Linda Grant - Early Modernist

Literary scholar, obsessive reader, working on Renaissance and classical bodies, gender and sexuality, women's writing, classical reception

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

"These bloody days have broken my heart. | My lust, my youth did them depart" - music and poetry from the royal courts @SocAntiquaries with @Passamezzo tonight!

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

"Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms | I filled with love, and she all over charms"... To find out what happens next join us tomorrow night @SocAntiquaries

[Birkbeck Student Uprising ✊ @BbkUprising]

💭 Thoughts on yesterday’s 'Question Time' with @DlatchmanCBE @matt1nnes @BirkbeckUoL, a thread.

Dear God someone #SaveBirkbeck!

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

Obsessed with Sanditon? Us too (despite the tragic loss of Theo James)... Hear more about the role of the Caribbean in Austen's fiction.

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

I'll be thinking about how Walcott is in dialogue with Homer, Athenian tragedy and Greek myth (Philoctetes) via James Joyce's Ulysses - join me for discussions about wounds, women and other words beginning with W!

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

This promises to be a fascinating day - please pass on to colleagues, friends and students - the conference is free, and has a stellar line up of speakers.

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

Reading this now when I should be working...but Sappho receptions is kind of work, isn't it? 😉

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

A joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers from the past, as they battle for control over their lives, for liberation and for justice.

https://t.co/ech918aVId

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

Oops, forgot to #namethetranslator so thanks to Sam Bett and David Boyd

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

Started #womenintranslation month with Heaven by Mieko Kawakami - absolutely brutal but unputdownable
#dailyWIT #WITMonth

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

Started #womenintranslation month with Heaven by Mieko Kawakami - absolutely brutal but unputdownable
#dailyWIT #WITMonth

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

@keimiller Hi Kei, don't know if you remember me from Royal Holloway (evenings drinking in Egham!) Would love to invite you to do a keynote address at a conference on Caribbean literature I'm co-organising, would love to email you more details, but can't find an email for you :(

[Read More Women @WomenRead]

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

Katherine Mansfield was born #OnThisDay in 1888 #ReadMoreWomen

[Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich]

One of my students suggested that sonnets are like the Twitter of Elizabethan poetry, and I thought you all should know that.

[Danielle W Higgins @DanielleWHigg]

Really enjoying this lecture on #TheBoleyns by @Regina_Saba & @DrEstellePrnq for @SocAntiquaries Fascinating account of this infamous family & delivered in such an engaging way. If you love the #Tudors you can catch up on YouTube below.

[Read More Women @WomenRead]

Our words bumping into other’s words
flying through cyber space
will create a universe of poetry in cyber clouds
of ever expanding immensity
of ever expanding immensity
becoming finite in the print-out of pages.

Nina Serrano was born #OnThisDay in 1934 #ReadMoreWomen

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

Nice to know even Simone de Beauvoir had an unpublished novel stashed in her drawer! No.3 in my #WITMonth
#TheInseperables

[mary beard @wmarybeard]

A little scandal going on in central London...'learned societies' sound like the past but let me say they are a thing of the future. Read morer here https://t.co/bj4Lo19cNj

[Jonathan Willis (@drjpw.bsky.social) @drjpwillis]

Disappointed to discover that my C16th letter's use of the term 'openarse' is not an insult but refers to the fruit of the medlar tree.

[Monisha Rajesh @monisha_rajesh]

My final word on this whole fiasco that has taken a huge toll on me, @chimenesuleyman and @ProfSunnySingh
https://t.co/JvoDQDbfNn

[Linda Grant - Early Modernist @LClassicist]

I wonder if cooked lettuce was served with beaver tails, apparently a Tudor delicacy - mmm!

[Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe]

Fascinating how Tudor cookery makes a return! ‘Cooked’ lettuce as part of a delicious dinner at @barnhambroom