We @ehunineteen.bsky.social wish everyone a happy holiday - and we’re already looking forward to seeing you in January for our next seminar - BUT FIRST: rest!

Fanny Price is EVERYONE’s passive-aggressive queen 👸

For the Austen short course, I asked students to come up with a one-word review for the book we were reading - which was super fun! (Ranging from ‘dull’ 😱 to ‘passive-aggressive’ 🤣) Yesterday, we finished the course and I asked for a one-word review of it and am *delighted* with ‘joyful’ 🥰🥰🥰

I can’t stop laughing at this video feed. We interrupt these interviews with ACTUAL WORLD FAMOUS celebrities to bring you a strange man talking about Victorian leg fetishes

Check out our own @digivictorian.bsky.social on WIRED talking about Victorian leg fetishes (and more on Victorian history!)

Birthday thread in honour of Jane Austen, 250 years young today! On what @drbeard79.bsky.social learned whilst teaching an evening class on Austen’s novels

*Foucault voice* Mansfield Park is a prison.

Our #19thCFlashTalks felt *exactly* like this picture: a convivial gathering, an intellectual feast - lots of interesting thoughts and ideas from our postgraduate researchers on 19th-century studies in and on the north west, innovative methodologies, the significance of reputation, more 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Finally, Emma Butler’s #19thCFlashTalk thinks about Anna Austen Lefroy’s 1925 continuation of Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon and its representation of the seaside, presenting the fruits of her recent fellowship at Chawton 10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Emily Hayes’ #19thCFlashTalk examines how female victims of sexual violence were represented in Victorian and Edwardian newspapers 10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Laura Grande Mateu’s #19thCFlashTalk uses the case study of Marianne Brocklehurst, traveller, collector, and museum founder to explore what scrapbooks and other material can tell us about Egyptomania and cultural heritage 10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our first #19thCFlashTalk will see Liam Pope take an eco-feminist approach to gardens in the Brontës’ works 10/12, 6 pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

TODAY!

Join our own @drbeard79.bsky.social and a starry line up of creative Romanticists later today!

THIS WEEK! Join us!!

Dickens is going to Denmark! Will you go too? CFP deadline: 4 January Conference: 13-16 July in Aarhus on ‘Thinking Dickens’ dickenssociety.org/home

If it this sounds intriguing, sign up below! Can't wait to hear what my fellow PGRs talk about too ✨️ us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

For our next seminar, the wonderful @digivictorian.bsky.social is hosting our just as wondrous PhD researchers, Liam Pope, Laura Grande Mateu, Emily Hayes, & Emma Butler, for our #19thCFlashTalks. Join us for a pre-Christmas treat on Wednesday 10th December from 6 pm. Free, online, all welcome!

Really looking forward to speaking at this!

Join us for a pre-Christmas treat to celebrate the work of our postgraduate researchers. Free, online, all welcome - register in skeet below! 🎄 🎁 ☃️

This is going to be a pre-Christmas treat! I’m looking forward to thinking about Romantic creativity with some serious scholars - and bringing a bit of silliness to thinking about Coleridge, Keats, and the Brontë sisters!

Let our own @digivictorian.bsky.social *scandalise* you about Oscar Wilde!!

TODAY - still time to join us for some Amateur Theatricals and professional seminaring! Free, online, all welcome!

TOMORROW - join us!!!

THIS WEEK - join us on Thursday for some amateur theatricals and at least semi-professional zooming 😉

This looks DELICIOUS 😋

Snazzy poster for our Brontë Studies CFP on Poetry (more details here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...) Submit! Share! Please and thank you!

NEXT WEEK - join us!

Call for paper for a special issue on the Brontës and poetry - on their work as poets - on poetry in the novels - on poetic influences and legacies - hoping for creative responses too! Abstracts due April 26 Articles due December 26 #Romanticism #Victorian #Gothic Please share!

Submit an abstract for our Brontë Studies special issue on Poetry: close read one of their poems - think about the relationship with other poets - consider their legacy in poetry - creative responses welcome! Abstract deadline 1/4/26 for 12/26 article deadline - publication in 2028 🖤

An excellent first proper day at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social ✨️ introduction to the reading room means an exciting start to the fellowship and a lovely chilly walk around the grounds this morning

It was super fun travelling to Bath to record the ‘roving reporter’ bit of this podcast on Sense & Sensibility over a head-sized bun in Sally Lunn’s 🖤

Listen in for our own @drbeard79.bsky.social eating a bun the size of his head and gossiping about Sense & Sensibility

Join us at the end of the month for David Coates’ paper on Amateur Theatricals 🖤🖤🖤 Hosted by @catherinequirk.bsky.social Free, online, all welcome!

www.raceandregency.org/podcast We have a podcast!

New BARS Digital Event: Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 November 6PM UK time) Details and tickets below ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...

Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November. Details below: www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

👻 Happy Halloween! What better time to discover the inaugural volume in Lever Press's film|minutes book series?: 'Bride of Frankenstein' by @shanedenson.bsky.social dissects the 1935 classic through sound, technology, and time itself minute-by-minute.🎃 🍿 bit.ly/3JzEdPr @leverpress.bsky.social

We approve of all the Ozymandias poems 🖤🖤🖤

Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social! Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!

Thanks to @drreznicek.bsky.social for a punchy and perfectly formed talk on the treatment of non-healthy bodies in bodies politic, for answering wide-ranging questions with care and generosity, and teaching @drbeard79.bsky.social a new word in ‘normate’ 🖤

Drawing on V21 Collective's call to presentism as a pedagogical device, @drreznicek.bsky.social points to how moments of care in novels like Persuasion offer students a means of discussing the world as it is today, leading to a nuanced back & forth with @drbeard79.bsky.social.

LATER TODAY We’re looking forward to it! Still time to join us…

I’m very happy that this book is finally out in the world. Get yourself a copy if you want to hear how one of the shortest forms relates to one of the longest, or if you’re interested in whether or how we learn from fiction!

TOMORROW

Starting on Thursday - we’re going to be Jane Austen’s reading romance revolution for her big anniversary year 🖤🖤🖤 - still time to sign up!!

This Wednesday! First @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar of the season!

My research into a review or advert for John Hartley's book Seets i' Blackpool has so far been fruitless, but I have found 3 seperate adverts of him talking about Veno's cough medicine... This might end up being the topic of my flash talk with @ehunineteen.bsky.social in December if all else fails 😂

Just one week until I get to chat with the inimitable @drbeard79.bsky.social about disability, care, and belonging in Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, and Walter Scott. Do come along if you can. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our @ehunineteen.bsky.social seminar series starts next week with @drreznicek.bsky.social talking to me about care in Romantic novels - register in skeet below! Free, online, all welcome!