Nineteenth Circle

Multimedia performances of 19th century work. Committed to diversifying the voice. Music. Poetry. Theatre. Since 2020.

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Welcome to new members of our twitter community!

Keep an eye out for our pilot programme "(Un)shackled", incl voices from the turn of the 19C (Romantic poets - enslaved people - proto-feminists), commenting on both the French & Haitian Revolutions.

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Yet another brilliant day with some extraordinary performers reading #poetry #literature & other text from the long #nineteenthcentury. Watch this space 👀

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With heartfelt thanks to the Victorian Pumpkin Fiction Association we are pleased to announce a Halloween Pumpkin Carving Competition. Organised by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, the competition is open to members and non-members. 1/7

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Last but most certainly not least, we were delighted to be able to welcome @jenniferballads, despite difficulties imposed by #COVID19. Jennifer is a performer of #19thC Industrial Revolution #broadside ballads and Lancashire dialect work song.

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Our penultimate "Sick-room" performer is Nigerian British, poet, playwright, performer, educator & lawyer @ToluAgbelusi. A BBC Slam finalist, she was shortlisted for the #WhiteReview Poetry Prize. In '20 @JacarandaBooks published her debut poetry collection, #LocatingStrongwoman.

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We're delighted to introduce another brilliant performer, @malarkeyme. Annie is a previous winner of the @bbcproms Young Poet Award & is an alumni of the #BarbicanYoungPoets & @STWevents's #LondonWritersAward.

Can't wait to work together again Annie!

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Final entry in our Sick-room collection is a rough one. Read by @ToluAgbelusi, #FrancesBurney describes, in a letter to her sister (1812), a double-mastectomy w/o anaesthetic. It presents a #19thC first-person description by a woman of her own pain.

https://t.co/wYRfp0qzB9

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Another work in our "Sick-room" collection, commissioned by @thespacearts.

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This excerpt from Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" (1868), read by @malarkeyme, depicts a #19thC fear of social stigma & rejection. Doctor Ezra Jennings, being himself ill as a result of his addiction to opium, worries that he's to be hounded out of town.

https://t.co/MqfBS1JUA4

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In August 1854 a severe cholera outbreak occurred in London's Soho area

167 years later, during the Covid pandemic, we remember #JohnSnow's "On the Mode of Communication of Cholera", read by @jsamlarose for The Sick-room, commissioned by @thespacearts

Thanks to @cockpittheatre

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Keyboardist @tomharpsichord is a principal with the @EnglishConcert & regularly performs with the world's leading early-music ensembles. His playing on an 1826 #Graf in our #Schumann recording is well worth checking out.

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Oboist @DuarteleoLeo is principal chair of the #AcademyofAncientMusic & member of @theoae. A huge privilege to include his playing amongst our earliest work, here's to next time🍸

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During the week of the 165th anniversary of Robert Schumann's death, our Sick-room collection (commissioned by @thespacearts) continues with this blazing recording of his Three Romances by @DuarteleoLeo & @tomharpsichord.

With thanks to @finchcockspiano.

https://t.co/kNgtWTlb4l

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A big thank-you to @BellaCox19 who joined our group of poets with her fantastic reading of #MaryShelley's The Last Man.

You can discover more of her work here - https://t.co/H2t5mjhY29

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This week in the "Sick Room", commissioned by
@thespacearts, an amusing interlude in the shape of a comic broadside by John Morgan.

"The Wonderful Pills" sung by @jenniferballads. For 2 other songs in a similar vein, visit our YT.

#c19th #Victorian

https://t.co/qXgi4oIU4o

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This week in the "Sick Room", commissioned by @thespacearts, #MaryShelley's haunting study in isolation.

An excerpt from "The Last Man" (1826), read by
@BellaCox19.

#c19th #Victorian

https://t.co/qGlTqdSDsx

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Introducing this week's wonderful performer, @rachelnalong. Rachel is the founder of the Octavia Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour, whose work can be found here - https://t.co/8f5cWhQU7f

#poetry #PoetsTwitter

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Today in the "Sick Room", commissioned by @thespacearts, we celebrate the birth-week of American writer & social reformist #CharlottePerkinsGilman.

An excerpt from "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892), read by
@rachelnalong.

#c19th #Victorian

https://t.co/ZDnYc891bw

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Nigerian-British poet & actor @GabrielAkamo is this week's performer, with his reading of #MarySeacole's fascinating autobiography.

We're thrilled to have worked with him! You can check out his other work @ https://t.co/hxlSrDZvJE

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Today in the "Sick Room", commissioned by @thespacearts, on the 5th Anniversary of the @seacolestatue.

Excerpts from "Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands" (1857) by British-Jamaican nurse #MarySeacole, read by @GabrielAkamo.

#c19th

Link https://t.co/1CsrwJDk1k

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Attached is a reading/performance of The Locust Tree by Guianese poet Egbert Martin, read by Remi Graves. A brilliant work by an underrated poet. Many thanks to Nineteenth Circle @19th_circle for this recording. https://t.co/Bnz9gyxEgl