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!

Join our own @drbeard79.bsky.social & other good eggs to talk about cracking applying for funding

You still have time to get your abstracts in for 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', hosted by EHUNineteen's PhD students!

Once again sharing our upcoming EHU19 PGR & ECR conference as the abstract deadline for 1st May is looming closer! We're very lucky to have @drclaireocall.bsky.social as keynote & running a journal workshop! Send any abstracts or queries to [email protected] ✨️ @ehunineteen.bsky.social

Turned 25 on easter sunday dressed like a van gogh painting ✨️💐

It’s almost affordable for normal people in paperback form and is, I think, a good book on Romanticism, humour, selfhood, community, and Romantic legacies today - Rita and I had fun writing it and we hope some of that comes across reading it! It would look great on your university library’s shelf!

Pre-order @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s Reading the Romantic Ridiculous in paperback to make next year’s royalty statement less, well, ridiculous!

Mary Bennet is better than me because if I had a man asking me to come live in Italy with him by the lakes, reading and drinking wine - I'd say yes 🫡 and I don't have to marry him???? Yes please!!! (I know why she can't & I'm excited for Mr Haywood next ep but also 👀) #theotherbennetsister

BARS | BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2026 Call for Applications @ Liverpool John Moores University offers unaffiliated ECRs a platform from which to pursue their research, while also organising an academic event or a workshop. More info and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6399

WE NEED YOU! Would you like to write an article for the BARS Blog? We've got some ideas for April below! If you'd like to write a blog on one of these subjects, please do get in touch! Alternatively, if you'd like to pitch your own idea, don't be afraid to drop us a message!!

Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)

Aries season has given me funding for 2026 BARS conference, an announcement of Fran/Michaela for Bridgerton season 5, and getting to watch Mary Bennet be a kindred spirit on tv 🎉

I am profoundly ready for Bridgerton lesbians

NOW WE TALKING!!!! Let’s get GAY!

⭐️ The results are in!! My wonderful hons class have made their choices for dream Victorian Popular Fiction dinner party. Who are you adding and where are you sitting?! #c19th

My first matcha, Sunday endo group, and protect the dolls now & always ✨️

I wrote a thing!!! Check out my discussion of Bridgerton season 4 & Romanticism (and also swooning over Benedict!)

I'm writing on Wickham being a nasty piece of work in Pride and Prejudice. If he was alive today, he'd definitely be featured on the Manosphere doc by Louis Theroux 🤢 (also mid 20s+ going after 2 girls of 15 and 16??? Yikes, even by 1813 standards!)

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March is Endometriosis awareness month! So here are some facts about it💛 - It's a chronic inflammatory disease where the cells similar to the lining of the uterus grows and takes over organs (progressive) - It is the world's top 20 most painful condition in the world - It affects 1 in 10 women/AFAB

Happy endometriosis awareness month to me - I've finally been referred to physiotherapy (for my hip/leg/sciatic pain) 🎉💛

Overgrowth (2026) A painting I made for endometriosis awareness month. #endometriosis #art #oilpainting #painting #artist

Emma's Bridgerton s4 thoughts nobody asked for: this is probably my favourite series after Queen Charlotte, Alfie stole the show (northern rep!), bisexual Benefict wasn't erased 🎉🎉, Michaela and Fran are SO cute together (queer Fran means so much to me 🥺) 1/2

📝 Fancy writing for our blog? Here are some ideas we would LOVE for you to write about this month! Email us at [email protected] if you're interested. We'd love to hear from writers at ANY stage of their careers!!

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social has done it again! Absolutely GORGEOUS book, I love Caroline & Georgiana's story. Thank you @netgalley.bsky.social for the earc! Lindz asked for name suggestions on a post and I suggested Edward, my late grandad who was my best friend and my biggest academic supporter 💖

Commiserate with our own @drbeard79.bsky.social about editors not getting his obscure jokes by reading his piece (quote skeeted below) on thinking about Jane Austen and sexuality

I've been re-watching Andor, as my second love after Austen is Star Wars, and it might just be one of the best tv shows ever made. SO politically apt, a masterpiece. (My third love, because I am a well rounded person and a lover of gothic romance, is Hannibal - if anyone was wondering...)

Romantic Adaptations: Situating del Toro’s Frankenstein (2025) In this post, we welcome @jodielmarley.bsky.social back to the BARS blog to discuss Guillermo del Toro’s recent adaptation of Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, and Mia Goth. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6278

New on the BARS Blog! Five Questions: @jodielmarley.bsky.social on William Blake’s Mysticism Her first monograph, which we discuss below, was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6309

Call for Papers: Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR Conference Friday 26th June 2026 Edge Hill University For more info and the full CfP see the BARS Blog link⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6343

Re-upping our PGR-organised ECR conference on Place - send us an abstract by 1st May for a (hopefully) sunny day in June 😎

Today is your final opportunity to submit an abstract for the VPFA study day on the 'critical age". Get submitting!!

Heads up, Goths: Essaka Joshua’s splendid volume on Disability and the Gothic in the nineteenth century has just been published in my and @angelawright1794.bsky.social Elements in the Gothic series. Open access for the next 2 weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.