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Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies at Edge Hill University • MA 19thC Studies • Directors: @VictorianMasc.bsky.social, @DrBeard79.bsky.social @DigiVictorian.bsky.social • https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/
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THIS WEEK! Join us!!
A scene from Farmer Giles’s Entertainment of various figures around a table enjoying Christmas dinner (there also a children’s table) which we’re imagining is how our flash talks with our PhD students will go
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Finally, Emma Butler’s #19thCFlashTalk thinks about Anna Austen Lefroy’s 1925 continuation of Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon and its representation of the seaside, presenting the fruits of her recent fellowship at Chawton

10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Frontispiece of Lefroy’s Sanditon with black and white version of a portrait of Austen based on Cassandra’s sketch of her
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Emily Hayes’ #19thCFlashTalk examines how female victims of sexual violence were represented in Victorian and Edwardian newspapers

10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Historic photo of St George’s Hall, Liverpool (lots of columns with carriages outside)
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Laura Grande Mateu’s #19thCFlashTalk uses the case study of Marianne Brocklehurst, traveller, collector, and museum founder to explore what scrapbooks and other material can tell us about Egyptomania and cultural heritage

10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Page from Bricklehurst’s scrapbook with images from Egypt including two big black statues against st a red and yellow sky and a page of neat handwriting
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Our first #19thCFlashTalk will see Liam Pope take an eco-feminist approach to gardens in the Brontës’ works

10/12, 6 pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A strip of lawn outside Haworth parsonage
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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And finally:

19/2/26: Ben Jackson, ‘"& let Him know what it is to abuse a Clergyman": Parish Clergy and Conflict in England, c. 1760-1830'

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#EHU19SeminarSeries
Tom Holländer as Mr Collins holding a tiny flower and about to have his heart broken by Lizzie
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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In the new year, we will host:

22/1/26: Katherine Watson: ‘Law, Crime, and Medicine in Historical Perspective’, 6-7 pm

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The Quack Doctor’s Prayer: a dubious looking guy praying over a box with a duck on it
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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A Christmas treat will be:

10/12/25: Flash Talks from our EHU Nineteen postgraduate researchers, 6-7 pm

The Brontës and gardens! The seaside as liminal space! Women as victims of violence in Liverpool! Women as art collectors in the North West!

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Lightning striking the chestnut tree in 1943’s Jane Eyre film
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Our second seminar is:

27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm

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A print called ‘A Private Theatrical of Jane Shore’ with a seated woman performing with book for variously involved seated guests, a cat and dog fighting in the middle of them
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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First up is:

29/10/25: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels', 6-7 pm

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Emma offering Mr Woodhouse a pillow in a drawing by Hugh Thomson
October 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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We are delighted to announce the first seminar in our 25/26 series: the wonderful @drreznicek.bsky.social will be presenting on ‘Too Bodily: Disability, Care, & Belonging in Romantic Novels’ on Wednesday 29th October at 6pm.

Free! Online! All welcome!

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This is a sneak preview of our poster image as we finalise details - it’s a coloured etching by Thomas Rowlandson after G M Woodward from 1801 called ‘The Quack Doctor’s Prayer’ with a kneeling doctor praying over a box with a duck drawn on it. In the background there’s a candelabra and pink hangings.
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Each year we ask our MA #19thC Studies students to choose a band name for their cohort and this year they picked…

*drumroll*
Panic! at the Guillotine Announced in a gold and black poster including past band names such as Jerry and the Crunchers and Rage Against the Ancien Regime
November 21, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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Congratulations to our 23/24 MA 19th Century Studies cohort AKA Rage Against the Ancien Régime! 🥂
A photo of our MA students and Bob in their graduation finery - Laura and Andy lurking in the back in their civvies
July 16, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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FINALLY we’re going international to discuss Wollstonecraft’s Breasts with Kayla Probeyahn. Join us on Thursday 25th April at 6 pm for our season finale! sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
Wollstonecraft’s Breasts poster in dark blue with the Blake image of two children on either side of Mrs Mason from Wollstonecraft’s Original Stories from Real Life - because of our cheeky title it looks like they’re ogling her boobs! Kayla will be discussing the politics of breastfeeding and the intersection of maternity and authorship in Wollstonecraft’s life and work
February 22, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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We’re looking forward to hearing from our EHU Nineteen postgraduate researchers in lightning talks chaired by one of our MA students Abbie Hope (LOVE the image too!). Join us on Thursday 11th April at 6 pm: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
Black and white image of lightning flashing at woman and child next to stone edifice, sheep in background. Poster in yellow advertising lightning talks from Bianca Friedman, Emma Butler, Grace Marks, and Julia Clayton
February 22, 2024 at 7:38 AM
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Next we’re delighted to host to find out about Decadent Moods! Swap that cuppa for some absinthe (!?) and join us on Tuesday 19th March at 6 pm: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
Poster for Patricia Pulham’s seminar on Decadent Moods in arsenic green with a portrait of a decadent gent with great moustache and details of the focus on aesthetics and interdisciplinary
February 22, 2024 at 7:36 AM
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First up on Thursday 29th February at 6 pm are @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social and Tino Oudesluijs on the Mary Hamilton Papers. Book here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
Poster for ‘Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers’ in pink with an image of the writer and details of the seminar discussing her life and work and approaches to creating open access digital editions
February 22, 2024 at 7:34 AM
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Booking open for ALL our free online seminars! Join us through February to April for scintillating conversation and maybe your favourite cuppa!

