Zaynub Zaman
@zzaman.bsky.social
Researcher, Lecturer @ UoM. Editor of Pre-Raphaelite Society Review. Loves all things to do with the Pre-Raphaelites, 19thC, Dante, and Islamicate history. Views own. She/her.
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The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.
156 years ago #onthisday, Top the wombat died. He was the pet of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning. More on Rossetti and co’s curious but longstanding fixation with the #wombat here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/o...
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The best bit is how Rossetti is roughly the same size and shape as the wombat, emphasising the wombat's humanity and/or the artist's wombatity. A tale as old as wombats.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Are you looking to share your love of nineteenth-century art & poetry? Join the lovely folks @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social, a warm and bright community who have supported my work since the beginning!
Thanks so much to @preraphsrule.bsky.social for giving our Founders Day Lecture on Christina Rossetti and Caring at the Birmingham and Midland Institute yesterday. Just after our annual AGM.
Become a member of the society today to hear more about our other future lectures- link in our bio.
Become a member of the society today to hear more about our other future lectures- link in our bio.
October 13, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Are you looking to share your love of nineteenth-century art & poetry? Join the lovely folks @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social, a warm and bright community who have supported my work since the beginning!
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‘Looks so sizzling they could fry an egg!’ How the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation changed my life
‘Looks so sizzling they could fry an egg!’ How the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation changed my life
The 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic, starring Colin Firth, has its own fan group, has inspired university courses and was even featured in the Barbie movie. What’s behind its enduring appeal?
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September 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
‘Looks so sizzling they could fry an egg!’ How the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation changed my life
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Four decades. How I came to be featured in an eminent Art Journal. Read my full blog post on my story: salvadorcastio.com/beautiful-re...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Four decades. How I came to be featured in an eminent Art Journal. Read my full blog post on my story: salvadorcastio.com/beautiful-re...
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social @zzaman.bsky.social @alexxr97.bsky.social @suzannefagence.bsky.social @preraphaelicious.bsky.social @veryverso.bsky.social
#art
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It's been an Amazing week. After months of patiently waiting, I can finally reveal that I am the subject of a five-page article, In An Artist's Studio, in the new issue of the Pre-Raphaelite Society's PRS Review. My sincere thanks to @zzaman.bsky.social and @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social. #art
August 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It's been an Amazing week. After months of patiently waiting, I can finally reveal that I am the subject of a five-page article, In An Artist's Studio, in the new issue of the Pre-Raphaelite Society's PRS Review. My sincere thanks to @zzaman.bsky.social and @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social. #art
Cloaked in cascading bronze chiffon, the Summer Issue of the PRS Review/PRSUS Newsletter is out now! Crammed with essays that’ll whisk you away to 13thC Florence and marvels closer to home, astonishing art, poetry, architecture, book & exhibition reviews, opinion pieces and more! 💎
August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Cloaked in cascading bronze chiffon, the Summer Issue of the PRS Review/PRSUS Newsletter is out now! Crammed with essays that’ll whisk you away to 13thC Florence and marvels closer to home, astonishing art, poetry, architecture, book & exhibition reviews, opinion pieces and more! 💎
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Thrilled to receive the summer edition of preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social PRS Review, and to see my new poem given such wonderful treatment. Being Poet-in-Residence to the PRS is an extraordinary honour. I'm sharing an obscured image here... no spoilers! 🧡🍂💛
August 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thrilled to receive the summer edition of preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social PRS Review, and to see my new poem given such wonderful treatment. Being Poet-in-Residence to the PRS is an extraordinary honour. I'm sharing an obscured image here... no spoilers! 🧡🍂💛
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My new series: Vision and Beauty. A 40-year journey with the Pre-Raphaelites in 3 parts. @zzaman.bsky.social @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
Vision and Beauty: Part 1 – Salvador Castío
A Vision of Beauty: Discovering The Pre-Raphaelites I had no idea I was stepping onto a forty-year path when I bought my copy of the illustration monograph The Studio at sixteen. That oversized tome f...
