Writing a book can be a lonely thing, so it's very gratifying when someone reads it and understands why you wanted to write it in the first place. Pleased with this review in Women's Writing. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Nonetheless, he continued his interviews well into the 1980s, blowing through deadlines, publishers, his years on this planet.' I think many among us can relate to this method of research...

I'm hosting another lovely retreat at Starcroft Farm 15-19 June - this time on Writing Lives. Bring your memoir & historical projects for 4 glorious days of writing in the Sussex countryside. www.starcroftfarm.co.uk/writing-retr...

Lovely day so far: indexing a wonderful new book on Mary Shelley, then working w/ a coaching student on their hybrid research/memoir project. I offer human indexing services (no software!) and work with writers and researchers. Get in touch if you are looking for some support with your manuscript!

I definitely shouldn't be allowed in the mum group WhatsApp chat when Wuthering Heights is mentioned, I have no chill.

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

What a lovely evening. Perfect poem prompts, lots of writing/thinking, collaging, good chats. Thank you ♡ @minxmarple.bsky.social and @saloneurope.bsky.social

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

I'm hosting another lovely retreat at Starcroft Farm 15-19 June - this time on Writing Lives. Bring your memoir & historical projects for 4 glorious days of writing in the Sussex countryside. www.starcroftfarm.co.uk/writing-retr...

Phenomenal talk tonight from @luisacale.bsky.social at the London Paris Romanticism Seminar on her new monograph THE BOOK UNBOUND: flying leaves, heavenly voices, epitexts across a century ... what more could one want? So glad I was able to be there.

Any authors/artists feeling weird about doing self-promotion right now: I'm actually kind of begging you to bring some of your unique creation to my timeline. Not just as a distraction, but because art is a tool for building empathy--it's the way we learn to see the world through other eyes.

First day back today lecturing on a BA English prog. that is 'teaching out' i.e. shutting down. It's an awful shame, for all society tbh. In spite of this, or because of it, we've written a beautiful class: The Rise of the Professional Writer, looking @ centuries of value & importance of literature.

Been thinking this morning about the value of taking the time to be calm, to read & write, esp in our current world (on fire). I'm working on that for myself & am always open to chatting w/ writers looking to develop their practice & find meaning in their work. www.alexiswolf.co.uk/authorservices

Been thinking this morning about the value of taking the time to be calm, to read & write, esp in our current world (on fire). I'm working on that for myself & am always open to chatting w/ writers looking to develop their practice & find meaning in their work. www.alexiswolf.co.uk/authorservices

"What is there to explain, anyway? That life is infinitely inventive? That some of us are a little different? That some of us keep living while others do not?" www.awritersnotebook.org/p/words-and-...

Super excited to be returning to Canterbury Christ Church Uni to co-teach a module on The Rise of the Professional Author. There is nothing better than working with a colleague to build a beautiful reading list full of books and authors you love, knowing you'll soon be discussing them with students.

The first great American 250th anniversary date of the year arrives this Friday: the publication of Thomas Paine's COMMON SENSE, which occurred on January 9, 1776. Many sources have the date as January 10, 1776. This is incorrect. But what accounts for the confusion???? Friends, follow me.

New Year, New-ish Call for Papers Calling all #Bronte scholars, #poetry specialists, #Romantic & #Victorian -ists: please consider submitting to our Brontës and Poetry special issue of Brontë Studies - #creative approaches encouraged 🖤 Abstracts: 1 April Manuscripts: 15 December Please RT

Do any Gothic people have access to a digital copy of the following text? Anon, _Phantoms of the cloister, or, The mysterious manuscript : a novel : in three volumes_, 1795. I'd be so grateful if anyone had this, and could email digital copies of the volumes to me.

Not ignoring the many horrors this morning, rather processing them by leaning into beautiful things: working w/ a mentoring client on a fascinating research project doing some of my own research walking in a soggy forest then collecting son from school to celebrate the second night of hanukkah.

The actors who played Robert Martin and Jane Fairfax in the 2020 Emma got married in real life. Now sitting here contemplating an alternate novel plot/timeline and what it would mean...

