Marisa (she/her)

literary salon host // English literature MA // this is not another book club

[Marisa (she/her) @lesalonreads]

Hey #readers and #booktwt! I host monthly virtual #book discussions on classic & modern novels and I'd love for you to join! Here is the schedule (and keep you eye out to grab that 40% off code to try your first virtual literary salon!): https://t.co/XqFfpIMqQ1

[Dr Helena Kelly @MsAshtonDennis]

I never cease to be amazed by how much information Austen can pack into a paragraph, and with no apparent effort. She rarely wastes a word.

[Marisa (she/her) @lesalonreads]

@Wordsworthians Immediately in the running for a tattoo!

[Nathalie Vincent @awlilnatty]

The only perspective on AI that matters

[Marisa (she/her) @lesalonreads]

@rebeccarightnow 👏👏👏

[Madeline Potter @madeline_cct]

Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published #OTD in 1897. Since then, it’s never gone out of print, and it’s been crucial in shaping many of the vampire tropes we know and love today. Here’s a photo of the first edition. What’s your favourite thing about Dracula?

[katy moukakou @princessekateri]

“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”

~ Alice Munro
R.I.P.

[Dr Helena Kelly @MsAshtonDennis]

Enjoyed this by @history_alice on how the world of work was opening up for non-aristocratic women during the Regency.

Austen's novels include a surprising number of working women: there are housekeepers, governesses, teachers, nurses and business-owners.

https://t.co/GTkur9wXro

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

you should get a certain number of “reading days” per year along with your allotted sick days, so that you can phone your boss and say “I can’t come in to work today, I’m reading in bed” and then you spend the day reading in bed

[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves."⁠

Writer and founder of modern British feminism Mary Wollstonecraft was born #onthisday in 1759.

📍 On display in Room 12 on Floor 3

🎨 Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie, circa 1797 © NPG, London

[Sally Ashworth @ashworthwriter]

My 14yo had made a ‘Book Boyfriends’ Guess Who and is playing it with her 21yo sister ❤️

[Andrew Brunatti @AndrewBrunatti]

If you missed the livestream on Castlereagh and mental health, you can watch the replay here!

Thanks so much to @HistSymposium for having me—it was a great discussion.

[✨ Tara Wine-Queen Writes ✨ @TaraWineQueen]

Neil Gaiman’s story about imposter syndrome rewired my brain.

[fran @galacticidiots]

Emily Dickinson was so right. “I wish you a kinder sea.” I wish you gentle waves that swirl around your waist and wash away your hurts. Currents that don’t drag you down, but take you on faraway adventures. I wish you soft endings, like when the sun kisses the ocean when it sets.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

Frantically searching for the “please leave me alone” cup

[Andrew Brunatti @AndrewBrunatti]

Very much looking forward to talking about Castlereagh and mental health @HistSymposium on April 20th!

[Marisa (she/her) @lesalonreads]

@headlinepg @SureAsMel I talk about IWWV a number of times on my blog and Instagram (@lesalonreads)... Plus I host online book discussions with readers in Canada, the US, and Brazil!

[✨ Tara Wine-Queen Writes ✨ @TaraWineQueen]

The absolute FUMBLE that is Disney not having a bookstore in the parks that is Belle’s library-themed blows my mind. You’d just need to put in rolling ladders along the bookshelves and bookish Disnerds everywhere would sprain their wrists they’d be throwing money at you so hard

[Nnedi Okorafor, PhD🕷️ @Nnedi]

YES. All this.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

There's nothing sadder than seeing universities cut their arts and humanities departments. Literature, philosophy, poetry, these are things that nourish and sustain the human spirit. They are necessary for us to flourish.