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Sofie
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University of St Andrews. Victorian literature MLitt. 📝 she/her
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For those who can't attend the morning session, there's an even session as well: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thakumar-j...
‘Thakumar Jhuli’ – The Ghost Stories of Bengali Folklore
Arya Ray joins us to talk about Bengali Folklore
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November 22, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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romgothsam.bsky.social
Wants some talks on Haunted Houses? We've got more haunted houses than you can shake a stick at - check out this thread!
romgothsam.bsky.social Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Nov 21
We have a lot of talks on Haunted Houses!

This one is about Shirley Jackson and Haunted Houses and Finances

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Haunted Houses, Credit and Shirley Jackson with Amy Bride
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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November 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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lauravivanco.bsky.social
Joseph Crawford 's written an open access essay which addresses ethical issues he's considered while teaching a course about romantic fiction.
‘I'm Alright, It's Just so Horrible’: Teaching Romance Fictions, Pre‐ and Post‐#MeToo
This article discusses the author’s experiences of teaching the history of romance fiction to undergraduate students from 2013 to 2024, with a particular emphasis on changing approaches to teaching r...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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grantifa9.bsky.social
Spotted on my walk. A sign of hope.
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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maryburke.bsky.social
The black square page (marking a character's death) in "Tristram Shandy" (1759)
black square commemorating the death of a character in Laurence Stern's "Tristram Shandy" (1759)
November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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gonejoshin.bsky.social
Its such a gorgeous day 🍂
View of pdx from Mt tabor Mt tabor water reservoir Mt tabor water reservoir with tree with yellow leaves in front Spider man toy dangling from tree as if he's shooting a web
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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victorianweb.bsky.social
An ad on the back of an 1890's book, indicating the increasing reliance on bold visual imagery rather than info. to sell a product. It certainly catches the eye! victorianweb.org/art/design/a...
A hand reaches out through the paper amid just a few words, asking if you've washed yet (and used that particular brand of soap)! Well??!
November 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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karlsteel.bsky.social
guys I was able to access a British Library digitized manuscript today for the first time in years. Check it out. www.bl.uk/collection/d...

click on the pdf [save that!] and use its hyperlinks!

+ for the post I wrote for today's MEDIEVAL NATURE class
Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library
View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.
www.bl.uk
November 10, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at [email protected] for more information
Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities A VPFA Study Day Loughborough University, 27 March 2026 The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change. Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: • Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine • The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…
October 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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healthhumslboro.bsky.social
🔈📚🕰️🩺 Join us for a Loughborough Health Humanities x Cultural Currents event on Weds 29 October, 16:15. Taking place in a hybrid format - DM us (or DM @culturalcurrents.bsky.social) for link and details. See post below for more info on our wonderful speakers👇
culturalcurrents.bsky.social culturalcurrents.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social · Oct 6
On Wed 29 Oct, 16.15, join us for our first event of 2025-26, feat. two @lboroenglish.bsky.social legends:

1/1 Dr Anne-Marie Beller @braddonite.bsky.social
"We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind": Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Life and Fiction
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I'm doing a talk in Bath! Come and join me at Komedia on the 4th November 2025 for a whistlestop tour of women in the Gothic across four delirious centuries! It will be fast, furious, and hair raising! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gothic-fic...
September 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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COMING SOON: Rogue Star Magazine. Online magazine of science fiction and fantasy genre magazine featuring genre news, reviews, interviews, and more. Follow @roguestarmag.bsky.social for Updates. #comingsoon #signalboost
rogue star magazine red logo with image of a planet and white text with publication name and tagline
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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adamneikirk.bsky.social
This looks crazy cool
bars.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Sep 12
Now on the BARS Blog: Symposium on Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Meiji University and online, Saturday 18th October www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6139
Japanese poster for the Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Symposium. English poster for the Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Symposium.
September 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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literaryhub.bsky.social
Ed Simon considers climate apocalypse and the limits of language at the end of the world.
On the Limits of Language at the End of the World
Four centuries ago, somebody starving in the drought-afflicted Elbe region in what is today the Czech Republic anonymously chiseled onto the stone of the receding river bank a warning. Here, along …
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September 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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davelevitan.bsky.social
Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah
September 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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vpreditors.bsky.social
Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Front page of The Gartnavel Gazette; or Monthly Journal of the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum, Wednesday, July 6, 1853, image courtesy of Wellcome Collection, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jvk8aued/items?canvas=7. Accompanied by text that says: Mila Daskalova, Passing the Hours: Measuring, Recording and Experiencing Time Through Periodical Publishing in Victorian Asylums, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.
September 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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proenzacoles.bsky.social
In the 1880s, Florida Ruffin Ridley wrote for the Boston Globe, organized a national conference for Black women, & edited the newspaper, The Women’s Era. “We the women of the Women’s Era Club enter the field to work hand in hand with women, generally for humanity and humanity’s interests.”
Grainy black and white portrait of a young woman in hat and gloves.
September 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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bars.bsky.social
The British Association for Romantic Studies Biennal International Conference 2026 - Romantic Retrospection
In-person: Wednesday 29th–Friday 31st July 2026
Online Conference: Thursday 6th August 2026