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July 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
My new series: Vision and Beauty. A 40-year journey with the Pre-Raphaelites in 3 parts. @zzaman.bsky.social @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
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Happy 196th birthday to Elizabeth Siddal. Her poetry was never published in her lifetime. Our edition of it is in bookstores on the 29th but pre-ordering everywhere now and also at ElizabethSiddal.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Happy 196th birthday to Elizabeth Siddal. Her poetry was never published in her lifetime. Our edition of it is in bookstores on the 29th but pre-ordering everywhere now and also at ElizabethSiddal.com
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Hi I’m Dr. Serena Trowbridge and for my final social media takeover post today, I wanted to share about an exciting new role, and the first of its kind- Professor of Pre-Raphaelite Studies- and how inspired I am by the current diversity of research and scholars involved in the field.
July 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hi I’m Dr. Serena Trowbridge and for my final social media takeover post today, I wanted to share about an exciting new role, and the first of its kind- Professor of Pre-Raphaelite Studies- and how inspired I am by the current diversity of research and scholars involved in the field.
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Hi I’m Dr. Serena Trowbridge, Chair of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and I’m taking over our social media today. I’ve been asked to share a few of my favourite Pre-Raphaelite artworks and current research interests:
July 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Hi I’m Dr. Serena Trowbridge, Chair of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and I’m taking over our social media today. I’ve been asked to share a few of my favourite Pre-Raphaelite artworks and current research interests:
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Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!
May 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bluesky isn’t about popularity, it’s about gathering all 17 William Morris lovers together in a single online location!
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I'm giddy and overjoyed to have won 1st prize in the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize. It was a privilege to be included on a shortlist packed with incredible writers, and I hope I get to read all of those poems at some point. Sincere thanks to the judges, I'm feeling very grateful.
May 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'm giddy and overjoyed to have won 1st prize in the Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize. It was a privilege to be included on a shortlist packed with incredible writers, and I hope I get to read all of those poems at some point. Sincere thanks to the judges, I'm feeling very grateful.
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It's about time we brought back tableaux vivants of Pre-Raphaelite art. And thigh tattoos. Probably not lemurs...
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#tableauxvivants #preraphaelite #brightyoungthing #1920s
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#tableauxvivants #preraphaelite #brightyoungthing #1920s
A Thruple, a Lemur and a Thigh Tattoo
pre-raphaelite blog, Pre-Raphaelite blog, Victorian, Rossetti, Fanny Cornforth, Elizabeth Siddal, Alexa Wilding, Pre-Raphaelite, Victorian blog,
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May 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
It's about time we brought back tableaux vivants of Pre-Raphaelite art. And thigh tattoos. Probably not lemurs...
fannycornforth.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-th...
#tableauxvivants #preraphaelite #brightyoungthing #1920s
fannycornforth.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-th...
#tableauxvivants #preraphaelite #brightyoungthing #1920s
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Brontë country to become protected national nature reserve. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Brontë country to become protected national nature reserve
The 1,274-hectare Bradford Pennine Gateway links eight nature sites and includes landscape that inspired sisters
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May 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Brontë country to become protected national nature reserve. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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A flourishing of foxgloves for Friday.
‘The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue,
Will not reveal what peals were rung
In Faery, in Faery,
A thousand ages gone.’
Mary Webb
Can you spot all the foxgloves in these three artworks?
‘The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue,
Will not reveal what peals were rung
In Faery, in Faery,
A thousand ages gone.’
Mary Webb
Can you spot all the foxgloves in these three artworks?
May 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A flourishing of foxgloves for Friday.
‘The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue,
Will not reveal what peals were rung
In Faery, in Faery,
A thousand ages gone.’
Mary Webb
Can you spot all the foxgloves in these three artworks?
‘The foxglove bells, with lolling tongue,
Will not reveal what peals were rung
In Faery, in Faery,
A thousand ages gone.’
