April marked the 30th anniversary of the first transmission of the BBC’s film of PERSUASION, to my mind the absolute gold standard of Austen adaptations. I didn’t get round to watching it then, but I’ve put it on this morning, a small tribute to John Woodvine.

I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK. www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...

"Miss Glamour, or, Dangerous Men." New contender in the perennial contest for oddest #19thc title: discovered earlier this week, in a fun session engaging Houghton Library's recently acquired collection of French gothic fiction. Does anyone know what English work T-P Bertin has freely translated?

22-year-old mezzo-soprano Anja Mittermüller gives her debut recital at Wigmore Hall this evening, a year after becoming the youngest winner of the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition ✨ 🕰️ 7.30pm 🎶 Schubert, Grieg, Ravel and more 🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202510171930

WSECS proposals due Nov. 1! Come spend Presidents' Day weekend in sunny Santa Maria, CA, or present remotely. This year's theme is "Eighteenth-Century Collaborations." www.wsecs.org/upcoming-eve...

For Oscariana, the Oscar Wilde Festival, we'll be displaying our first editions of 'An Ideal Husband' and 'A House of Pomegranates' from the Benjamin Iveagh collection in Marsh's until Saturday.

the only cancel culture that exists in UK universities is the 12,000 university jobs cut in the last *year*. This is so unserious

An incredible 19th-century Inuit woman's beaded parka, comprised of almost 160,000 beads; the beadwork was transferred from another parka, possibly gifted from mother to daughter, and sewed to this one.

Rutgers English statement on academic freedom and in support of colleagues who have been forced to flee the country for their own safety

Work in progress. #AnneLister #ElizaRaine

Rightly or wrongly (I still haven't figured out Bluesky), I am going to keep sharing this, because I think infertilty and pregnancy loss matter, and I think we really need to hear that the grief around early loss isn't a recent thing. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-is-to...

A FUNNY THING has been reviewed in @thetls.bsky.social! I subscribed in order to read the whole thing but my application is "pending," so if anyone can share the whole thing with me, I'd love to see how it ends www.the-tls.com/literature/l...

“Histories of friendship… are a way of multiplying connection; a way of making real, small, and embodied solidarities echo louder down the years.” I really enjoyed @lauracforster.bsky.social new article on histories of/ friendship/ as methodology 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/f...

It's that time of year when I get to rave about Zinnie Harris's This Restless House again 🤩 #TragedyPaper

This is tomorrow, for anyone interested.

The Moonlight Mandolin Orchestra will be playing a Christmas concert at Histon Baptist Church, Station Road, Histon, CB24 9LQ together with the Moonshot Ensemble on December 13th at 19:30. £15/£10 concessions. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christmas-... Image: Toni Cuenca on unSplash.

“why do wokerati have to make everything about gender?” Listen, my toddler’s preschool has different lines for girls and boys on the Wheels On The Bus, why the fuck are YOU making everything about gender

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

It's not Masquerade Monday, BUT! 'The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue' is now available for pre-order & you can get 25% off through Friday! www.waterstones.com/book/the-mas... If you think Bridgerton will be juicy, just wait til you get your hands on this 😏🤫 #18thc

Monday morning Melbourne?

Just putting this out to the universe - Nance’s memorial service is next weekend and I belatedly offered to sort a recording/livestreaming for the main organisers who don’t have capacity. Anyone know a queer videographer in Melbourne who does memorials/funerals?

Nance is the third or forth person to appear in in this clip saying she doesn’t want to be a shrivelled old prune and that “it was all on”, waving her arms around. The memorial will be significantly less fabulous but a lot of her friends scattered and I’d like them to be able to see it

Absurdly, this also went live yesterday, the result of me and the brilliant @drnollid.bsky.social trudging through the fog on Ardmore clifftop spitepress.co.uk/product/all-... but just the pre-order this time: out in spring 2026

veer2.org/Kit-Fryatt-H... It's here at last, after 3 years (or 15, depending on how you're counting). Profound gratitude to all at Veer2, especially Rob Kiely, to Leda Scully for the cover artwork, and profoundest thanks of all to Harry Gilonis, my indefatigably scholarly and gentlemanly co-author

A privilege to speak about what “The Tombs of Atuan” means to me. Launch of “The Word for World” book and exhibition of the maps of Ursula Le Guin.