Updates & CfP announced:

www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...

[Image: Birmingham Museums Trust]
August 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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joshshepperd.bsky.social
Major new piece from David Ben-Merre (Buffalo State) and Manu Chander @profchander.bsky.social (Georgetown), in epilogue of David's excellent new book "O: Apostrophic Ghosts and the Disappearing Acts of Lyric Poetry."
Epilogue: Every Þrose has its thorn On Poison, the Cure, and other Pharmacological Prickles; Or, Why are you so far away?
By David Ben-Merre PhD. and Manu Samriti Chander, Published on 01/01/25
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September 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice.
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What Pride and Prejudice Tells Us About British History, Class, and Women’s Leisure Time
The first dialogue readers encounter in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a conversation between a wife and husband who have been married for twenty-three years. Mrs. Bennet is all aflutter abou…
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September 22, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The journal Victorians (formerly The Victorian Newsletter) is out, with new format and new editor Kristen Pond, featuring a forum on amateurism and professionalization in science with intro by @aktange.bsky.social. Some terrific work here, and all is Open Access. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55573 #C19th
Project MUSE - Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature-Number 147, Summer 2025
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September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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basilbowdler.bsky.social
A fantastic group to get involved with, be sure to get your papers in!
staemworkshop.bsky.social St Andrews Early Modern PG Workshop @staemworkshop.bsky.social · Nov 26
#callforpapers for next term's ST ANDREWS EARLY MODERN PG WORKSHOP. This hybrid event is open to PGs at every level, from any uni, working on all aspects of the #earlymodern (c. 1400-1800). Proposals/Bios due 3 Jan 2025! E-mail [email protected] if interested! #cfp
Call for Papers for next term's St Andrews Early Modern PG Workshop. Proposals/Bios due 3 January 2025
December 3, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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middleagewitch.bsky.social
I'm so excited and honoured to be giving a witchy keynote at this event.
December 20, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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rachelmurray.bsky.social
Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture has been published! 🥳 Edited by Vera Fibisan and me and featuring essays by Stacy Alaimo, @stevementz.bsky.social, Dominic O'Key, Rick de Vos, and many others. Do consider ordering a copy for your library: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Blue Extinction in Literature, Art, and Culture
The book demonstrate the affordances of literary and artistic forms in exposing the plight of aquatic organisms that are contributing to their destruction.
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December 13, 2024 at 12:27 PM
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jendeavour.bsky.social
This week in the module Tales of Terror: Gothic and the Short form in long c19th, we looked at how different forms and narrative styles skew the way "truths" and possibilities of death and the afterlife were presented in 4 very different stories 🖤⚰️🧟‍♀️
#prematureburial #ghosts #Gothicdeath
Phelps Kentucky's Ghost 1868, Atlantic monthly magazine Ambrose Bierce The Moonlit Road Cosmopolitan magazine cover The mummy's soul 1862 from The Knickerbocker Poe, The premature burial, 1845
November 30, 2024 at 12:16 AM