Dinah Roe
@preraphsrule.bsky.social
C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
Hamlet's father's ghost is really going to extremes trying to make contact.
December 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Hamlet's father's ghost is really going to extremes trying to make contact.
Warning for coeliacs travelling with Virgin Atlantic - gluten free meals are gone - replaced with *drum roll* meals containing traces of gluten! 🤡
On the same page, they claim to 'offer delicious meals to suit...gluten-free'.
On the same page, they claim to 'offer delicious meals to suit...gluten-free'.
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Warning for coeliacs travelling with Virgin Atlantic - gluten free meals are gone - replaced with *drum roll* meals containing traces of gluten! 🤡
On the same page, they claim to 'offer delicious meals to suit...gluten-free'.
On the same page, they claim to 'offer delicious meals to suit...gluten-free'.
Celebrate St. Nicholas Day with one of my favourite @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social paintings, St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm [Bicci di Lorenzo (1373–1452)]
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Celebrate St. Nicholas Day with one of my favourite @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social paintings, St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm [Bicci di Lorenzo (1373–1452)]
Spot on for this year.
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Spot on for this year.
What fresh hell is this.
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What fresh hell is this.
Christina Rossetti would have been pleased, I think. Here is her memorial sonnet for John Henry Newman, who 'Chose love not in the shallows, but the deep'. 🏳️🌈
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Christina Rossetti would have been pleased, I think. Here is her memorial sonnet for John Henry Newman, who 'Chose love not in the shallows, but the deep'. 🏳️🌈
Yeah ok, but you're not helping your case by suggesting Americans should fork out this much for a kettle. 😱
October 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Yeah ok, but you're not helping your case by suggesting Americans should fork out this much for a kettle. 😱
Okay, we have a winner for tonight's viewing. I quoted this film in my high school yearbook, and literally no one knew what I was on about. So I had to move. Thank you all for the brilliant suggestions - I now have a longlist which will take me through to Dec. Next up will be 'Local Hero'.
September 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Okay, we have a winner for tonight's viewing. I quoted this film in my high school yearbook, and literally no one knew what I was on about. So I had to move. Thank you all for the brilliant suggestions - I now have a longlist which will take me through to Dec. Next up will be 'Local Hero'.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
FYI: For those who are eligible, Covid-19 vaccination appointments now available to book via NHS (appointments start in Oct) www.nhs.uk/nhs-services...
me and my book project
July 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
me and my book project
Help. I'm being trolled by my curl cream.
July 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Help. I'm being trolled by my curl cream.
Best chair I ever saw had one of these, which she threatened to waggle at anyone who went over time. No one went over time.
July 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Best chair I ever saw had one of these, which she threatened to waggle at anyone who went over time. No one went over time.
Just misread this as 'Shaving Mozart', and thought it was another sort of show entirely. I think the heat is getting to me.
July 13, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Just misread this as 'Shaving Mozart', and thought it was another sort of show entirely. I think the heat is getting to me.
Me: It's been a trying week. But surely moving on to editing the next Christina Rossetti manuscript notebook (1846-47) will cheer me up!
Christina Rossetti, Page 1:
Christina Rossetti, Page 1:
July 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Me: It's been a trying week. But surely moving on to editing the next Christina Rossetti manuscript notebook (1846-47) will cheer me up!
Christina Rossetti, Page 1:
Christina Rossetti, Page 1:
Not the solution to the poetry-editing dilemma that I was hoping for. #amediting #rossetti
July 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Not the solution to the poetry-editing dilemma that I was hoping for. #amediting #rossetti
I think these monstrous people are out of a different Penn Badgley vehicle. (Season 4)
June 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I think these monstrous people are out of a different Penn Badgley vehicle. (Season 4)
Working on Christina Rossetti's 'Sappho' (1846) today, am reminded of the best rhyming couplet of all time, from Cole Porter's 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare':
One must know Homer and, b’lieve me, Bo.
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho!
One must know Homer and, b’lieve me, Bo.
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho!
![Brush Up Your Shakespeare [title]
The girls today in society,
Go for classical poetry,
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides.
One must know Homer and, b’lieve me, Bo.
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho!
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope.
Dainty debbies will call you a dope.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5zkkf6ml2z7uu3ri4qwfmvyp/bafkreihi4vlpt4gngcmgy7fwo3rd3vim7ed26erz3h6exhfbfsuibmsoie@jpeg)
June 11, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Working on Christina Rossetti's 'Sappho' (1846) today, am reminded of the best rhyming couplet of all time, from Cole Porter's 'Brush Up Your Shakespeare':
One must know Homer and, b’lieve me, Bo.
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho!
One must know Homer and, b’lieve me, Bo.
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho!
AI chatbots are not just garbage - they're dangerous garbage.
June 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
AI chatbots are not just garbage - they're dangerous garbage.
Just searched Christina Rossetti's Poetical Works (1904) for 'dead bride'. These are the results (in blue), in case you wondered how my day is going. 💀
May 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Just searched Christina Rossetti's Poetical Works (1904) for 'dead bride'. These are the results (in blue), in case you wondered how my day is going. 💀
Same, Cowper. Same.
May 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Same, Cowper. Same.
Fewer. Give me strength.
![A cartoon dog in a lab coat pointing to a poster that says 'Semicolons Can be Fun'. Another dog stands by, saying, 'No[sic] thank you'. Caption reads: 'Recent studies suggest that not only are people using less semicolons these days...'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5zkkf6ml2z7uu3ri4qwfmvyp/bafkreif73jgnt3ii7lnsgdb5fvpl655m4kgoe52bdvjhtfunubzb7ha73m@jpeg)
May 19, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Fewer. Give me strength.
Me: Gee, it's been a lot this week, what with the rise of fascism, the University sector in crisis, etc. I know what will life my spirits: poetry!
Christina Rossetti: Not so fast.
Christina Rossetti: Not so fast.
May 16, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Me: Gee, it's been a lot this week, what with the rise of fascism, the University sector in crisis, etc. I know what will life my spirits: poetry!
Christina Rossetti: Not so fast.
Christina Rossetti: Not so fast.