lawrence jones
@lawrentian.bsky.social
PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
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lawrence jones
@lawrentian.bsky.social
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2 years ago I worked on a project to restore a 1920s WHS railway station bookstall. It was in pieces & in a bad state. A colleague & I found old photos of it in the WHS archive at @themerl.bsky.social which helped the restoration work. Look at it now👇 Full story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Had a lovely dinner tonight with a friend I hadn’t seen for too long a time. We went to Toklas restaurant near Temple tube station in London. I’ve never been before, so was wondering if it was named after Alice B. When I got handed a menu, I was pleasantly suprised to learn that it was.
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Had a lovely dinner tonight with a friend I hadn’t seen for too long a time. We went to Toklas restaurant near Temple tube station in London. I’ve never been before, so was wondering if it was named after Alice B. When I got handed a menu, I was pleasantly suprised to learn that it was.
I just saw an otter in a stream near our home while walking our dog. Magical. 🦦
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I just saw an otter in a stream near our home while walking our dog. Magical. 🦦
The top 10 of the top 100 British novels according to book critics outside the UK. Virginia Woolf came 2nd & 3rd for To the Lighthouse & Mrs Dalloway respectively. She is the only 20th C author to make the top 10. Full list on the BBC website: www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The top 10 of the top 100 British novels according to book critics outside the UK. Virginia Woolf came 2nd & 3rd for To the Lighthouse & Mrs Dalloway respectively. She is the only 20th C author to make the top 10. Full list on the BBC website: www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
I'm currently editing my my thesis. Based on my supervisors' feedback, I'm expanding/shrinking existing content. This revision process has thrown out my word counts somewhat e.g. one chapter is now 15.3k words & another is 16.2k. Is that too big a difference? Or is it ok?
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I'm currently editing my my thesis. Based on my supervisors' feedback, I'm expanding/shrinking existing content. This revision process has thrown out my word counts somewhat e.g. one chapter is now 15.3k words & another is 16.2k. Is that too big a difference? Or is it ok?
Anyone know if The Internet Archive is down? archive.org. The site keeps timing out in various browsers.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Anyone know if The Internet Archive is down? archive.org. The site keeps timing out in various browsers.
Richard Linklater's new film, Nouvelle Vague - a love letter to Godard's Breathless (1960) - has this line spoken by Godard:
"Each film is made up of 5 different films: 1. The film you write; 2. The film you cast; 3. The film you shoot; 4. The film you edit; 5. The film you release."
"Each film is made up of 5 different films: 1. The film you write; 2. The film you cast; 3. The film you shoot; 4. The film you edit; 5. The film you release."
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Richard Linklater's new film, Nouvelle Vague - a love letter to Godard's Breathless (1960) - has this line spoken by Godard:
"Each film is made up of 5 different films: 1. The film you write; 2. The film you cast; 3. The film you shoot; 4. The film you edit; 5. The film you release."
"Each film is made up of 5 different films: 1. The film you write; 2. The film you cast; 3. The film you shoot; 4. The film you edit; 5. The film you release."
I remember Prunella Scales best as Aunt Juley in Howards End (1992). Or "Howards House" as Aunt Juley calls it 😅 Such a wonderful, understated, comedic performance.
October 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I remember Prunella Scales best as Aunt Juley in Howards End (1992). Or "Howards House" as Aunt Juley calls it 😅 Such a wonderful, understated, comedic performance.
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The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!
Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies
RTs much appreciated 🙏
Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies
RTs much appreciated 🙏
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!
Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies
RTs much appreciated 🙏
Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies
RTs much appreciated 🙏
Sigh. After writing 1200 words for my thesis intro yesterday, today it's taken me most of the day to write just one paragraph! Let's hope tomorrow is more productive....
October 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Sigh. After writing 1200 words for my thesis intro yesterday, today it's taken me most of the day to write just one paragraph! Let's hope tomorrow is more productive....
Forsterians: can you tell me when the Abinger ed. of EM Forster's works was published from/to? Was it from 1971 to 2004? It appears to be a 20-volume collection & each edition is numbered - but they weren't pub'd in date order e.g. WAFTT is no. 1 in the series, but it was pub'd after HE (no. 4).
October 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Forsterians: can you tell me when the Abinger ed. of EM Forster's works was published from/to? Was it from 1971 to 2004? It appears to be a 20-volume collection & each edition is numbered - but they weren't pub'd in date order e.g. WAFTT is no. 1 in the series, but it was pub'd after HE (no. 4).
I've sometimes wondered how antimacassars got their name. Well, Macassar oil was used from around the 1800s to the early 1900s to style hair & give it shine. But it left stains on seats - incl on train seats. So antimacassars were fitted to prevent the seat itself from being stained.
October 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I've sometimes wondered how antimacassars got their name. Well, Macassar oil was used from around the 1800s to the early 1900s to style hair & give it shine. But it left stains on seats - incl on train seats. So antimacassars were fitted to prevent the seat itself from being stained.
I can’t recall if this is correct or not, but was Virginia Woolf’s usual writing routine for her novels to write longhand in the morning & then type up what she had written in the afternoon? She would then send her typescripts to her printer to create the first set of proofs. Is this correct?
