Emma Butler-Way

Search result for 'lord byron' showing John Polidori's 'The Vampyre; a Tale' as the top result

I never expected Project Gutenberg to be the deliverer of such a thrill. Lord Byron would be *fuming*...

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Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is amazing. What a spectacular film, and adaptation. A work of art. Costumes: amazing. Visuals: stunning. Heart and soul of the book? Firmly in place. My emotions? All over the place. So many tears. Exquisite stuff, cannot recommend highly enough.

YouTube video by Llyfrgell Genedlaethol - National Library of Wales Witsh: In Conversation with Mari Ellis Dunning

A pleasure & a privilege to have helped my good friend @mariellisdunning.bsky.social launch her debut novel WITSH last week in the Drwm @librarywales.bsky.social, mere hours after Aber was announced as Wales's first UNESCO City of Literature!
Missed out? ⬇️
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Really looking forward to this evening's launch at @librarywales.bsky.social 📚✨

Tickets have flown & while I'm a tad nervous to be addressing The Drwm after attending so many events there, I can't wait to chat about Welsh witshes, spells, superstition, religion & misogyny.

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Agree with the Jane Eyre suggestions - but would also suggest The Woman in White, particularly in terms of the relationship between it and neo-Vic fiction in a generic/literary sense (see Cox 2019, for example)?

📖 A haunting novel inspired by the largely unknown history of Welsh witchcraft has been published by one of our lecturers.

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@mariellisdunning.bsky.social
#novel #history #wales #witchcraft

Why we keep hunting ghosts – and what it says about us From Victorian séances to TikTok, our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.

👻 Writing in The Conversation, Dr Alice Vernon from the Department of English & Creative Writing discusses how our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.

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@alicevernon10.bsky.social
#ghosts #ghosthunting #supernatural

This was a super encouraging read - I am *so* excited about this adaptation!

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

Alice Vernon launches Ghosted | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Alice Vernon launches Ghosted today.

And after that, I'm hot-footing it down the hill to Waterstones, trying to avoid being waylaid by ghosts with unfinished business at crossroads, to chat to @alicevernon10.bsky.social about her new book, GHOSTED. Will I be able to sleep afterwards? Who knows...
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I'm very much looking forward to my busy Halloween night this year. First up, chatting to @mariellisdunning.bsky.social at the National Library of Wales about her haunting debut novel, WITSH, set in C16th Wales during the Welsh witch trials...
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Alice Vernon launches Ghosted | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Alice Vernon launches Ghosted today.

I'm doing a book launch for Ghosted at Waterstones Aberystwyth on Halloween night at 7pm. It's going to be a spooky evening!

Info and tickets: www.waterstones.com/events/alice...

What a joy it was getting this page ready to go! All the thanks to @helenaesser.bsky.social for the material!

Here we'll have reflections, contemplations, speculations and more (all of a Victorian/neo-Victorian nature, of course).

Interested in contributing? Follow the link below & get in touch!

There are, I think, few things as humbling as the automatic captions to a lecture that reveal just how often you say 'Um'...
Oh, and Panopto has spoken: my name is now, apparently, Emma Holloway...

Want to try something new? I'm running #Writing Women again through Aberystwyth Uni's Lifelong Learning.

✶ Online course
✶ Self-paced
✶ One to one feedback
✶ Expert guidance

Here's the link to my course, & there are heaps of others to choose from too!

www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...

#WritingSky

Happy publication day to Ghosted! This book was so much fun to research and write, and I can't wait to go on a ghost hunt again.

Thank you to everyone who's ordered a copy! I hope you enjoy reading it...with all the lights on, obviously. 👻

(Note: video plays crackling static sound)

Reflections on Leaving Salaried Academia My tenure as full-time Professor of English at the University of Greenwich ends today (31 August 2025). Inevitably, I find myself reflecting on what the institution and I have given each other. Wha…

Reflections on leaving salaried academia: lessons I've learned.

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I'll be running Writing Women again in the new semester through Aberystwyth University's Lifelong Learning.

✶ Online course
✶ Self-paced
✶ One to one feedback
✶ Expert guidance

Here's the link to my course, but there are heaps of others to choose from too!

www.aber.ac.uk/en/lifelong-...

A banner advertising my book Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking. A spooky candle is in one corner, and an upside-down crucifix in the other, with the tagline: 'A social, historic and scientific exploration of our fascination with the paranormal.'

Ghosted is published in one month! It's all getting very exciting. Bev the Haunted Doll is positively crawling the walls.

No, really. She's crawling up the walls. Send help.

Pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ghosted-9...

Letter from Gaza: “What I feel isn’t just hunger. It’s slow, internal erosion” This famine is an engineered one – a war on our bodies, our clarity, our ability to move.

‘This famine is an engineered one – a war on our bodies, our clarity, our ability to move’ Read Sondos Sabra’s Letter from Gaza in The New Statesman. www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

View of Seaford head, looking over Cuckmere Haven. White chalk cliff, green hill, shingle beach. Bramble and hedgerow in foreground, with a wire fence

"Is there a felicity in the world superior to this?"
Celebrating meeting a Big Deadline with a holiday to reconnect with the chalk of my childhood. Have I been finding myself crying every now and then at the scenery I've not seen for 4 years? Yes. Am I relaxed, and feeling at ease? Also yes.

Bi-lingual English and Welsh programme for Aberystwyth MusicFest event, Jane Austen @ 250: The Beautiful Cassandra

Aberystwyth MusicFest is a truly glorious thing - we're so lucky to have it & all the wonderful variety of music it brings to Aber. Very much looking forward to this evening's offering: Jane Austen @ 250: The Beautiful Cassandra - a recital of some of Austen's letters underscored by piano music...

An advert for my book Ghosted in the Waterstones 25% off summer offer. Pre-order with code SUMMER25 to get the discount.

👻GHOSTED pre-order offer at Waterstones!👻

From now until Thursday, you can get 25% off pre-ordered copies of Ghosted with the code SUMMER25. Everyone who pre-orders it will be forever blessed by Bev the Haunted Doll.

#paranormal #ghosthunting #nonfiction

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When I say I am very excited about this...
Mari has done something really rather special with Witsh, shedding some much-needed light on the witch trials in Wales - not as well known as those in Scotland or Pendle, but no less indicative of the precarious position of women in a patriarchal society

Delivered a paper at our conference this week? Why not turn it into a full article for the next general issue of Victorian Popular Fictions? Our latest issue is out now and is open access: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...

Hear hear!

It's the @vpfa's deeply rooted refusal of hierarchy in the interest of welcome and joy combined with serious intellectual ambition, isn't it?

It's proof renewed every year that fun and rigour make a great alloy!

Conference programme: 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association. Heights, Depths, and Extremes. The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK. Victorian picture of a group of people confronted by a sea monster

Well, #VPFAExtremes has been wonderful - the height of my summer so far, as ever! I am deeply grateful to be part such a fantastic, extremely warm and collegiate association. Thoroughly enjoyed the last few days - diolch pawb!

Fantastic work by a fellow Aberystwythian! Really interesting paper about the connections between Corelli and Curie, the assumed relationship between women working and then aging, and, of course, the patriarchy... (Women being able to work *despite* going grey? The horror!!) #VPFAExtremes

A great meal with great conference pals! @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAextremes

HUGE shout out to Keira for handling being the sole speaker like a pro! I certainly enjoyed chairing this panel, even if it was a slightly unconventional one. I'm *always* game for talking about Jane Eyre - this was an absolute pleasure. Thank you Keira for being such a good sport! #VPFAExtremes