Dr Kim Simpson

Deputy Director at Chawton House. Joyously poking about in C18 literature. Views my own, especially those pertaining to cheese and the Eurovision Song Contest.

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

Adds amusing insult from Frances Burney to the mental store.

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

@kerriandrewsuk God that is appalling. So sorry to hear it.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

To celebrate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday, here are his 46 best (and strangest) insults:

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

The replies are the reason I'm still on Twitter.

[Mark Arby @markarby]

Not sure how it happened but a bus crashed into a building near Tottenham Court Road Station. Police, Fire Brigade and ambulance in attendance.

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

Relatable

[James Boswell @jamesboswellesq]

I was dull. (25 Nov 1787)

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

Really enjoyed talking to Monica Ali and Henry Eliot, the host of On the Road with Penguin Classics for the first of this fantastic podcast series:

[ChawtonHouse @ChawtonHouse]

We are delighted to appear in the On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast on Jane Austen in Chawton, with novelist Monica Ali.

Listen here: https://t.co/GbeOSCWw1W

Penguin Classics

#ChawtonHouse #chawton #podcasts #penguinbooks #penguinbooksuk

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

@barbara_franchi Saw the news and immediately thought of you. Lovely to have this memory of her from early career days.

[Dr Ella Hawkins @EllaMcHawk]

Started designing some new business cards. Got distracted by 18th-century trade cards.

Made biscuit (cookie) versions of those instead. 🍪

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

@kerriandrewsuk Wonderful- congratulations on the book, it's top of my birthday list for October!

[ChawtonHouse @ChawtonHouse]

A fab Day 1 of the #QuillsandCharacters conference, with panels on epistolary novels, letters & instruction, posthumous reputations, intimacy & duplicity, & Jane Austen. And a brilliant keynote by Nicole Pohl on the @Montagu_Letters project. Thanks to all who joined us!

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

@EmmaHills_01 @MaryHam27161932 @gdow12 Super news! Many congratulations Emma 🎊

[ChawtonHouse @ChawtonHouse]

#TuesdayTreasures
"Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds."
Our first edition of Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies was published in 1694 & is one of the earlier works on display in the upcoming Treasures exhibition.

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

@LeahWW Sorry for your loss - actions that might seem small to the giver can have such profound effects, and what lovely memories to carry of someone 🖤

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

@LeithDavis Aww, hope you enjoy it. I'd be more than happy to talk to your students online about it after it's closed - do get in touch if that's of interest 🙂

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

@IsabellaRosner Well the responses have given me great enjoyment. Not sure what is but would be interested to see what it is coiled around - was thinking of the slightly odd things bereaved Victorians did with hair.

[ChawtonHouse @ChawtonHouse]

Just 2 days left to submit abstracts for our online conference #QuillsandCharacters on women's letters, 1-2 September 2023: https://t.co/4ayHaFuSEG
#letterwriting #womenswriting #recoveryproject #biography #handwriting #stationery #epistolary #digitisation #transcription

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

Thanks to Marilyn Francus & fellow contributors, but also especially to @gdow12 who, during her time at Chawton House, made so much of what I write about happen, and has made so much of what we do now possible.

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

Dr Kim Simpson@AmatoryAnon·14sDelighted to have an essay: 'Chawton House and its Library: Legacies and Futures' published in a special issue of Aphra Behn Online on shaping the legacies of C18 women writers: https://t.co/tX2b9Gx9m6

[Dr Kim Simpson @AmatoryAnon]

Happy birthday to Frances Burney!

[ChawtonHouse @ChawtonHouse]

Today we celebrate Burney's comic flair. The following witty takedown is spoken by Mrs Selwyn in Burney's first novel, Evelina (1778): ‘Don’t be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.’