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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hi new followers!

I’m also @race-regency.bsky.social where I talk about projects like “Visualizing Property, A Virtual Exhibition”
raceandregency.org/exhibition

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 2d

🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎

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“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 7d

NYC! New zine just dropped! "Who is this Zohran Mamdani Guy Running for Mayor?"

It's got important dates, what he plans to do as mayor, how he'll pay for it, why a little socialism is good for us: the regular people, etc!

And of course you can print your own!
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Hand holding black and white illustrated hand lettered zine titled "Who is this Zohran Mamdani Guy Running for Mayor?". Portrait of Mamdani on the bottom right.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 8d

Registration is open. Register for in-person and online.

www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 8d

A weekend pleasure is walking to the bookstore to pick up books I've ordered. So excited to read these new editions from the brilliant @triciamatthew.bsky.social! Wonderful introductions, rich and learned and: "I have a soft spot for Northanger Abbey. Its first line is hilarious." So. True. 😄

Two books side by side, new editions of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey on the left and Pride and Prejudice on the right, the first bright blue and the second bright pink. Both with silhouettes containing images.

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 8d

😍 thank you!

Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 11d

Yes. And it (his reasoning) didn’t hold up to Remnick’s (gentle) probing. I think if you spend too much time around people whose ideas you actually hate, you lose a sense of your own possible shortcomings. (Also, HEY, YOU! :-))

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, I think he’s out of his depth. In the interview he talked briefly about the Trump supporters in his circle…I think he’s seeing the whole crisis from the PoV of people he likes. He also *seemed* shook by Coates’ critique.

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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 11d

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

A simple sign on a building in upstate New York that that reads “Books & Cake”

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 11d

Listening to Ezra Klein on the New Yorker Radio Hour and he seems astonishingly naive. It’s telling that he clings to an Obama USA that even Obama admits wasn’t real. I am sure he’s good at a certain kind of thinking, but I think he REALLY doesn’t get what’s happening.

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 16d

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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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 19d

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribb

Eventbrite - Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) presents The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribb - Thursday, October 30, 2025 - Find event and ticket infor...

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 25d

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And here’s a resource guide some of you might find useful.

Pride and Prejudice in the 21st Century — Patricia A. Matthew

www.patriciamatthew.com

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 25d

I talked about editing Austen for Penguin w/ @folger.edu

www.folger.edu/podcasts/sha...

Reading Jane Austen in the 21st Century with Patricia A. Matthew | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · Sep 4

“Researching Austen’s allegedly shoplifting aunt was a lot more fun than you might think.”

You might think you know everything Austen, but did you know about her shoplifting aunt?

New at PB: @devoney.bsky.social in conversation with @carolyndever.bsky.social.
www.publicbooks.org/weird-but-fa...

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wonderful conversation with Saidiya Hartman & Dionne Brand on "Salvage" which revisits and recontextualizes 18th & 19th c. novels.

"But it wasn’t inclusion that I wanted. I wanted to be addressed."
- Dionne Brand,
"An Autobiography of An Autobiography of Reading", which foreshadowed Salvage
#Lit

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · Aug 27

A rifle, shotgun, and a pistol.
Killed in the pews.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Aug 27

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · Aug 25

⚡️ New website. Big sale. ⚡️

Snag 50% off (plus FREE SHIPPING on orders over $75) with code 01NEWSITE50 at checkout. Hurry, this deal’s disappearing faster than our old homepage!

*US only. Excludes distributed titles.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace

10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here!
bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women

Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thank you!

Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · Aug 18

Original (though I saw the reboot and liked it.).

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · Aug 18

Y’all,
I have hurt my knee. I am on the mend and can get around okay but the airport is too much. I’m in a wheel chair—playing the theme to Perry Mason on the way to my gate to cheer myself up.

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · Aug 16

😳😳😳
Wow

Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · Aug 15

😅

The table read must have been BANANAS.