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PhD Candidate in English Literature and Cultural Studies MA in English Literary and Cultural Studies and Their Social Projection at the UNED Master thesis about Salem Witchcraft and Anglo-American literature. Beginner Witch. From Madrid, Spain.

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Para mí un genocidio es la matanza masiva de seres humanos indefensos. Sean cuales sean las razones, venga de donde venga la matanza y la perpetre quien la perpetre. Lo de Hamas es terrorismo. Lo de Israel contra Gaza es un GENOCIDIO. Punto.

05.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Una conversación y una taza de té – Presentación Austenitas
YouTube video by Egregius Una conversación y una taza de té – Presentación Austenitas

Muchas gracias a Carmen Romero y Almudena Romero por haber presentado su libro Austenitas en el congreso #Anglistics hoy. Puedes ver la presentación en www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehd9...
www.anglistics.org
edicioneslastarria.es/producto/aus...

25.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Desde Pemberley a Talavera de la Reina: una tarde con Jane Austen | Extensión Universitaria en Talavera de la Reina | UNED Página web de Actividades y cursos de la UNED

Desde Pemberley a Talavera de la Reina, actividad presencial y online (en directo o diferido) en @unedtalavera.bsky.social gracias al programa Humanidades a Corta Distancia de la @unedfilo.bsky.social
extension.uned.es/actividad/id...
#Austen

25.09.2025 10:45 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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2026 Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar SAAS Young Scholars takes over Madrid! We are extremely excited to share that SAAS Young Scholars will celebrate its 2026 doctoral seminar in March 12-13! We will have the pleasure to host II Félix…

@saas-yscholars.bsky.social
2026 Félix Martín Doctoral Seminar – SAAS Young Scholars share.google/iuLzilNIeR7b...

25.09.2025 21:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

#CallforPapers for a #Gothic talk series
deadline for application: 20 December, 2025

#cfp #GothicStudies

08.09.2025 09:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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😍📢Excited to launch our IV In Conversation Series, online interview-format sessions where we discuss key texts with experts in US studies.
🔗Link, materials, and attendance certificate provided upon registration at: reading.saas.ys@gmail.com
💻 + Info: shorturl.at/ISjHg

05.09.2025 17:53 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Hoy ha salido a la venta mi nueva novela juvenil #MiTíaJane, en @anayainfantil. Estoy muy, muy contenta. Ojo, profes y docentes varios, y aficionadas a #JaneAusten. ¡Durante la semana que viene os hablaré de ella!

04.09.2025 19:17 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1
Background is Regency era wallpaper. A gold frame with a faint beige-yellow background sits in the middle. In the frame it says, "What was the role of women in Regency and Victorian societies?"

Background is Regency era wallpaper. A gold frame with a faint beige-yellow background sits in the middle. In the frame it says, "What was the role of women in Regency and Victorian societies?"

How many dissertations have been written about this? (Answer: Probably a lot.)

05.09.2025 19:33 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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2 literary fictions about the #SalemWitchTrials
-Dorcas Good: The Diary of A Salem Witch by Rose Earhart.
I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé
#LiteratureSky

01.09.2025 10:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Upcoming Events — Partnership of Historic Bostons New England, black history, new england art

Upcoming Events — Partnership of Historic Bostons share.google/UDuMqFc2DTfR...

31.08.2025 20:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I'll be having two discussions on New England witch hunts with Sarah Jack & Josh Hutchinson of End Witch Hunts.
"The Other: Understanding Witch Hunts" Sep. 8, 7pm
"Resistance: Stopping Witch Hunts" Sep. 22, 7pm
Hosted by the Partnership for Historic Bostons: historicbostons.org/upcomingevents

29.08.2025 19:34 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

On August 19, 1692, George Burroughs, George Jacobs, John Willard, John Procter & Martha Carrier were executed for witchcraft in Salem.

20.08.2025 20:59 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Salem 1692 and after: 17th Century witchcraft in 19th Century Anglo-American historical fiction The Salem witchcraft crisis in 1692 was a historical event with remarkable social, political, and religious repercussions which affected the future and the formation of what would be the new American ...

My Master thesis has been published at the UNED repository with the title "Salem 1692 and After: 17th-century Witchcraft in 19th-century Anglo-American Fiction" @depextranjerasuned.bsky.social hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468...

