Kate Mayfield

NEW ESSAY — Christine Jacobson’s “Typing for Love or Money”, on the neglected efforts of women like Theodora Bosanquet, Véra Nabokov, and Valerie Eliot, who — through their work as typists and editors — had a profound impact on modern literature: publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing...

Stripping away the sensationalism that surrounded these unimaginable crimes, AS IF by Blake Morrison, and THE CASE OF MARY BELL by Gitta Serena boldly and bravely sought answers to the questions the courts did not ask. #books

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You would not believe what merkan southerners do with coke and crisps. Think casseroles.

Ye gads. That’s awful and very sad. And sounds delicious.

Spoiled rotten with deco grandness!

Hamnet-ing at table lucky 13. #hamnet

Some homes hold their ghosts with quiet forbearance. They do not boast of their phantoms nor advertise for psychic researchers to poke and test them. They accommodate both living and dead residents, afford privacy to both sides. Places of gentle spectral tolerance. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Thank you again to @alcs.co.uk for championing authors’ works by collecting money from around the world when someone copies or uses our work. It’s payment day soon thanks to their achievements.

Very Crimey, Espionagey, Bookerey January so far.

Died #onthisday in 1834, Giovanni Aldini, the Italian "galvanist" whose experiments in animating the muscles of the dead with electricity inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Read more in our essay by Sharon Ruston: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...

Working on developing my goth radar system.

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Thank you, Chris! I know! Burgundy would have been preferred but I’m not complaining!

A new, light coloured notebook for old, dark stories.

Photographs of the Arctic in the 1880s by self-styled glaciologist, Frenchman Charles Rabot: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rabot-photographs-of-the-arctic

I was without The World Wide Web for 48 hours and it felt like 48 years. I lost my bearings and wondered if the microwave still worked. Could I still make coffee? Find food? When I woke up from the bad dream the world had tilted again.

I wish you all a good year. As you can see, I’m following the remarkably predictable Health and Wellbeing guidance for January with a bit of light reading and even lighter blackberry hazelnut meringue cake.

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Season’s greetings to everyone.

Most likely place to find a ghost on Christmas Eve:
The only surviving medieval wooden Watching Loft in England (c.14). Monastic officials conducted surveillance on pilgrims visiting the Shrine. #ghosts #ChristmasEve #history

Thank you, Dale. Merry Christmas to you! x

Bravo!

On a sweltering summer day years ago in Santa Monica, I found these vintage ornaments in their original 50’s boxes at an outdoor antique market. They’re all made of glass and it’s a miracle they’ve survived a couple of transatlantic moves. Meet Harriet, the tree that supports them. #WinterSolstice

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So happy to stand in a long queue at a bookshop teeming with people. #books #reading

Why, thank you. I think I’ll leave it all year round.

I stumbled into a fever dream.

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