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Catherine Rose Maw

@realityandreverie.bsky.social

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18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨ Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Nov 19

Hello Bluesky! Starting to get used to this platform so, it’s probably time to introduce myself and to let you know a little bit about me and what you’re likely to find on my account… ☺️

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Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social · 6d

Three Ravens Haunting Season is BACK! 🖤

Kicking off our annual celebration of all things spooky and weird, we have today released our Three Ravens Guide to Halloween!

Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · 9d

How I love mornings like this 🍂❄️🥰

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 23d

Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS Annual Conference

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · 25d

Just a spooky girl enjoying her spooky blanket 🖤✨

Little black cat on a black and white patterned blanket.

Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · 28d

Congratulations Cleo! 🥳✨

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · 29d

Had the most beautiful time in Cambridge for #BARS2025 last week. It was great to spend time with such lovely fellow Romanticists 💕 The days were filled with Romantic treasures, insightful panels, inspiring conversations and wonderful company! Thanks so much to everyone involved ✨ @bars.bsky.social

Statue of Lord Byron in the Wren Library, Trinity College.

Latin bible inscribed “W. Wordsworth”, St. John’s College Library.

William Wordsworth’s life mask, St John’s College Library.

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Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · Sep 3

We even got to meet William Wordsworth! @19thcenturyem.bsky.social @realityandreverie.bsky.social

British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our PGR & ECR conference begins tomorrow, but right now we’re being treated to a lovely exhibition at the St John’s College, Cambridge special collections!
@bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social

A collection of Wordsworth material, including some portraits and a sonnet about the portrait.

Some copies of Coleridge works, including an autograph annotated Christabel.

Three people taking a selfie with Wordsworth’s life mask.

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Aug 8

Happy International Cat Day! ❤️🐾

Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Jul 23

“Gather round the campfire and listen in…” 🔥

Love love love this new book from @threeravenspod.bsky.social! My favourite source for all things weird, wonderful, wild and whimsical… ❤️💫🐦‍⬛

It certainly gets Trixie’s seal of approval 🖤✨

“The Three Ravens Folk Tales” open to “The Fish and the Ring: A Northumberland Tale”, fairy lights and white mug that reads “Basic Witch” on a dark wood table.

Front cover of “The Three Ravens Folk Tales” by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux on William Morris Blackthorn background.

Trixie, a black cat, enjoying “The Three Ravens Folk Tales”.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Jun 21

💚 Photo from my collection, 1977.

Color photo of a shorthaired black cat sitting by a window, looking outside at green foliage with its back to the camera with a leafy little houseplant next to it. The main light source is soft natural, indirect sunlight. It's a very calm and beautiful domestic scene.

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Paul Stephens @paulstephens.bsky.social · May 28

I am now so depressed that I have not an idea to put to paper — my hand feels like lead — and yet it is an unpleasant numbness; it does not take away the pain of Existence. I don’t know what to write.

John Keats (letter B. Bailey, 28 May 1818)

Text source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35698/35698-h/35698-h.htm#LIII
Image source (detail): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Keats_-_HH.jpg

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Apr 13

“then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think…” - John Keats 🌊✨

📍Seaham Beach

View of the ocean from Seaham Beach. Sand, rocks, waves, and a bright blue sky.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Mar 30

BARS is delighted to announce that the 2026 International Biennial Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme is Romantic Retrospection.

Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference)

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Mar 29

All things considered, however, today was lovely. Days like today, with wonderful academic staff and students, remind me exactly why I do the job I do. ✨

#stopthecuts #fundHE

Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Mar 29

Well it was rather interesting trying to get home from work today…

View of bridges across the River Tyne from the High Level Bridge.

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Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social · Mar 27

the hardest part of living alone really is trying to finish a bag of spinach

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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · Mar 13

Also BARS’ PGR and ECR account has arrived - give us a follow @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social !

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Mar 7

Recording: Joanna Baillie's The Tryal

Please find below the link to a recording of a staged reading of Joanna Baillie's The Tryal that took place on 23 October, 2024, at the Theatre Royal in Bury St Edmunds.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5853

Recording: Joanna Baillie’s The Tryal – BARS Blog

www.bars.ac.uk

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Mar 7

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#STOPthecuts #ucu @ucu.org.uk

stopthecutspetition.org.uk

stopthecutspetition

stopthecutspetition.org.uk

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just a baby girl. 🥹 Photo from my collection, 1964.

Black and white photo of a shorthaired light colored kitten sitting on a carpeted floor. She seems to be quietly prodding something with her paw.

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Feb 14

Congratulations! 🥳 Also epic choice of gif 😂✨

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · Feb 11

Just some lovely tickets to 18th-century masquerade balls 😍🎭

www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #18c

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Paul Stephens @paulstephens.bsky.social · Jan 31

And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting Love;— then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

John Keats (letter to J. H. Reynolds, 31 Jan. 1818)

Image source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gustave_Courbet_-_Autumn_Sea_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

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Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · Jan 29

Now more than ever we need to expand and develop our societal relationship with anxiety, in all its forms and crucially how communication, relationships, and anxiety can go hand in hand #skystorians #emotions

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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Jan 11

Best part of returning home from a trip is being reunited with my little snuggle bug 🐈‍⬛🩷✨

Trixie, a black cat, asleep on a beige sofa.