16.07.2025 15:44 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Our Founding Mothers and Fathers: Revolutionary War Connections to the Salem Witch Trials - Salem Witch Museum The American Ancestors organization once estimated 15 million people can trace their family line back to the Salem witch trials. We often tell visitors that the English colonists of 1692...

Thank you to everyone who attended last night's event "Our Founding Mothers and Fathers: Revolution War Connection to the Salem Witch Trials." The recording is now available on our website's program archive and our YouTube channel.

#salemwitchtrials #history #revolutionarywar #rev250

08.08.2025 15:38 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Sepia photograph of horse-drawn streetcar parked outside of church

Sepia photograph of horse-drawn streetcar parked outside of church

In a new bonus episode of "The Object of History" podcast, we’ll dive deeper into the history of Boston's Back Bay and take a walking tour of the neighborhood.

Listen on your favorite streaming platform or on our website: www.masshist.org/.../season-4...

15.08.2025 19:44 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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"Somos mucho más hábiles para fabricar distopías, que para buscar utopías. Porque somos más hábiles para crear el infierno que para inventar el cielo".
Margaret Atwood

14.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 121    🔁 38    💬 0    📌 2
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Dorchester has been added to our #WitchTrials Online Sites Tour! Originally founded as its own city, today Dorchester is Boston's largest neighborhood. It was here that William Stoughton, the Chief Justice of both #Salem witch trials courts lived in 1692. Head over to our website to learn more!

09.08.2025 21:24 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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La única trinchera que salva personas y construye mundos.

13.08.2025 08:16 — 👍 206    🔁 60    💬 5    📌 1

Gracias a usted, Rafael. Sus libros son una fuente de inspiración para mí. Un saludo.

13.08.2025 12:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Puritanism, Witchcraft, and Early America in:
Emerson W. Baker's The Devil of Great Island @emersonwbaker.bsky.social
and Carmen Gómez Galisteo's Early Visions and Representations of America @mcarmengg.bsky.social
2 new books for my PhD.

11.08.2025 10:16 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#OTD August 5, 1692 in Salem, Reverend George Burroughs was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death for witchcraft.

06.08.2025 00:07 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

#OTD August 6, 1692, in Andover 10 year old Sarah Phelps becomes afflicted by specters.

06.08.2025 15:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one? Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.

Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?

By Adam J Smith

Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.

theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

Jane Austen at PG
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

06.08.2025 17:21 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1
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#OTD August 2, 1692, the third session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer begins in Salem with Martha Carrier's trial.

02.08.2025 14:48 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

#OTD August 1, 1692, two days after Mary Toothaker’s confession that "the devil appeared to her in the shape of a Tawny man and promeised to keep her from the Indians," her Billerica neighborhood was subject to a Native American raid.

02.08.2025 02:47 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Los conceptos de serenidad y felicidad a través de la filosofía occidental a lo largo de los siglos. Breve revisión de los libros: Historia de la serenidad de Antonio Ballesteros y Maestros de la feli... La incansable búsqueda de la serenidad y la felicidad ha sido siempre un camino difícil para el ser humano, y una meta ardua, que muy pocos han alcanzado a plenitud. Además, a lo largo de los siglos, ...

En Libernautas escribo una reseña sobre 2 libros q merece la pena leer en tiempos de crisis existenciales: Historia de la serenidad, de Antonio Ballesteros y Maestros de la felicidad, de Rafael Narbona @rafaelnarbona.bsky.social
libernautas.hypotheses.org/3225

01.08.2025 17:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
SWP No. 016: Mary Bradbury - New Salem - Pelican

#OTD July 28 1692, Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury defends his wife Mary against charges of witchcraft: "wee have been maried fifty five yeare: and shee hath bin a loveing & faithfull wife to mee, unto this day shee hath been wonderfull laborious dilligent & Industryous in her place and imployment."

28.07.2025 20:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Benjamin Franklin, painted by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis

Benjamin Franklin, painted by Joseph Siffrein Duplessis

26 JULY 1775, PHILADELPHIA: The Second Continental Congress create an intercolonial postal service and appoint as postmaster general Benjamin Franklin, who previously served the imperial government as deputy postmaster general for North America for twenty years.

26.07.2025 17:12 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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En recuerdo y homenaje a la gran Ana María Matute, de cuyo nacimiento se cumple hoy un siglo: "Hay que inventar la vida porque acaba siendo verdad".

26.07.2025 15:30 — 👍 97    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 1

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