Katie Bell 🇵🇸
@decadentdickens.bsky.social
Victorianist & PhD in Dickens studies. High school educator in Atlanta. Blog editor for the Dickens Society. Trekkie. Founder of Ga Herp Association. www.gaherp.com
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I love the #PeterRabbit stories and illustrations by #BeatrixPotter and once saved up my allowance to buy a pencil box depicting Peter Rabbit, but I did some work for Joel Chandler Harris’s Wren’s Nest in Atlanta when I was finishing my graduate degree, and discovered something fascinating! A 🧵
October 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I love the #PeterRabbit stories and illustrations by #BeatrixPotter and once saved up my allowance to buy a pencil box depicting Peter Rabbit, but I did some work for Joel Chandler Harris’s Wren’s Nest in Atlanta when I was finishing my graduate degree, and discovered something fascinating! A 🧵
Tickled that this story in a random book I picked up of Irish Literature is the spitting image of Uncle Colm’s dialogue from Derry Girls.
July 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Tickled that this story in a random book I picked up of Irish Literature is the spitting image of Uncle Colm’s dialogue from Derry Girls.
Hello, reader! Interested in hearing about gory horror stories? Come to my free lecture next Wednesday! It’s virtual and free.
February 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Hello, reader! Interested in hearing about gory horror stories? Come to my free lecture next Wednesday! It’s virtual and free.
Went to the Root House in Cobb County and it was all done up for Christmas! Very accurately, too.
December 11, 2024 at 11:49 PM
Went to the Root House in Cobb County and it was all done up for Christmas! Very accurately, too.
Was gifted the FULL SET of Pop figure Muppets Xmas Carol characters at work today. 🎄 I used them to enact a brief summary of the plot to kids who don’t know either reference. 👌
December 6, 2024 at 9:54 PM
Was gifted the FULL SET of Pop figure Muppets Xmas Carol characters at work today. 🎄 I used them to enact a brief summary of the plot to kids who don’t know either reference. 👌
Just some little guys. Doin little guy things…
November 28, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Just some little guys. Doin little guy things…
For all the #Dracula fans out there: I’m reading it fully for the first time and I have some questions. Chiefly, the sub plot surrounding Whitby. I know Carfax Abbey is based on Whitby but as it’s in London, why does the Demeter land in Whitby if greater London is the destination?
November 27, 2024 at 10:37 PM
For all the #Dracula fans out there: I’m reading it fully for the first time and I have some questions. Chiefly, the sub plot surrounding Whitby. I know Carfax Abbey is based on Whitby but as it’s in London, why does the Demeter land in Whitby if greater London is the destination?
@richardfallon.bsky.social Is this the guy: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
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November 27, 2024 at 10:29 PM
@richardfallon.bsky.social Is this the guy: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
Gone into full old-British-lady mode.
November 27, 2024 at 10:59 AM
Gone into full old-British-lady mode.
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I’m absolutely delighted to share the cover of my book, which will be published by @uncpress.bsky.social this fall. Many thanks to the design team at the Press and everybody who made this possible.
March 21, 2024 at 4:41 PM
I’m absolutely delighted to share the cover of my book, which will be published by @uncpress.bsky.social this fall. Many thanks to the design team at the Press and everybody who made this possible.
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Delighted to share our new YouTube video of artist Gerry Mooney, creating his linoleum cutting illustrations for “Bleak House”!
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March 21, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Delighted to share our new YouTube video of artist Gerry Mooney, creating his linoleum cutting illustrations for “Bleak House”!
youtu.be/wd_80NIiuEI?...
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Fresh new blog post is up: “Those ‘Dark Spirits’ Within Us: Interpretive Power & the Legacy of Fandom”, which delves into the wonderful Miss Wade of “Little Dorrit”. dickenssociety.org/archives/4310
March 19, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Fresh new blog post is up: “Those ‘Dark Spirits’ Within Us: Interpretive Power & the Legacy of Fandom”, which delves into the wonderful Miss Wade of “Little Dorrit”. dickenssociety.org/archives/4310
Big blep tonite.
February 28, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Big blep tonite.
Peer reviewer 1 comment that I’m living high on today: Bell obviously knows Dickens but….and I’m going to stop my hyper focusing at that ‘but’.
January 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Peer reviewer 1 comment that I’m living high on today: Bell obviously knows Dickens but….and I’m going to stop my hyper focusing at that ‘but’.
This new student loan plan is making me feel insane. I pay MORE now than I did pre-Covid because I make (marginally) more as a county employee, but it doesn’t count for inflation. I also feel as if my married with children friends pay less than me. Shouldn’t I be rewarded for staying childless? 😂
January 8, 2024 at 1:22 AM
This new student loan plan is making me feel insane. I pay MORE now than I did pre-Covid because I make (marginally) more as a county employee, but it doesn’t count for inflation. I also feel as if my married with children friends pay less than me. Shouldn’t I be rewarded for staying childless? 😂
Found objects in my 1980s edition of “Pickwick Papers” from my time living in Leicester.
December 31, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Found objects in my 1980s edition of “Pickwick Papers” from my time living in Leicester.
Any Dickensians on here?! I need to read 1 letter in Pilgrim Ed of Dickens’s letters, Volume 4?
December 30, 2023 at 2:25 AM
Any Dickensians on here?! I need to read 1 letter in Pilgrim Ed of Dickens’s letters, Volume 4?
In this weird dreamy time between Christmas and New Year’s, I am drafting some thoughts on “The Signal-Man.”
December 29, 2023 at 9:46 PM
In this weird dreamy time between Christmas and New Year’s, I am drafting some thoughts on “The Signal-Man.”
Olivia’s first Christmas! She’s a total blur.
December 25, 2023 at 11:18 PM
Olivia’s first Christmas! She’s a total blur.
Well—did the house up nice. Got out the 100 year old pine cone china print. Mulled some Smoking Bishop. And then—my 25 lb. cat announced himself by throwing up on the floor next to the dinner table AND using the litter box with his bottom hanging out so all my guests could see. Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2023 at 5:00 AM
Well—did the house up nice. Got out the 100 year old pine cone china print. Mulled some Smoking Bishop. And then—my 25 lb. cat announced himself by throwing up on the floor next to the dinner table AND using the litter box with his bottom hanging out so all my guests could see. Merry Christmas!