Sarah Dent
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Reader, blogger and book hoarder | MA Literature of the Romantic Period 1775-1832 from @york.ac.uk 📚 Lives in #Manchester 🐝 thebookhide.wordpress.com
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New to #booksky 👋 I love the Romantics, Jane Austen, the Brontës, poetry and historical fiction 📚 I write about these and other things on my blog thebookhide.wordpress.com
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Thank you to @devoney.bsky.social and @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a great talk on Jane Austen's wildness! Looking forward to reading the book 📚☺️ #WildforAusten #reading #booksky
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Found this in #Knutsford this morning whilst I was on my way for a filling! 📚🧚‍♂️ #ibelieveinbookfairies #reading #thetimehopcoffeeshop #booksky @headofzeus.bsky.social
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Thankyou to the lovely bookworms at House of Books and Friends and @littletigeruk.bsky.social for this goody bag which brightened up a rainy lunchtime! 📚🍂☔#Manchester #reading #booksky
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You had me at Lord Byron murder mystery set in Venice 🌹💀 🇮🇹 #romanticism #byron #reading #booksky
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I adored The Way of All Flesh, must catch up with the rest of this series! 📚
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We had a great evening with ‪@ambroseparry.bsky.social‬ last night for the launch of their latest book 'The Death of Shame'.
Writing duo Ambrose Parry sitting on a stage with a photo of their book 'The Death of Shame' projected behind them. There is a large audience sitting in front of them. Husband and wife duo Ambrose Parry sitting behind a table with piles of their new book 'The Death of Shame' in front of them.
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ICYMI: HQ has pre-empted the debut novel from actor Colin Morgan, The Ballad of Ronan McCoy. The novel will be published on 18th June 2026 👇 #BookSky
HQ pre-empts debut novel The Ballad of Ronan McCoy from actor Colin Morgan
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This was waiting for me when I got home today ☺️ happy publication day @jeansthoughts.bsky.social !
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A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
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Currently listening to Helen Castor's 'The Eagle and the Hart' #audiobook, perfectly read by the author #booksky #history #nonfiction
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Hello #Booksky and everyone else who's trying to find a new platform for all things writing and literature in this corner of the internet!

We're in the same boat, and as an attempt to help Northern #Booksky grow, we made a list of folx to follow. Check it out👇

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Despite its provocative title, rather than explicitly stating that God does not exist, the essay used empirical resoning to suggest that since God cannot logically be proved to exist, the possibility of atheism must be allowed.
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#OTD in 1811 #Shelley was expelled from Oxford for refusing to deny his authorship of 'The Necessity of Atheism', which argued that "every reflecting mind must allow that there is no proof of the existence of a Deity. QED"
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"Greatness, Shelley taught, lies not in the power a person may snatch for personal glory. It lies rather in caring for one another and for nature, from which alone a universal quality of life can spring. That message is as true for our times as it was for his."

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#OnThisDay 1811, humanist and poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford University for publishing his pamphlet, The Necessity of Atheism, which argued 'If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?' heritage.humanists.uk/percy-bysshe...
Humanist Heritage: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major poet of the Romantic period, and remains one of England’s best loved and most […]
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thebookhide.bsky.social
New to #booksky 👋 I love the Romantics, Jane Austen, the Brontës, poetry and historical fiction 📚 I write about these and other things on my blog thebookhide.wordpress.com
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Currently reading 'The Painter's Daughters' by Emily Howes which I'm enjoying so far 😊📚 #reading #historicalfiction #booksky