I am not procrastinating, I am simply getting into the head-space of Elizabeth Gaskell.
Having not written a line of North and South for over three weeks, and feeling that what she had written was dull, she remained hopeful that she could 'still make it good' (Letters, p.290)
What's a siege got to do with Dracula? Everything. Siege's usually involve and end when the food and water run out and people are forced into survival cannibalism!
Throwback podcast short from August 2024! https://t.co/f8uDc33X9O
Is Emma Woodhouse a BiCon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?
#otd in 1884 Richard Parker, a 17-year-old cabin boy was killed so the remaining crew of the shipwrecked Mignonette could survive on his blood and body.
The crew had been at sea in an open boat for 20 days with only two tins of dry turnips, one turtle, and no fresh water.
A @AllYearRoundPod throwback from July 2024! Inspired by some of the feedback that Oxford World Classics got as part of its 'Guess the title' for Women's History Month that year.
My summer in Southampton included: walking the Jane Austen trail, a flying visit to Tudor House and Gardens, touring the Titanic exhibition at SeaCity, hiking through the Royal Country Park to see the famous Victorian Hospital that Arthur Conan Doyle's Dr Watson attended!
It's now under two weeks until the event of the summer kicks off βοΈ
If you're coming to the Global Austen conference I'd love to know so I'll be able to recognise some friendly faces!
#globalausten2025#janeausten#janeaustenconference
Have you ever heard of From Mansfield With Love?
Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!
#OTD in 1743 Anna Laetitia Barbauld was born. She was a renowned poet, children's author, shrewd editor, and an insightful essayist. Here are some of my very favourite quotes from 'On the Origins and Progress of Novel-Writing' a preface to the British Novelists (1810).