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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️

@megandanielle.bsky.social

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PhD researcher studying class and alcohol in 18th and 19th cent. literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque🪡

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jan 29

A little intro to my PhD project for those interested 🫶🏻: I am exploring the relationship between alcohol and class in 18th and 19thC British art and literature, with an interest in satirical art, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Robert Burns, the Bröntes, Elizabeth Gaskell, and more 🍻

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 2d

‘Everyday, give yourself a present’. The Twin Peaks cross stitch is DONE!! ✨🫶🏻

Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · 16d

It’s my last week at my current retail job meaning I’ll no longer be lovingly known as “curtain lady” 🫡

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Aug 21

Word of the Day is ‘theic’ (19th century), defined as ‘one given to immoderate tea-drinking; a tea drunkard’.

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Aug 19

Please help. Please sign & share. I work on a degree programme known as ELCE for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. Bristol uni has decided to close it. Bristol was set up to serve this community & now we are losing our most accessible degree.

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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol

19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Aug 3

Paperback edition of 'Made in Manchester', due near the end of this month, has a new cover illustration. I'll be signing copies at Waterstones Oldham, Saturday 23rd August 12-2pm. All welcome. www.waterstones.com/events/brian...

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Aug 6

My poem ‘Desiderium’ is in the recent issue of Twisted Ink! Read it (and everyone else’s lovely work) here >> twistedinks.wordpress.com ✨🫶🏻

Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jul 30

LOVE studying literature until I’m walking around with 7 books and my laptop in my bag and my backs trying not to snap in half

Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jul 30

Ooo I don’t but it fits right into my interest in the Romantics 🫢 thank you !!

Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jul 25

Went to the National Museum of Scotland and just had to take some time appreciating all the Jacobite drinking glasses 🍷🍷

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · Jul 20

Wordsworth and Coleridge at the Coldplay gig

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jul 5

Had a fantastic time at my first @defoesociety.bsky.social conference! I presented my research on drink, class, and narrative in Fielding and Defoe 🍻 Big thanks to @nick-seager.bsky.social for organising & the board who awarded me the John Richetti Student Bursary to enable me to go 🫶🏻

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Phoebe Anson • 🎬📚✈️ @phoebejanson.bsky.social · Jul 1

First post 🥳 A little intro to my PhD project.

I'm currently researching surrealist aesthetics and tendencies in contemporary world cinema. My current focus is on the Surrealist documentary of Jean Painlevé and the docufiction of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 🎬

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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · Jun 24

Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing!
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jun 20

Had a great couple days attending the Drinking Studies Network’s Women and Alcohol Cluster’s #dangerouspleasure conference in Dublin 🍻 some great discussions from a range of disciplines and I got to present my own research on the Georgian pub landlady in art and literature!

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · Jun 20

Panel 5 of #womenandalcohol #dangerouspleasure leads off with Megan Bennett, exploring figures of the Georgian landlady in Fielding & others, and the extraordinary figure of Mary Robinson, the Maid of Buttermere, who became something like a tourist attraction in the Lakes for Coleridge & others 1/3

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jun 20

Panel two reflects on visualizing pleasures. Megan Bennett starts with a brilliant reading of the land lady in literary and visual cultures of 18C

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Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social · Jun 13

In true drinking studies fashion, I’m ending today at the University Arms after a jam-packed workshop talking about publishing ✨ Organised with my fellow PGRs on behalf of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social Grateful for everyone who came and who spoke 🫶🏻