Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while

Day 2 of #GlobalAusten250 and I mainly pretended to be @rjdashwood.bsky.social (in my drag persona of Regina Blitz), thinking about sexy memes and epistolary detective work

Day 2 of the #GlobalAusten250 Conference. The sea witch (aka hay fever) stole my voice, which means that @drbeard79.bsky.social delivered the drag show of a lifetime by reading my paper for me on my FWO-funded research. Had a great time listening to his own fabulous paper on Netflix’s Persuasion!

A fabulous first day at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference in Southampton with some really great papers on Austen adaptations and tourism! The highlight for me was @devoney.bsky.social’s paper about the Pride and Prejudice adaptations that never were - can’t wait for her upcoming book, Wild for Austen!

Welcoming everyone to #GlobalAusten250, Gillian Dow coins a GREAT collective noun: an intelligence of Austenians

In Southampton and excited to see everyone at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference tomorrow!

So excited for this tomorrow!! 😊

Got £50 from Routledge today which *might* be profit on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous? Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)? You can buy / request it for your library here:

You co-write one article with @drbeard79.bsky.social about Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA. with the word ‘shark’ in the title and this is what happens 😂

2 years ago I was in Brussels for my FWO interview 😊 Cut to right now and I’m halfway through my project at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900 (Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)

Reading the diaries of a nineteenth-century female estate owner where she writes that she lectured a female servant for getting married and “not being proclaimed.” Why would her mistress lecture her for not proclaiming her banns? Because something could have been found out about the groom? Curious🧐

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

I had such a great time today watching @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island with my MA students as part of my Jane Austen in Popular Culture module 😊🏳️‍🌈 (Though it was a little disconcerting to realise, during one of my favourite scenes, that they had never listened to Britney Spears’s Sometimes!)

I was wondering if there are any academics here who have experience in producing both outputs for the general public and academic outputs out of a single research project, such as an academic monograph and a trade book. If so, please DM me, I would love to hear about how it can be done 🙂

Howdy, y'all! 🤠 I have a new article just out in @jofvictculture.bsky.social - If you want to read about Doc Holliday, L.T Meade, & Victorian discourses of Tuberculosis & Murder then check it out here: academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-... You're a daisy of you do! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Now that the birthday of the person this was a gift for has passed, I can share the gorgeous commission that my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social made for me 🤩

I missed @BSECS last year, so I'm even more excited to be making my way to Oxford today for this year's conference. I will be presenting on Wednesday on Mary Verney’s inheritance of Claydon House, as part of my research for my Heiress project at Ghent. Looking forward to seeing everyone! #BSECS2025

Finally, the only academic book of the list: ‘Reading the Romantic Ridiculous’ by @drbeard79.bsky.social and @rjdashwood.bsky.social! It was so lovely to read the culmination of a project that was quite instrumental in getting me really into Romanticism 🥰

My 2024 reading wrap-up/top 10! A thread!

I wrote a book! With the wonderful @rjdashwood.bsky.social! Even after this came out, I found myself defaulting to ‘what have I achieved this year? Nothing and again nothing’. Ridiculous!

Fire Island titbit (only slightly making me want to rewrite our article on Noah and Howie as Lizzy and Jane to incorporate fresh info)!!!

@ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island has been my favourite reimagining of a Jane Austen novel since @drbeard79.bsky.social first introduced me to it, and we were filled with love for this movie when we wrote this, now out on Austen’s own birthday! 🎁 www.jasna.org/publications...

We wrote ‘Adapting Jane Austen’s “Hetero Nonsense”…’ with love in our hearts for @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social and his Fire Island and hope he loves the resulting article!

It’s Jane Austen’s birthday today, and it would make my day - month, year! - if you ordered my books (the first on her, the second featuring her, and co-written with the fab @drbeard79.bsky.social) for yourself or your library 😊 www.peterlang.com/document/125... www.routledge.com/Reading-the-...

Waking up on the birthday of the GOAT, Jane Austen, to see that my article with @drbeard79.bsky.social, has been published in Persuasions today to mark the date 🥳 www.jasna.org/publications...

