I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

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I'm so hot that Darcie accurately represents how I feel internally right now. I'm even mentally clutching an emotional support lobster 🦞 (She was given ample shade & water but alas chose to cook herself in the sun for a bit 🤷‍♀️)

Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory

I've just walked around a VERY hot garden festival for 5 and a bit hours and am 99% sure I was like 20 minutes away from collapsing - HOWEVER, I also had a fantastic day yesterday and ate my body weight in Bath bunns at Sally Lunns 🤭 plus @toppingsbath.bsky.social was beautiful! 😍

My session on Frankenstein for the @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social Gothic education day went well, with another bunch of students who asked some great questions! And, inspired by @drbeard79.bsky.social 's brilliant Mary Shelley talk on Monday night, Matilda is my book of choice for the journey home!

Me on Mary Shelley @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social Photo 1: This is how you can read Frankenstein’s monster as an incel… Photo 2: So, Del Toro wimps out in his Frankenstein adaptation by having the monster only kill some unnamed Danish sailors rather than the woman & child he kills in the book…

Bradford Lit Fest is super fun!

After three very long years, I have finally handed in my PhD thesis & novel!

A beautiful day one (for me) at @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social - today I had the honour of leading a classics session for Bradford secondary school pupils. We talked about what makes a book a classic, and played classic author/book guess who & finished with some brilliantly insightful questions too!

Yeah!!

@bradfordlitfest.bsky.social So excited to be bringing some sessions to the education programme this week, my first time in Bradford. Hope all the visiting pupils enjoy hearing from a scouse literature scholar who is far too obsessed with the nineteenth century! I will be finding the Waterstones 🤭

Update: I got the hat

Totally outside my research expertise, but I've just discovered that @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social has the House of Fraser archive dating from 1849. It's a gorgeous peek into changes in fashion, culture & consumerism. Call your fashion historian pals! #c19th housefraserarchive.ac.uk

Doctrinally speaking, you should be writing.

Debating whether walking into a session to teach secondary school children about Mary Shelley and Frankenstein with a cap on that says 'gothic tendencies' on it is a) allowed and/or b) a good idea... I think it would be at least funny

A beautiful day full of lovely papers and conversations, a joy to run today's conference. Placing the Nineteenth Century was such a success! A huge thank you @drclaireocall.bsky.social for the keynote & @drbeard79.bsky.social for all your support, as well as my fellow @ehunineteen.bsky.social PGRs

Thanks for a BRILLIANT keynote and a REALLY helpful publishing workshop too - held in the student union, soundtracked by Chappell Roan, as it should be 🖤

Thrilled to be delivering the keynote talk at today’s conference at @ehunineteen.bsky.social. 🤓 #brontës #north #history #heritage #literature

Everything is in place for our Placing the Nineteenth Century PGR-led conference today

TODAY!

today on “y’all need to learn that two things can be true at once” aircon is good and should be more easily accessible and affordable across Europe And we need to fix climate change yesterday because it should not be getting this hot in Europe and that is the bigger issue

Heatwave: dogs edition (Very sad I'm not in Yorkshire rn with my girls 🥺)

Reposting again for the algorithm ✨️Still time to email to attend if you'd like (I can't promise it'll be any cooler than outside, but it will be fun!!)

So, @drbeard79.bsky.social is a terrible photographer but WOO @digivictorian.bsky.social won the inaugural ROAR [something something research] Changemaker Award for his impactful public history🥇

All set up for the Research Office Summer Showcase

Can't wait for this on the 26th!! Email [email protected] for more info if you'd like to come ☺️

Join us next Friday for a conference on 19thC place organised by our @ehunineteen.bsky.social PhD researchers - led by the brilliant @19thcenturyem.bsky.social !

Mansfield Park is a horror novel.

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Very excited to be talking about Mary Shelley at the Bradford Literature Festival

Our next digital event will be an interactive workshop on making TikToks about your research! Run by yours truly, Chloe (@sadpphicstanza.bsky.social) and Amy (@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social). Join us on 30th June at 5pm BST. Meeting link on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6502

Tapas & a weekday pint with @lzhymtk.bsky.social after a fab supervision meeting today!! @drbeard79.bsky.social & @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Katie even brought me a Jane Austen choose your own adventure book 😂🩷 (not pictured the book borrowed from Sarah for the next part of chapter research)

Happy pride month to me because I discovered a Victorian historical romance called A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell with a trans hero/love interest set at the Cornish seaside!! They ride bikes together??? and apparently they hook up in a bathing machine???? I need it now!!! 😮

Happy #Pride month! For your reading pleasure, check out my latest sapphic historical, The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley! If you like the simmering yearning of Francesca/Michaela from #Bridgerton, you'll love this book. Miseducation is the 2nd book in my *Austentatious* series 🏳️‍🌈

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

JOB ALERT - Curator: Modern Archives and Manuscripts (1601-1950) at the British Library - full-time, permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR461/c...

Great to see our Coastal Studies & Society's special issue, 'Coastal Imaginaries 2: #Haunted Space, Story and Place' is now available online: journals.sagepub.com/toc/CLS/curr... Many thanks to Mike Benbough-Jackson, Eamon Doggett, Prash Naidu, Claire Waffel and @jfpackham.bsky.social

One of our @ehunineteen.bsky.social MA graduates - now a first year PhD researcher - has had his first article published in Brontë Studies 👏👏👏 It’s about how Jane is a bit like Pilot, Mr Rochester’s dog 🐶🙀

I'm currently hiding in the shade, but the laptop has ventured outside with me today 🫡☀️ I wish I could go write some seaside PhD on location at a beach, but alas the garden will have to do...

Very excited to be a late addition to the Haunted Shores research showcase this coming Wednesday! I will be ✨️showcasing✨️ a little bit of my current WIP thesis chapter on (female) gothic seasides in 19thC literature. Huge thanks to @jfpackham.bsky.social for upgrading me from poster to panelist!

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social thank you for a physical copy of The Miseducation of Caroline Bingley. This dedication made me cry 🤍 you're so generous Out 5th June in the UK for my Austen loving pals (and it's a gorgeous sapphic romance too!)

I am SO EXCITED to reveal the cover of my new novella! WE, THE DROWNING is about a drowning death-cult at the end of the world and the boy who'll do anything to find out why his mother joined it. (Plus, it has a pink fairy armadillo ✨)

Book of the year for real!! ✨️🫶🏻

me, buying a book written by someone who I've never met but we sometimes like each other's posts on Bluesky: my friend wrote this

this is an actual Bluesky Rule: if you have ever so much as exchanged a single like, you are required to hold up the book in the shop and say "hey my friend wrote this"

A very (pink) Austen day today!! • Prepping for Placing the Nineteenth Century conference meeting @ehunineteen.bsky.social • The definition of 'if you don't ask, you don't get' as Anderson Press sent me a proof copy of Kitty and Mary simply bc I dm-ed and asked them nicely. Wow 😮

The most gorgeous day on campus I've had in a while ✨️

Still time to send in an abstract for our PGR/ECR conference on place in the 19thC - it’s sure to be a friendly and supportive and thought-provoking event! Join us!!

WRITE FOR THE BARS BLOG! ✍️ Want to write for us? Here are some prompts for May! Which may or may not be themed around the Comms Fellow's all-consuming exam stress... Email us at [email protected] if you'd like to write about these ideas or anything else!