✨Suffragettes in Scotland turned to Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford 🏰In December 1909, members of the radical Women’s Freedom League staged a Cranford scene at the Oak Hall Edinburgh Café

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Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Find out which female authors reached historical readers ca 1850-1920: brill.com/display/titl... #BookHistory

✨In 1916, Smith College, US—a progressive higher ed institution, later to become Sylvia Plath’s alma mater—staged a pageant of literary women 💪 It showcased women’s talents through literary heroines, from Helen of Troy to Ibsen’s Nora

Happening this week! 🤩🥳

9 July 2026, 4-5.15pm (CET): Special Guest Lecture by Dr Marina Cano “Adapting Violence, Violence in Adaptation: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Behind Bars.” Free. Zoom. All welcome! For the link, contact: [email protected] global.oup.com/academic/pro... #C19th #Adaptation

✨Austen’s Mr Bingley as an 18thC H.Weinstein? 🙋 In my #MeToo reading of Pride and Prejudice (via the stage). ⚖️ Bingley abandons the woman he’s been very publicly courting 💗 And Jane Bennet blames herself for her fanciful imagination

Two weeks to this event! Can’t wait!! 🤩🥳 Free. Zoom. All welcome: ucd-ie.zoom.us/j/6428498751... 9 July 2026, 4-5.15pm CET On the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro... On the Network: wwvnetwork.wordpress.com #C19th #WomenWriters #Adaptation

✨Star actress Rose Eytinge (1835-1911) had a reputation as a trouble-maker 😈In the middle of a production of East Lynne, she stood up and rebuked an audience member 💥 He was drunk and disruptive, mocking her performance of Lady Isabel’s melodramatic deathbed scene

Thanks a million to @essenglish.bsky.social for sharing this! ❤️💙❤️

✨George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss on the experimental stage! 🧠🌀This theatrical tradition brings up the unconscious of the piece via exploratory movement ✂️It split heroine Maggie Tulliver into 3

📣 This Thursday the Women Writing Violence Network is hosting an online best-practice conversation on: 💥 Teaching Violent Texts and Images 💥 📆 18th June – 3pm BST / 4pm CET (90 mins) with speakers including @drclaireocall.bsky.social and @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social – join us – all welcome!

Truly honoured to feature in the latest episode of @adaptationtoday.bsky.social. Thanks to my wonderful hosts @drgbain.bsky.social & @reraddatz.bsky.social adaptationtoday.com/resources/po... Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage global.oup.com/academic/pro...

✨Pride and Prejudice staged behind bars (not only Shakespeare)! 🙋‍♀️ Inmate-actors wrote their own adaptation, highlighting Elizabeth Bennet’s strength of character ✊ For many, Lizzy was their favourite character. Also, the giddy, freedom-loving Lydia Bennet

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🧵✨Heathcliff before Jacob Elordi ☘️ There have been numerous Irish Heathcliffs since 1934 🎭 Heathcliff has spoken Irish onstage and been presented as the “stranger in the house” typical of modern Irish drama

We’ve been interviewed! Thanks so much to @angelfcc.bsky.social and the @ecrlife.bsky.social team! Open Access *Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia* www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

🧵✨ London 1912, the International Suffrage Fair at Chelsea counted with the presence of the Cranford ladies (from Gaskell’s novel) 💪 On the suffrage stage, Miss Pole was “even more aggressive” than in the novel! 🗳️‍♀️ The scene was chosen for its humour and used to demand “Votes for Women!”

Honoured to be giving the 1st Guest Lecture of the Women Writing Violence Network! Free. Zoom. All welcome, ucd-ie.zoom.us/j/6428498751... *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... About the Network wwvnetwork.wordpress.com

🧵✨ Meet Lucille Western (1843-1877), American artiste. First ever to play Lady Isabel Vane (from East Lynne) in Baltimore, 1861. Her performance was critiqued as exaggerated, loud, OTT. But Western created the archetypal Lady Isabel for decades to come.

🎉📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY: *Women, 'Failure' and Academia* is out today, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... Open Access With @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social @tarabrabazon.bsky.social #Academia #Failure

The acknowledgements of this book matter to me. (From next week, I’ll begin a new series introducing some of the book’s highlights! ✨) From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #Precarity #Academia #Adaptation

Just recorded my first podcast on *Theatrical Afterlives* for @adaptationtoday.bsky.social with the very talented @drgbain.bsky.social and @reraddatz.bsky.social Coming up soon! *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

By this time next week, Women, 'Failure' and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University will be out in the world! @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Open Access, www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

🔥 Epilogue: Is there gender parity in adaptation studies? Link to the e-epilogue academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #Adaptation #GenderBias #GlobalAdaptation #19thC

🔥 Almost 7 years after I started this project, today I got the books! *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #TheatricalAfterlives #NineteenthCentury #Adaptation

Chapter 5, The Brontës on the Irish Stage 🥀 🏚️🌬️ ☘️ Link to the e-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #WutheringHeights #Ireland #Heathcliff #EmilyBrontë #CharlotteBrontë

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Delighted that my former institution @unioflimerick.bsky.social has *Theatrical Afterlives* on its shelves already! Thanks to @punchpattie.bsky.social and @ulenglish.bsky.social ❤️ 📖 ❤️ *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Passed on a few teaching tips tonight, including one I got indirectly from Bernard Williams. If you can, look everyone in the eye at least once during your talk or lecture. They will worry you might look at them again and are more likely to concentrate harder so they will look attentive if you do.

Chapter 4, Jane Austen on the Prison Stage: A #MeToo Adaptation 🙋‍♀️✊🤝🏼 Link to the e-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #JaneAusten #PrideandPrejudice #MeToo #Feminism

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Chapter 3, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford in Suffrage Times 🗳️‍♀️ 💪 💜 Link to the e-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #Suffrage #SuffrageTheatre #Gaskell #Cranford

Thanks so much to @sophiefranklin.bsky.social and co, from the Women Writing Violence Network, for sharing news of my book ❤️ 💚 💜 So glad to feature in their April Newsletter! *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Out now from @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social

Chapter 2, Sensation Fiction Onstage and the New Woman💟 👇 E-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #SensationFiction #SensationDrama #LadyAudleysSecret #EastLynne

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Chapter 1, George Eliot’s Theatricality 🎭 👇 Link to the e-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #GeorgeEliot #AdamBede #TheMillOnTheFloss #HelenEdmundson

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Week 0. Introduction 👇 Link to the e-Introduction academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #19thC #WomenWriters #Theatre #Novel

Thanks a million to @essenglish.bsky.social for sharing this! ❤️💙❤️

📚 🎭 Table of contents of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26). Each chapter examines the theatrical afterlives of one 19thC woman novelist. From next week, I’ll be positing the first page of one chapter global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🎉📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY: My second monograph, *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage*, is out today with @academic.oup.com global.oup.com/academic/pro.... Please share/recommend to your library if you can. #JaneAusten #Adaptation #19thC @bavs-uk.bsky.social @uv.es

This is one of the best descriptions I’ve read of the experience of being a precarious academic—poignant and beautifully written, www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care... By Fidan Cheikosman

📢 🧵 BOOK GIVEAWAY WINNERS: Siobhán Dowling for *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro.... Congratulations!

Delighted to see my 2 forthcoming books in @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's March newsletter: *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 26) & *Women, 'Failure' and Academia*(Bloomsbury Apr 26). Thanks, Laura! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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