It’s Austen’s birthday! Treat yourself by having a read of the new issue of Persuasions Online - published to coincide! And featuring our own @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social 🥳

It’s Jane Austen’s birthday 🥳 and Persuasions Online is published to celebrate (cute!) - check it out! @triciamatthew.bsky.social is in it! And so are @rjdashwood.bsky.social and me (scroll *right* to the bottom 😂!) www.jasna.org/publications...

So proud of both of these 😁

DELIGHTED to see @rjdashwood.bsky.social and my book Reading the Romantic Ridiculous under the (egotistically) sublime eye of Wordsworth at the Jerwood Centre in Grasmere - Jeff Costin and all were lovely to work with for our ‘Ridiculous Romantic Portraits’ exhibition

This was the most fun I’ve ever had writing anything, and it’s almost at 1000 views!! 😃🥳

Could anyone recommend any criticism on Margaret Oliphant, as well as biographies and editions of her autobiography and letters? Thank you in advance! 🙂

My gorgeous birthday present, made by my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social 😍💛🦆

Can anyone recommend sources on women and political economy in the nineteenth century? I’m thinking about the perception of old money vs new money, as well as the prejudice that women would be inactive in money and property management due to their gender. Please and thank you 🙂

Such a great article by Ted Chiang on AI: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Check out our Oscars style acknowledgements for Reading the Romantic Ridiculous - we try and thank EVERYONE!

Also a reminder to go & order this fun & fantastic-looking new book for your institutional library, authored by the amazing @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social (I knew them before they were famous 😉)

Finally our last chapter provides a narrative of our experience working on two exhibitions in the Lake District inspired by our ridiculous project, muses on its impact, and thinks about future work it might inspire!

Then @rjdashwood.bsky.social takes over for a chapter on vulnerability in young adult fiction starting with Fire Island before reading various Austen-inspired teen fictions before looping back to Charlotte Smith’s #18thC YA fictions

My FAVOURITE chapter borrows a conceit from Richter of staging a series of lectures on a theme starting with silliness in Pride and Prejudice, moving on to comedy in The Woman of Colour, and finishing with more silliness in BBC’s Ghosts

Chapter 1 begins with the High Romanticism of Wordsworth and Coleridge and joins them falling down various mountains before jumping ahead to the wonderful film The Trouble with Nature which ties together themes of ridiculousness, failure, and finitude

Our introduction looks at definitions of the ridiculous from Longinus to Kant alongside theories of the silly, low, and vulnerable today adopting Jean Paul Richter - a novelist, satirist, and philosopher who enjoyed playing with paratexts - as a ridiculous guide

A little thread on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous (available for pre-order now) 🧵 👇

Check out our own @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s new book Reading the Romantic Ridiculous:

So happy to say that Reading the Romantic Ridiculous, the book @drbeard79 and I wrote together, is now out with Routledge! 😃 www.routledge.com/Reading-the-...

Obligatory author holding new book photo (must get together with @rjdashwood.bsky.social for proper co-author photo moment!)

You can pre-order (should you have a spare £100+ lying around*) @rjdashwood.bsky.social and my Reading the Romantic Ridiculous * The price tag is Routledge really getting behind our ridiculous theme!

🚨3 days left 🚨to book on to @rjdashwood.bsky.social ’s ‘Women, Property & Economics’ event with some fantastic speakers! ⭐️ The women heiresses of Jane Austen & their real-life counterparts! ⭐️ Women as business owners ⭐️ Industrialisation & ownership And more! 👇 #c19 www.eventbrite.com/e/women-busi...

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The @bars.bsky.social 2024 conference ‘Romantic Making and Unmaking’ looks INCREDIBLE! Join @rjdashwood.bsky.social, me, and a roll-call of great scholars for various panels on Romantic Remakes starting on Wednesday 24th July at 9 am! #BARS2024

I’m wondering: can anyone think of other books like Carolyn Steedman’s Master and Servant, in which novels are used to shed light on an aspect of history on which we lack primary sources, and that consider the relationship between literature and history?