Noticed that's it World Mental Health Day: posting here for info my webpage of bibliography and other sources on Victorian psychiatry (in the UK) which grew out of answering v similar questions on the subject back in the day of listservs www.lesleyahall.net/victpsyc.htm

"People are _losing_ their jobs for _doing_ their jobs." WHEW. @lisalmoore.bsky.social on the current attacks on Texas higher ed #SaveUT

Who's Here? 👋 A warm welcome to: Dr Audrey Borowski (Cambridge) Dr Elizabeth Sarah Coles (Pompeu Fabra) Dr Sheila Crane (Virginia) Dr @darlingorlaith.bsky.social (UC Dublin) Dr @kareemestefan.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr @fernandag.bsky.social (Cambridge) Dr Jan Kerkmann (Freiburg) 1/2

sometimes i think teaching literature is just teaching listening, attunement, becoming subject to the alterity of the text

YESSS misunderstanding IS understanding and this is what teaching is. God I miss teaching

Dubliners: on 16 October I'll be joining the Dublin City University book club to talk about Henry Henry with a very special interlocutor, Dr Kit Fryatt -- professor, husband, & indispensable literary collaborator. Free and open to all, but please register ahead of time: www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandcu...

You Are Here: Nine More Stories—my collection of SF/fantasy shorts, some prev pubbed at Strange Horizons, BCS, etc & also a new novella abt growing up & queer devotion—plus witches, spaceships, romcoms, all you need. KJ Charles called it "absolutely outstanding" www.generalist.org.uk/iona/books-a...

Pictured in this 19th c. painting of her music room by Helfft (behind piano)

It’s Fanny’s music stand!!

Looking forward to sharing the work at Gutter bookshop in Dublin! Tomorrow!

Truly shocked, but so happy to be able to share the honour with my agent, Martha, my editor, Brandon, and everyone at Unnamed Press and Jonathan Cape -- and my husband & constant collaborator, Kit, who's been helping me to create this world and these characters from the very beginning.

Imagine if You Know Who spent her time, energy and money fighting the good fight on behalf of authors to protect their copyright. Imagine that world.

Is there an article, book, or chapter that made you think in a new way about Lister? If you’d like to lead a discussion about a piece of Lister scholarship for the Anne Lister Forum, drop us a message!

A portfolio or envelope case made of birchbark and dyed porcupine quills by a talented Mi’kmaw artist around c.1910 and featuring the traditional 8-pointed star— I love this object. Relatedly, it‘s Mi’kmaq Treaty Day!

London people - on October 16th I'll be talking to the phenomenal author @bschillace.brandyschillace.com about trans history, fighting fascism, and what happens when you shine a light on the research the Nazis tried to burn. Could you help us to spread the word? www.waterstones.com/events/the-i...

Applications are open through December 15th for Folger Institute Long-Term Fellowships -- $70,000 for the 2026-2027 academic year

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AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

Proust, still procrastinating after 1,000 pages…

Out today!💀 (advance access, open access) my little note entitled 'Hamlet’s Garbage', Notes & Queries par excellence, and a small preview of the sorts of things that I explore in my forthcoming Textile Shakespeare: academic.oup.com/nq/article/d...

New email sign-off courtesy of original poetry in the India Gazette, 1823:

🖤 ANNE LISTER 🪶 (3 Apr 1791 — 22 Sept 1840) Anne Lister died on this day, as far from her Shibden Hall home as she had ever been, æt. 49. 💫 Grateful to all who have revived her singular story — and who amplify her ver. “proud spirit” and lifelong commitment to 𝓞𝟧+𝟥 [hope].

Sing with GLOW Choir this Saturday 27th! All voices welcome. Book here: getbrightonsinging.com/glow-members... #QueerChoir #CommunitySinging #EveryoneCanSing #LGBTQIA #QueerCommunity #SolidarityThroughSong #SingingForChange #SingingForWellbeing #InclusiveChoir

The study says that stability of gender identity was observed in over 80% of *all the kids in the study*, ie trans kids AND cisgender kids, and 11.9% of participants who originally identified as cis *no longer did* at the most recent report. The Economist is completely misrepresenting the data.