-Raphaelite works, this time thinking about Alexander Munro's Paolo and Francesca serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/paolo-and-...
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social #preraphaelite #art #sculpture #dante #nineteenthcentury #birmingham
19.11.2025 20:44 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Joanna Boyce's Portrait of Samuel Naylor, 1855
The man who flirted with Goethe's daughter-in-law!
Fascinated by this portrait by Joanna Boyce - more thoughts on it here serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/joanna-boy... #preraphaelite #preraphaelitesisters #portrait
12.11.2025 21:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enjoying 'An English Autumn Afternoon'
Looking closely at Ford Madox Brown's painting
Looking closely at Pre-Raphaelite paintings at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, starting with Ford Madox Brown’s ‘An English Autumn Afternoon’ with its portals into other worlds!
serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/enjoying-a...
#Birmingham #PreRaphaelite #Autumn
09.11.2025 21:26 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Call for papers for my latest project - 'Gothic Pre-Raphaelitism': serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/gothic-pre...
Please share with anyone who may be interested!
#gothic #preraphaelite #preraphaelitism @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
09.11.2025 19:59 — 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
If you've been pondering doing a #PhD on #Preraphaelite literature and/or #Gothic (as Jane Morris clearly is here), do get in touch - at Birmingham City University we have funded studentships for UK applicants in English&Media; more info here www.bcu.ac.uk/research/doc... #phdfunding #doctoralstudy
23.10.2025 18:24 — 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrating May Morris's writing
Two plays by May Morris that are sadly overlooked
Marking 87 years since the death of May Morris today by looking at her plays. serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/celebratin...
#MayMorris #WilliamMorris #PreRaphaelite #womenswriting #playwriting @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
17.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 — 👍 4 🔁 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!
serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/black-sabb...
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 — 👍 3 🔁 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
serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/may-morris...
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 — 👍 2 🔁 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
Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
@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/
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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
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A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
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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.
Professor, teacher, and author of the odd book about literature and the biological sciences. Latest: ‘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
