Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦

History professor, Austen fanatic, writer, vocalist, seamstress, actress, Anglophile, ice cream addict, dancer, and Catholic, not necessarily in that order.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

Incidentally, the event in question is a Valentine's Ball in Petersburg, Virginia. If you'd be interested in more info, you can find it here! https://t.co/i4m15i3Hm6

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

Finished a new Regency dress last weekend, but until I've worn it to the event for which it was intended, I'll just post a teaser pic, because I am also very pleased with my hair.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

You know what? I listened to this yesterday for the first time since recording it, and lo! I actually sound more articulate than I could have hoped for. Please lend it an ear and pass it around. Dance, costume, & life-changing memories of Colonial Williamsburg all feature.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

Some days, I feel like a real historian! Many, many thanks to Al Zambone, who contacted me for the interview. https://t.co/hEOwIydXbA

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

Some days, I feel like a real historian! Many, many thanks to Al Zambone, who contacted me for the interview. https://t.co/hEOwIydXbA

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

My anxiety is getting the better of me, disrupting my sleep and stressing my body. I would appreciate some prayers that I might leave this in God's hands, accept His will, and trust in his comfort.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

The poster for the upcoming Wuthering Heights film is so shockingly classic, it could easily be a colorized photo from the golden age of cinema. However, its momentarily-pleasing aesthetic is still a woefully insufficient inducement to suffer through the movie itself.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

Asking for prayers for safe travels and comfort for my husband and his extended family over the next few days as they convene for a funeral Mass.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

I feel as though, if I lived in Britain, I could get in on this "celebrity historian" thing. Somehow, Americans don't have it mastered to the same level.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

@Lucy_Worsley Any chance you're coming to the other end of the Colonial Parkway to visit Jamestown Island while you're in the area?

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

@SecretFire79 Very torn between 6 and 8.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

Note: I was *not* promoting hatred of America.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

My CSPAN lecture must be airing frequently again, because in the past week I've gotten two complimentary messages of thanks and one telling me I was promoting hatred of America. Go figure.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

Bacon's Rebellion play script: first draft complete, except for three sets of lyrics. Won't be long now until I can get working on music as well....

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

@SunnySideUp2517 If she isn't already aware of the resources available from the good folks at Let Them Live, maybe it's an option she'd be willing to investigate: https://t.co/sHSoIbwsy9

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

Reviewing assigned readings for tomorrow's class and struck once again by the coincidence that two of the most beloved Governors of Virginia during the colonial period were both Berkeleys: first, my fake husband Sir William, and a century later, Lord Botetourt.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

@ibmmiller Oooh, this is a fascinating idea, and I'd say it's true of me as well. That was the age at which I first discovered Austen, but I also read the Redwall series and The Scarlet Pimpernel, which were absolutely formative.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

@JVMonte2 Glenn Miller, the Best of the Secret Recordings & Lost Broadcasts. I was 12, and it was life-changing.

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

@dlongenecker1 YES! I've visited several of the houses in which he's presumed to have constructed the priest-holes, and Harvington Hall was especially memorable. But that car....you'll basically be living my dream vacation! And I want to live it vicariously. Please write about it!

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

I don't want to speak too soon, but I'm starting to make some progress on my Bacon's Rebellion script, and my enthusiasm for the project has reignited. Admittedly, I'm only on Act I Sc III, but stay tuned!

[Amy Stallings 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇻🇦 @janeite06]

I am a grown-up, a history professor, and a museum professional, yet I still cannot face the prospect of writing a concluding paragraph and will procrastinate with pretty much anything else first.