Details in thread and you can book here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
Our seminar series poster in pastel green, pink, and cream with a Gillray caricature of George III drinking tea with a series of worried looking women advertising our brilliant line up (details in thread)
February 22, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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Booking now open! We're welcoming Prof Patricia Pulham to find out what makes a ‘decadent mood’, unravel the mysteries of ‘Bruges-la-Morte’ (1892), and get top tips for excellent interdisciplinary scholarship in 19thC Studies.
📆Tues 19 March. 6pm GMT. Zoom
🎟️https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
Poster image featuring portrait by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer of Georges Rodenbachin shades of soft green and pink. Text: Decadent Moods. Prof. Patricia Pulham. University of Surrey. Prof Patricia Pulham discusses decadent identities, aesthetics, and what makes for excellent interdisciplinary scholarship.' Tuesday 19 March. 6-7pm. Zoom. Free. Book: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
February 15, 2024 at 5:29 PM
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First up are @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social and Tino Oudesluijs on ‘Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers’ (check out the project here: www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk), co-hosted by our Linguistics Research Group. 29th February, 6-7 pm. Sign up here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
An image of Mary Hamilton with details of the seminar, focusing on her life and thinking about approaches to open access digital editions - all in tasteful pink
February 6, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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Ta DAH! It’s our 2024 seminar series! Join us in conversation with some brilliant scholars, incl our own postgraduates! Free, online, & all welcome! Thursdays, 6-7 pm. @SMCoulombeau & @TinoOudesluijs kick us off on 29/2. More details & sign ups here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
Our ‘In Conversation’ poster featuring King George III and his Queen at tea with some worried looking girls (who we’ve used as the image of our postgrads) and advertising the first talk on Mary Hamilton, Patricia Pulham on Decadent Moods (Tuesday 19th March), those postgrads doing flash talks (11th April), and Kayla Probeyahn on Wollstonecraft’s Breasts (25th April)
February 6, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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Every year our MA 19th Century Studies students choose a cohort name. The only rules are:

⭐️ It must be 19thC themed.
⭐️ It must sound like a band.
This year’s shortlist is too good not to share.

Which would you choose?What would your band be?
Student vote results soon!
Cohort band names: Emotional Support Cowboy Currer and the Bells Sound of the Baskervilles Marley’s Chains Pink Freud
January 31, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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📚❄️ Today’s EHU Nineteen Wintertime Read is one for the #ConsumingtheGothic #GothsAssemble crowd. MA student @abbiehope.bsky.social’s choice gives a whole new meaning to ‘Christmas dinner’!
HANNIBAL Thomas Harris (1999) I first watched the TV show in winter 2018 and read the book afterwards. So Hannibal Lecter is weirdly Christmassey for me. It adds a whole new spin to the concept of Christmas dinner - yikes!
December 15, 2023 at 2:26 PM
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📚❄️ Our next EHU Nineteen Wintertime Read is an absolute classic, chosen by MA 19thC student @chloeroyle.bsky.social who is researching the world of the Girls Own Paper. 🗞️
LITTLE WOMEN Louisa May Alcott (1868) * I'm researching the Girls Own Paper (1880-1956) so the sisterhood in Little Women feels like it's speaking to the same community of young women readers. It's so relatable and comforting. Even the bits that are set in summer feel festive to mel
December 15, 2023 at 2:24 PM
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📚❄️ Our next EHU Nineteen Wintertime Read is Nancy Mitford’s ‘The Pursuit of Love’ - a scrumptious satire chosen by @victorianmasc.bsky.social
THE PURSUIT OF LOVE Nancy Mitford (1945) "When a child I spent my Christmas holidays at Alconleigh.." Mitford's scrumptious satire of 1930s society opens with the narrator recounting a series of disastrous Christmases spent at the draughty family manor of her cousins, the Radlets.
December 13, 2023 at 4:14 PM