Need help with your manuscript, research assistance, or a book index? I have some limited availability in January and February for new projects. I never use AI or software (even for indexing), and it shows! www.alexiswolf.co.uk/authorservices

Very disappointed to share that I've pulled out of this event. I didn't feel comfortable going ahead given strike action by BL staff. Asked about rescheduling, but was told this won't be possible. Sad I won't get to celebrate this MS so central to my work, but this feels like the right way to go.

Very disappointed to share that I've pulled out of this event. I didn't feel comfortable going ahead given strike action by BL staff. Asked about rescheduling, but was told this won't be possible. Sad I won't get to celebrate this MS so central to my work, but this feels like the right way to go.

Working on my talk for this, next week. Please come if you are free, in London, and fancy a glass of wine with me at the BL.

Took my 4 year old to the National Gallery on his inset day and let him take pictures of all the paintings he loved. Perfect rainy morning ❤️

I never see my family at the actual holidays but this year they came early for a week. We did Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas in one weekend. Now I think I'm going to just sleep til spring.

Explaining the Regency and Romantic period to my little guy @ the National Portrait Gallery

Lovely display of women travel writers at the National Portrait Gallery

Readers, it was delightful. Wonderful to hear BL manuscript curator Catherine Angerson introducing the talks as well.

Mary Astell and Slavery in Newcastle Tuesday I had the great honour of giving the 2025 Antognazza lecture, the annual lecture of the British Society for the History of Philosophy. This took place in Newcastle, in the beautiful Phil and Lit library. My talk was on Mary Astell and her claim that…

Very excited to hear @devoney.bsky.social speak at the BL tonight, with a bit of fan girl excitement also reserved for Susannah Harker (Jane Bennett in the '95 P&P) ❤️

Ok. As a Romantic scholar, should I watch the new Frankenstein, or will it just make me mad?

Since becoming a parent of a school-aged child, this definitely feels more and more like the bad place. How will this help anyone?

Henry Tilney read the entirety of The Mysteries of Udolpho in only TWO DAYS! This is what phones have taken from us.

I love living in Sussex, but I do feel homesick for America, even with all of its (enormous/scary) problems. Spent morning listening to NPR between writing feedback for workshop tomorrow, & making minestrone. Love hearing the weather report from my hometown, thinking about everyone still sleeping.

What?!? Filmmaker Mira Nair is the new NYC mayor's mom? Like Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala Mira Nair?? I already liked this situation but... wow. She is the ultimate babe. It all makes sense.

I love that the Bluesky community exists and can help with things like this in the absence of the little blue bird site, which I sometimes miss. (taken care of now, thank you!)

Can anyone access either of these sources for me? Looking to get the Intros as PDFs. muse.jhu.edu/book/128860/ www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...

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

It was such an EXCELLENT day. Trains, coffees, manuscripts reading room, snake weights. FIVE STARS.

I am visiting the BL tomorrow for RESEARCH & to look at a MANUSCRIPT. After a year of maternity leave, then taking time to start a new business, this feels EXCITING (& worthy of caps). Can anyone advise on the situation for ordering books/MS in reading rooms? Last visit, it was still paper slips.

Now would be a great time to check out this BBC radio 4 series on the far right and racism in Britain by the amazing Camilla Schofield. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Thinking this morning about the importance of writing, reading, creative practice. Not only do the stories we tell have political power, writing allows us to reconnect with parts of ourselves and subverts the noise we've all gotten so used to. Wishing everyone a quiet moment this weekend.

Thinking this morning about the importance of writing, reading, creative practice. Not only do the stories we tell have political power, writing allows us to reconnect with parts of ourselves and subverts the noise we've all gotten so used to. Wishing everyone a quiet moment this weekend.

Shocked that I received a (small) royalty payment for my monograph today. I thought they were a bit like unicorns 🦄 📖 I'm happy that people are out there reading this lovely thing boydellandbrewer.com/book/transna...

As the new academic year starts here in Cambridge, my thoughts turn towards libraries... I wrote about the extraordinary Mary Paley Marshall, who co-founded the Marshall Library of Economics in 1925, and worked there until her 90s.

Writing Historical Non-Fiction Weekend 7-9 November One space has become available on this sold-out workshop. Join us for an inspiring bonfire weekend in autumnal East Sussex and develop (or start) your project. www.starcroftfarm.co.uk/weekendretre...

Please send your writer friends, former students and lovers my way!