Mary Webb
Can you spot all the foxgloves in these three artworks?
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New Lecture Alert! Saturday 17th May, Birmingham, UK. For more details and to buy tickets- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...
May 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
New Lecture Alert! Saturday 17th May, Birmingham, UK. For more details and to buy tickets- www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...
Got that Spring Glow? Swishing around in Silk, I’m delighted to announce this season’s PRS Review! We feature incredible essays, poems and reviews, exquisite art and 19thC stained-glass windows that will take your breath away!
April 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Got that Spring Glow? Swishing around in Silk, I’m delighted to announce this season’s PRS Review! We feature incredible essays, poems and reviews, exquisite art and 19thC stained-glass windows that will take your breath away!
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Happy Mother’s Day to the moms, mums, mamas, stepmoms, aunts, grandmas, great grandmothers, guardians, godparents, cousins and all the women in our lives that raised us and continue to offer their support, love and guidance.
March 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Happy Mother’s Day to the moms, mums, mamas, stepmoms, aunts, grandmas, great grandmothers, guardians, godparents, cousins and all the women in our lives that raised us and continue to offer their support, love and guidance.
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CFP: Working Pre-Raphaelites
March 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
CFP: Working Pre-Raphaelites
Revolutionary Writers unite!
Special Issue 🚨 Working Wonders: Work, Pre-Raphs and Utopian Visions. Welcome topics: Labour, Socialists, Suffragettes & Utopia. Email [email protected] for expressions of interest.
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Deadline: 1st September 2025.
Special Issue 🚨 Working Wonders: Work, Pre-Raphs and Utopian Visions. Welcome topics: Labour, Socialists, Suffragettes & Utopia. Email [email protected] for expressions of interest.
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
Deadline: 1st September 2025.
March 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Revolutionary Writers unite!
Special Issue 🚨 Working Wonders: Work, Pre-Raphs and Utopian Visions. Welcome topics: Labour, Socialists, Suffragettes & Utopia. Email [email protected] for expressions of interest.
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
Deadline: 1st September 2025.
Special Issue 🚨 Working Wonders: Work, Pre-Raphs and Utopian Visions. Welcome topics: Labour, Socialists, Suffragettes & Utopia. Email [email protected] for expressions of interest.
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social
Deadline: 1st September 2025.
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Call for Papers for our Autumn/ Winter edition!
March 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Call for Papers for our Autumn/ Winter edition!
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There’s still tickets available for this fascinating talk this weekend.
Lecture News:
AN ECLECTIC CREATION: BURNE-JONES’ WHEEL OF FORTUNE by Tina Anderlini PhD
11am, Saturday 22nd March, VIA ZOOM
‘The Wheel of Fortune’ is one of Burne-Jones’ most famous paintings. The connection with Michaelangelo is well established. But was he the only source the painter used? …
AN ECLECTIC CREATION: BURNE-JONES’ WHEEL OF FORTUNE by Tina Anderlini PhD
11am, Saturday 22nd March, VIA ZOOM
‘The Wheel of Fortune’ is one of Burne-Jones’ most famous paintings. The connection with Michaelangelo is well established. But was he the only source the painter used? …
March 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
There’s still tickets available for this fascinating talk this weekend.
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English actress Ellen Terry born #OTD 1847, painted as Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent in 1888; her acclaimed emerald dress by aesthetic designer Alice Comyns Carr shimmered with iridescent wings of 1,000 jewel beetles.
Tate Museum | Smallhythe, National Trust #sargentexhibition
Tate Museum | Smallhythe, National Trust #sargentexhibition
February 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
English actress Ellen Terry born #OTD 1847, painted as Lady Macbeth by John Singer Sargent in 1888; her acclaimed emerald dress by aesthetic designer Alice Comyns Carr shimmered with iridescent wings of 1,000 jewel beetles.
Tate Museum | Smallhythe, National Trust #sargentexhibition
Tate Museum | Smallhythe, National Trust #sargentexhibition