I need new podcasts! Bonus points if anyone manages to find one dedicated to Elizabeth Gaskell

What's a siege got to do with Dracula? Everything. Siege's usually involve and end when the food and water run out and people are forced into survival cannibalism!

The ventilated corset, a solution to tropical living for the Victorian lady www.instagram.com/reel/DNBII_8...

Fashion icon, Miss Matty 💅

Throwback podcast short from August 2024! www.instagram.com/p/DM70PezN9Il/

Is Emma Woodhouse a bicon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?

Edmund Bertram 😒

Edward Ferrars 🙄

They're both bad, but who's worse?

♥️⬇️ to vote

A podcast throwback from July 2024! Inspired by some of the feedback that Oxford World Classics got as part of its 'Guess the title' for Women's History Month that year.

My summer in Southampton included: walking the Jane Austen trail, a flying visit to Tudor House and Gardens, touring the Titanic exhibition at SeaCity, hiking through the Royal Country Park to see the famous Victorian Hospital that Arthur Conan Doyle's Dr Watson attended.

#otd in 1884 Richard Parker, a 17-year-old cabin boy was killed so the remaining crew of the shipwrecked Mignonette could survive on his blood and body.

The crew had been at sea in an open boat for 20 days with only two tins of dry turnips, one turtle, and no fresh water.

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

The (maybe) month after graduation is so weird. It's such an odd liminal space, I didn't know if I was coming or going, you have the joy of the celebration, contentment of achievement but you're also anchorless

1983 🌼
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What's your favourite Mansfield Park adaptation?

It's now under two weeks until the event of the summer kicks off ☀️

If you're coming to the Global Austen conference I'd love to know so I'll be able to recognise some friendly faces!

#globalausten2025 #janeausten #janeaustenconference

This is so exciting! Who’d have thunk that little web series of ours would still be of interest 10 years later!

Having amassed, last year, examples of bugs in 📚s, I'm sticking with my theme of volatilia, but now collecting examples of feathers in 📚s. Here's one (a real one!), intended for an album, from the John Johnson collection of ephemera at the Bodleian. I love it! If you have any, will you share pls?

Beamish is incredible, the shops, trams, and the school room are personal favourites but I love how into the fairground people get!

Have you ever heard of From Mansfield With Love?

Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!

Possibly the most aesthetic edition of Mansfield Park I own 🌹

#OTD in 1743 Anna Laetitia Barbauld was born. She was a renowned poet, children's author, shrewd editor, and an insightful essayist.

Here are some of my very favourite quotes from 'On the Origins and Progress of Novel-Writing' a preface to the British Novelists (1810).

The perfect view for writing the next section of my Dracula article ✍️ how claiming the earth can be a mark of power

Rereading Hallie Rubenhold's The Five yet again! 5⭐