Dr Maria Salenius

An excellent event today with @tracyborman.bsky.social and @cjfaraday.bsky.social at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 📚 #CheltLitFest

Aurinkoinen Metsätalon pääty ja kukkiva pensas. Forsthuset och en blommande buske.

Tervetuloa kaikki Kielten kandiohjelman uudet opiskelijat! 📚 Hjärtligt välkommen till Kandidatprogrammet i språk! 📖 @helsinki.fi

Thank you for hosting us, @erinannmcc.bsky.social !

Cover page of the programme for JDSC25.

Another amazing gathering of the John Donne Society. Good meetings, inspiring discussions, and strong collegial support. A research community at its best.

#OTD
6th July 1535
Sir Thomas More, former Lord Chancellor and friend of King Henry VIII was executed for high treason - he had denied the King’s supremacy.

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#SirThomasMore #LordChancellor #HighTreason #KingsSupremacy #Tudors #History

On this day 6th July 1483 Richard III was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
A man of considerable talent and much controversy. Makes for interesting history.

Definitely one for my reading list!

Doctoral thesis ”Stay Strange” by Elizabeth Oakes.

Today’s Doctoral defence at the Faculty of Arts, @helsinki.fi, with @stockwell.bsky.social as opponent.

Visiting the amazing Sudeley Castle last week! What an intriguing amount of history on one site 🏰⚔️🛡️👑📚

Inspiring weekend of poetry and scholarship at the Vaughan Association Colloquium in Brecon, Wales 📖📚

Happy Easter 🌿🐣

Cover of Katharine Parr by Alison Weir.

… as well as rereading this one 👑

Cover of Young Elizabeth by Nicola Tallis plus a page with reference to Queen Katherine arriving at Sudeley Castle.

Palm Sunday reading. Revisiting this chapter @nicolatallis.bsky.social in preparation for a visit to Sudeley in a couple of weeks.

The great Charlotte Bronte passed away #otd 1855, aged 38. She was pregnant, and her passing meant the end of the Bronte line. A kind yet fiery and fiercely loyal woman, a genius, there will never be another Charlotte Bronte.

Victorian Women Writers - Finnbrit The work and life of a number of female novelists in 19th-century England

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Cover of Young Elizabeth by Nicola Tallis.

I did receive a few, but this must be on top of the pile this year. (And signed by the author, no less, thanks to @nicolatallis.bsky.social 😊)

Church interior before Christmas morning service starts. Altar, crucifix, Christmas tree, and a hymnal.

Happy Christmas 🎄

Two book covers.

Closing the day with most beautiful poetry 📙

Cover of Blood, Fire & Gold (2022) by Estelle Paranque.

A fascinating deep dive into the lives of two #EarlyModern European royals, #QueenElizabethI and #CatherineDeMedici, by @estelleprnq.bsky.social

Image of Emily Brontë, by her brother Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), National Portrait Gallery, London.

Born #otd Emily Brontë, in 1818 — as well as Kate Bush, in 1958, interpreting the spirit of the novel and helping a new generation find the literature anew 📚
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Cover of The Waiting Game (2024), by Nicola Clark, plus a garden view.

Enjoying a beautiful, leisurely summer’s day. @nikkiclark86.bsky.social

Queen Anne Boleyn (r. 1533-36), image NPG, London.

Thinking about Anne Boleyn today (d. 19 May 1536). What an unexpected life, and such a powerful legacy🥀👑(image from the National Portrait Gallery).

This was a very interesting discussion – as always! Thank you!

Joskus perjantain voi (melkein kokonaan) omistaa omalle tutkimukselle. Tämä oli sellainen perjantai. 📚 Eli aikajanan hahmottamista vuoden 1619 Lontoon keväässä ja lainausten vertaamista kuningas Jaakon raamatunkäännökseen vuodelta 1611. Oli hyvä päivä. 😊

Open book with indistinct text, room with two lamps in the background.

Closing #WorldPoetryDay with the caressing magic of the timeless power of words. 📚

Congratulations! Looks very good!

To mark #WorldSleepDay, here is a sumptuous four-poster bed in the Waldegrave room from c. 1485 at Hever Castle (plus a tiny chapel, originally hidden behind the panelling). The picture is from a lovely visit two years ago.

Cover of Philippa Langley’s ”The Princes in the Tower”; two male heads on red background.

Cannot name a favourite, there are many intriguing books on the era. But currently reading this one. Hoping for new insights, and maybe some further variation to the traditional narrative.

To the right, the cover of Evelyn Waugh’s ”Edmund Campion”; to the left, a bookshelf, with an open book out of focus in the foreground.

#WorldBookDay today, they say. Well, that would be every day, right? Anyway, here is one favourite to which I keep returning – beautifully written, and this copy with such a lovely cover. Plus a #shelfie. 📚

Cover of the conference programme booklet.

Time for the 37th John Donne Society Conference, in Baton Rouge, LA (at Louisiana State University). What a glorious meeting of people and papers!