How cool does this lineup look! Thrilled to be part of Romanticism Across Borders's 25-26 series - thanks for asking me @paulinehortolland.bsky.social et al.!
07.10.2025 13:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I knew theyβd come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than βOur Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!β
04.10.2025 15:19 β π 3655 π 1069 π¬ 138 π 43
Can't make it this week, but this promises to be fascinating - d'Eon is a figure of enduring intrigue. I've signed up to attend the other seminars for the term online now! #c18 #long18thcentury #history #genderstudies #academia
23.09.2025 09:21 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The new LP issue has arrived: 'Romantic Shock and Surprise,' edited by David Duff (Queen Mary University of London) and Laurent Folliot @sorbonne-universite.fr. UniversitΓ© Cover design by KarolΓna BendovΓ‘. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2025...
03.09.2025 08:15 β π 9 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0
Sorry for never being on Bluesky anymore, BUT I had my first article published @litterariaprag.bsky.social! Here it is, free to read: Radical Reform and the Shock of the Past in Mary Robinson's Vancenza #gothic #C18 #romanticism #academia #womenwriters litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...
17.09.2025 15:24 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
20 Books of Summer, 7: Larsen
Passing, by Nella Larsen (1929): Probably everyone knows the plot of this already because I seem to be the last person on earth to read it, so really I thought I knew the salient points of the premβ¦
#20booksofsummer 7 (forgot to link to reviews of 4-6 but they're on the blog too!): Passing, by Nella Larsen, a novel whose extreme self-awareness stops it from being too schematic, offering instead an exploration of safety and freedom ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/2... #books #reading
25.06.2025 08:04 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
π me please!
07.06.2025 21:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Remembering former weaver Finton Burgin, who died on this day in 1860 at the age of 18. He was the son of the widowed Catherine Burgin, died 23rd March 1866, aged 50.
05.06.2025 11:16 β π 25 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Indeed! The only thing that might make me consider a deal with a fairy for immortality...
31.05.2025 13:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Definitely read Forster! This one would be a great place to startβit was the first one of his that I read, back in the day.
31.05.2025 13:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
May 2025 Superlatives
May. I clung on by my fingernails. Deadlines came and were met. Mental gears were shifted every other day or so. Requirements seemed to cluster mid-month, in one particularly exhausting ten-day sprβ¦
I clung on to May by my fingernailsβthis is everything I read that WASN'T from the library, including three re-reads, two gripping new/forthcoming releases, and one 99p Kindle punt: ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/m... #reading #books #bookreview
31.05.2025 09:40 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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21.05.2025 16:39 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The pleasure was all mine! What a fantastic weekend at the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar's annual symposium, this year at the Sorbonne on Romantic Shock and Surprise. A convivial group of brilliant and, above all, generous scholarsβmuch to ponder and follow up on.
18.05.2025 12:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The demonisation of trans people isn't normal. People pretend that it is, but it's a culture war that's been manufactured in the past decade. Trans people are here and real and who they say they are. Get with it.
18.04.2025 11:58 β π 31 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
not to invalidate my trans siblings but, personally, cis allies loudly declaring support for us right now does help keep despair at bay even if it changes nothing. I donβt care how you phrase it, how clumsy. Please be there for/with us, loudly. It fights the voices that scream everyone hates us.
17.04.2025 14:33 β π 1594 π 424 π¬ 25 π 40
James Clifford, writing on C18 biography in 1968: "The purpose of this essay is to attempt some hasty generalisations." I'll know I've made it when I can write *that* in an academic essay with confidence.
18.04.2025 09:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#LoveYourLibrary, February 2025
Hosted, as always, by Rebecca at Bookish Beck, posting on the last Monday of every month. Thereβs no set formula to this; you can post anything about libraries, whether youβve recently been to an eβ¦
I read five books from libraries in February, ranging from one of the thickerβand more brilliantβ19th century classics to theory of education as revolutionary praxis to a 21st-century classic of how what we remember makes us ourselves. Here's what I thought: ellethinks.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/l...
24.02.2025 08:26 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
2 brand-new paperbacks for free! (Wellβon @waterstones.bsky.social loyalty points.) The Deep Sky as recommended by @lauratisdall.bsky.social; Bridge just because.
14.02.2025 15:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I've heard of it! I'm not sure... but we'll see.
11.02.2025 07:47 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I fear to report that I have just laughed aloud while reading The Pickwick Papers, and can therefore no longer be considered young.
30.01.2025 08:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Important #DigitalFriday update, it's not just costa that has free access to the BNA! (100% not a Weatherspoons endorsement, many other venues are available)
22.01.2025 07:26 β π 23 π 11 π¬ 0 π 2
Leverhulme ecr fellow researching c18-19 lit & theatre & media history @ uni of glasgow
Early modernist. Lecturer at Oxford Conted, IES, AIFS, & WEA. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London, c.1600-1800'. London, suicides, crime & punishment, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers). Co-editor How-to History
Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages.
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Litteraria Pragensia is a peer-reviewed, SCOPUS-listed international academic journal, founded in 1991. In print & open access: https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz
PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and antiquarianism in 18th century Ireland | Executive Administrator, The Walpole Society
Literature PhD, Long Time Podcaster, New to Bluesky
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Scottish Lit PhD (SGSAH) and Tutor at UofGlasgow // early modern womenβs writing, song culture & medicine π book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp π she/her πΆ aspiring broadcaster π»
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Illustrator in Vermont, USA. Character artist Critical Role Campaign 3! Rhymes with Donna, not Banana.
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In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
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Part-time MA student in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck
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Iβm a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
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Historian of design, emotions, 19C France, destruction, ruins and the like. writing a book about the aftermath of the Paris Commune.
Social/Cultural Historian.
Press/populism/Romani history.
Special Collections Librarian / Print Historian
Fascinated by the history of scientific illustration. Documenting natural history books I encounter in my research ππ¦
Historian of reproduction, sexuality & medicine in Europe, 1500s-1800s | she/her | Based on Wurundjeri country, in Naarm | Postdoc Fellow, University of Melbourne | views my own π»π³οΈβππ
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PhD student at the University of Surrey - women travellers in the nineteenth century who used the polite science of botany in their journals and correspondence to create professional authority.
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