October 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I can’t recall if this is correct or not, but was Virginia Woolf’s usual writing routine for her novels to write longhand in the morning & then type up what she had written in the afternoon? She would then send her typescripts to her printer to create the first set of proofs. Is this correct?
I’ve been clearing out the basement this afternoon & came across this. Is it a long-lost notebook of Emily Brontë’s? No, it’s my own notebook from when I was doing research for my MA disstn several years ago. Such tiny writing! Why didn’t I use my laptop? 🤔
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I’ve been clearing out the basement this afternoon & came across this. Is it a long-lost notebook of Emily Brontë’s? No, it’s my own notebook from when I was doing research for my MA disstn several years ago. Such tiny writing! Why didn’t I use my laptop? 🤔
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We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
October 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We're ALSO looking for a poet! Two years, part time teaching post in a friendly department.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ075/t...
Just been made aware that the new documentary The Librarians is available for free on BBC iPlayer for the next 12 mths. It investigates what librarians in the US are going through right now as they unite to combat book banning & defend free speech. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Storyville - The Librarians
A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Just been made aware that the new documentary The Librarians is available for free on BBC iPlayer for the next 12 mths. It investigates what librarians in the US are going through right now as they unite to combat book banning & defend free speech. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
We’re planning a trip to Florence next year & I remembered I have a 1906 edition of the Baedeker for northern Italy. I’ll take it with me as our guide. Should be fun. This Baedekar is possibly the same edition EM Forster put into the hands of Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With a View (1908).
October 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We’re planning a trip to Florence next year & I remembered I have a 1906 edition of the Baedeker for northern Italy. I’ll take it with me as our guide. Should be fun. This Baedekar is possibly the same edition EM Forster put into the hands of Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With a View (1908).
It was my birthday the other day & my partner got me this card. She knows me well…
October 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It was my birthday the other day & my partner got me this card. She knows me well…
I have my supervisors’ feedback on my thesis, so today I begin the process of editing my tome on EM Forster & Virginia Woolf. I discovered that the only way to do this work is to print out my thesis & work slowly through it page by page - with a mug of tea on hand.
October 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I have my supervisors’ feedback on my thesis, so today I begin the process of editing my tome on EM Forster & Virginia Woolf. I discovered that the only way to do this work is to print out my thesis & work slowly through it page by page - with a mug of tea on hand.
New article on the Hogarth Press order books is available in the latest Modernism/modernity. It contains some fascinating data. modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...
Virginia Woolf in Circulation: The Hogarth Press Order Books, Modernist Bookselling and Digital Praxis | Modernism / Modernity Print+
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse famously opens with six-year old James Ramsay, “sitting on the floor cutting out pictures from the illustrated catalogue of the Army & Navy Stores.” With the awkward dexterity of a young child, James carefully guides his scissors around “a picture of a refrigerator,” endowing the image “with heavenly bliss” under the loving but watchful gaze
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October 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
New article on the Hogarth Press order books is available in the latest Modernism/modernity. It contains some fascinating data. modernismmodernity.org/articles/sta...
Reminded myself earlier that the village of Summer Street in EM Forster's A Room With a View is believed to be based on Holmbury St Mary near Dorking. More here: dorkingmuseum.org.uk/a-room-with-...
September 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reminded myself earlier that the village of Summer Street in EM Forster's A Room With a View is believed to be based on Holmbury St Mary near Dorking. More here: dorkingmuseum.org.uk/a-room-with-...
A James Joyce exhibition begins next week at @themerl.bsky.social in Reading. Runs till 9 Feb. More info here: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/james-...
James Joyce: Enigmas and Puzzles - The Museum of English Rural Life
This exhibition from the University of Reading’s Special Collections shares never-before-seen personal papers of beloved author James Joyce from our Solange and Stephen James Joyce Collection. Explore...
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September 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
A James Joyce exhibition begins next week at @themerl.bsky.social in Reading. Runs till 9 Feb. More info here: merl.reading.ac.uk/event/james-...
2 years ago I worked on a project to restore a 1920s WHS railway station bookstall. It was in pieces & in a bad state. A colleague & I found old photos of it in the WHS archive at @themerl.bsky.social which helped the restoration work. Look at it now👇 Full story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
September 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
2 years ago I worked on a project to restore a 1920s WHS railway station bookstall. It was in pieces & in a bad state. A colleague & I found old photos of it in the WHS archive at @themerl.bsky.social which helped the restoration work. Look at it now👇 Full story www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Had a dream last night that public schools had access to AI+ which scraped the digitised collections from the Bodleian, the BL, the NYPL etc. Comprehensive schools only had access to a cheap AI alternative which scraped old websites on the Internet Archive. 🤔
September 29, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Had a dream last night that public schools had access to AI+ which scraped the digitised collections from the Bodleian, the BL, the NYPL etc. Comprehensive schools only had access to a cheap AI alternative which scraped old websites on the Internet Archive. 🤔
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The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing's autumn events schedule is now live 📚 All welcome, events are free - join us. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing's autumn events schedule is now live 📚 All welcome, events are free - join us. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...