Dr Emma Probett
@emmaprobett.bsky.social
PhD in Victorian Studies. Currently writing a book about Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the novel of manners. They/Them
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I need new podcasts! Bonus points if anyone manages to find one dedicated to Elizabeth Gaskell
August 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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!
August 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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...
August 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The ventilated corset, a solution to tropical living for the Victorian lady www.instagram.com/reel/DNBII_8...
Fashion icon, Miss Matty 💅
August 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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?
Is Emma Woodhouse a bicon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?
August 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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?
Is Emma Woodhouse a bicon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?
They're both bad, but who's worse?
♥️⬇️ to vote
♥️⬇️ to vote
July 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They're both bad, but who's worse?
♥️⬇️ to vote
♥️⬇️ 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.
July 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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.
July 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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.
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.
July 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#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.
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.
What's your favourite Mansfield Park adaptation?
July 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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
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
June 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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
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
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!
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!
June 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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!
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 🌹
June 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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).
Here are some of my very favourite quotes from 'On the Origins and Progress of Novel-Writing' a preface to the British Novelists (1810).
June 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
#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).
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
April 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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⭐
April 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Rereading Hallie Rubenhold's The Five yet again! 5⭐
Brian Simpson's Common Law and Cannibalism has some excellent sketches added in on Regina versus Dudley and Stephens case. A fantastically useful book that's unfortunately out of print.
April 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brian Simpson's Common Law and Cannibalism has some excellent sketches added in on Regina versus Dudley and Stephens case. A fantastically useful book that's unfortunately out of print.
Late April Fools Day soy sauce in yesterday's food delivery 🎅
April 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Late April Fools Day soy sauce in yesterday's food delivery 🎅
Early Easter treats from the local bakery! 🐣
March 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Early Easter treats from the local bakery! 🐣
Time for a break in nature, less survival cannibalism but a little woodland gothic
March 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Time for a break in nature, less survival cannibalism but a little woodland gothic
Did you miss my Dracula and survival cannibalism at sea talk last Saturday? Don't worry, we're not ships passing in the night - my talk has now been uploaded on the Romancing the Gothic's YouTube page so you can watch it any time 🧛⚓⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4iY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4iY...
March 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Did you miss my Dracula and survival cannibalism at sea talk last Saturday? Don't worry, we're not ships passing in the night - my talk has now been uploaded on the Romancing the Gothic's YouTube page so you can watch it any time 🧛⚓⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4iY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4iY...
Join me today at 10am or 7pm (depending on your time zone). We're delving into a voyage of the damned, the lost souls of the Demeter in Bram Stoker's Dracula
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March 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Join me today at 10am or 7pm (depending on your time zone). We're delving into a voyage of the damned, the lost souls of the Demeter in Bram Stoker's Dracula
🎫 linktr.ee/emmaprobett
🎫 linktr.ee/emmaprobett
It's less than 24 hours before my talk on Dracula and survival cannibalism at sea with Romancing the Gothic!
There are two time slots, 10-11am and 7-8pm UK time so you can tune in from anywhere in the world.
Grab your free tickets on Eventbrite using www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dracula-as...
There are two time slots, 10-11am and 7-8pm UK time so you can tune in from anywhere in the world.
Grab your free tickets on Eventbrite using www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dracula-as...
March 21, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It's less than 24 hours before my talk on Dracula and survival cannibalism at sea with Romancing the Gothic!
There are two time slots, 10-11am and 7-8pm UK time so you can tune in from anywhere in the world.
Grab your free tickets on Eventbrite using www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dracula-as...
There are two time slots, 10-11am and 7-8pm UK time so you can tune in from anywhere in the world.
Grab your free tickets on Eventbrite using www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dracula-as...
If I could go back in time, one of my trips would be to pay Dr John Rae. He went to the Arctic in search of the Franklin Expedition. He found their camp and confirmed that they had resorted to cannibalism.
Lady Franklin didn't like the answer and refused to pay him the reward.
Lady Franklin didn't like the answer and refused to pay him the reward.
March 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
If I could go back in time, one of my trips would be to pay Dr John Rae. He went to the Arctic in search of the Franklin Expedition. He found their camp and confirmed that they had resorted to cannibalism.
Lady Franklin didn't like the answer and refused to pay him the reward.
Lady Franklin didn't like the answer and refused to pay him the reward.
'Moby Dick' was based on the sinking of The Essex. But did you know that sperm whales are predisposed to turn in the direction that the wind last blew when they're fleeing? Even if a ship's in the way.
🎫 More fun facts in my talk this Saturday linktr.ee/emmaprobett
🎫 More fun facts in my talk this Saturday linktr.ee/emmaprobett
March 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
'Moby Dick' was based on the sinking of The Essex. But did you know that sperm whales are predisposed to turn in the direction that the wind last blew when they're fleeing? Even if a ship's in the way.
🎫 More fun facts in my talk this Saturday linktr.ee/emmaprobett
🎫 More fun facts in my talk this Saturday linktr.ee/emmaprobett