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Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social · 18d

Just a reminder of the conference tomorrow

‘Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now? Contemporary interventions in art and literature’.

Date and Location: starting at 9am, Sat 20 Sept 2025, Birmingham and Midland Institute, UK.

For all the details: www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/event-detail...

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 18d

Only 3 more days to submit to the roundtable on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century that @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social and I are organizing for the 2026 ASECS. Your abstracts have to go through the ASECS portal, but please reach out to us individually if you're thinking of submitting & have any questions.

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Sep 7

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch
We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period
—its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · 20d

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · 20d

Book launch of a new Alice Meynell collection! Please book your seat. Talks by Alex Wong and great grand daughter, and renowned film theorist, Laura Mulvey. Date 31 October 2025.
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies: Alice Meynell- Book Launch with Talks by Alex Wong and Laura Mulvey

Book Launch with talks Selected Poems and Essays by Alice Meynell Edited by Alex Wong Prefaced by Laura Mulvey

www.bbk.ac.uk

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Aug 12

I would do some Vernon Lee, 'Oke' story from Hauntings.

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Aug 3

Feliz de que se pueda leer por fin en castellano a Levy, Harkness y Black. Gracias Gonzalo Montor y gracias a El Pais.

Paco Gómez Escribano @pacogomezescribano.bsky.social · Jul 31

El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness elpais.com/cultura/2025...

Las ‘sinsombrero’ inglesas de finales del XIX llegan a España tras 100 años de olvido

El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness

elpais.com

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Paco Gómez Escribano @pacogomezescribano.bsky.social · Jul 31

El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness elpais.com/cultura/2025...

Las ‘sinsombrero’ inglesas de finales del XIX llegan a España tras 100 años de olvido

El traductor Gonzalo Gómez Montoro da a conocer por primera vez en castellano obras de las escritoras Amy Levy, Clementina Black y Margaret Harkness

elpais.com

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Jul 24

As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza amidst its ongoing genocide, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed themselves and their families.

Read on: amn.st/63322fK1Ze

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Jul 22

79 people shot in Gaza over the weekend: There is no excuse for starving people and then opening fire on civilians desperately lining up for food. None.

Congress must not give Netanyahu another penny of unconditional military aid.

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Jul 19

Unbearable
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril

Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them

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Cíara @ciaragemmam.bsky.social · May 17

Spanish TV before Eurovision today

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Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social · Apr 8

I went to talk to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday morning to talk about my @mitpress.bsky.social book 'Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past and Present'. Catch it on iPlayer.
#nonfictionreads

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Apr 8

The wonderful Isabel Davis!

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Apr 8

Here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Jane Ford @janeford.bsky.social · Apr 3

It was so great to have @drsallybd.bsky.social and @bradders953.bsky.social on campus for their amazing paper, “Do Androids Dream of Vernon Lee?” yesterday. There are still two speakers left in Teesside English and Creative Writing seminar series. All welcome!

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Apr 3

Word of the day? Penguins

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · Mar 14

Tesla tea party! 😂

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Mar 6

Would be great to have you there and here your thoughts!

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Mar 6

I loved every minute of this. What a wonderful conference. With thanks to the brilliant @juliemariewise.bsky.social and @yivory.bsky.social Papers by new scholars in the field were 🔥🔥And there was a #MichaelField strand too!

Julie Wise @juliemariewise.bsky.social · Mar 2

What a fantastic event this has been! Smart papers, witty conversations, good friends, old and new. Thanks to extraordinary co-organizer @yivory.bsky.social, keynotes @kristinmahoney.bsky.social and @veryverso.bsky.social, as well as everyone else who made this weekend happen. Now, time for a nap.

Publicity announcement for a conference, featuring a drawing of a woman in 1890s dress, rendered in bold yellow, white, and black

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Julie Wise @juliemariewise.bsky.social · Mar 2

What a fantastic event this has been! Smart papers, witty conversations, good friends, old and new. Thanks to extraordinary co-organizer @yivory.bsky.social, keynotes @kristinmahoney.bsky.social and @veryverso.bsky.social, as well as everyone else who made this weekend happen. Now, time for a nap.

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Mar 6

Friends, do come along if you are in the Boston area for my talk on Michael Field and Women Artists @harvard.edu
libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14158949

Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field Book"

Houghton Library welcomes Ana Parejo Vadillo, who will give the Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field...

libcal.library.harvard.edu

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Mar 4

That’s right. 🇺🇦

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Mar 4

Huge congrats Isabel!!!! It’s beautiful

Isabel Davis @drbeldavis.bsky.social · Mar 4

Dear BlueSky,

Please widely share that my book is out today. 🚀 It tells wild & wonderful, (& arrestingly illustrated) little-known histories from the reproductive frontline. It is a history like no other and like any other, ie brill & for any history lover anywhere.

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The cover of my beautiful new book, Conceiving Histories. Black and white photo collage of a naked woman arms crossed riding a guppy side-saddle, in front of a moon. Title is in coral pink. Names of author and illustrator in white.

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Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social · Feb 21

Victorian Poetry is thrilled to announce a new open-access special issue, “Transition and Transformation.” Guest edited by Erik Gray, it features contributions by Florence Boos, Mary Ellis Gibson, @lindakhughes.bsky.social , Britta Martens, & Herbert F. Tucker. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53644

Table of contents for the new special issue, “Transition and Transformation”:

Special issue preface by ERIK GRAY tracing Victorian Poetry’s recent transitions and
celebrating the field’s debt to JOHN B. LAMB, journal editor from 2005 to 2024

LINDA K. HUGHES, “Queer Forms, Queer Grief: Reclaiming and Transcending Loved
Remains in Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Michael Field’s The Longer Allegiance”

MARY ELLIS GIBSON, “Sensation, Sati, and Retribution in Mary E. Leslie’s Sonnets on
the Indian Mutiny”

HERBERT F. TUCKER, “Compost Happens: Composition and Decomposition in
Victorian Literature”

BRITTA MARTENS, “From the Execution Ballad to the Dramatic Monologue: Criminal
Confession Reconfigured”

FLORENCE BOOS, “Morris the Skald: Icelandic Translation as Social Liberation”

Table of contents for 60th anniversary issue:

JOHN B. LAMB, “Introduction: The Place of Victorian Poetry”

ERIK GRAY, “Keeping Faith in Victorian Poetry”

STEPHANIE KUDUK WEINER, “Reflections on Years in Victorian Poetry”

LEE O’BRIEN, “Victorian Women’s Poetry and the Near-Death Experience of a
Category”

MICHELE MARTINEZ, “Undisciplining Art Sisterhood”

HELEN GROTH, “Photography, Novelty, and Victorian Poetry”

MONIQUE R. MORGAN, “Poetry, Politics, Possibilities”

JASON RUDY, “Reaching Wider: Anecdotes from a Victorianist in the Australian
Archive”

LEE BEHLMAN, “Women and Light Verse: On May Kendall”

MARION THAIN, “Reading Victorian Poetry as the World Burns”

ANDREW M. STAUFFER, “Analog Intelligence”

CHARLES LAPORTE, “Victorian Poetry in an Age of Cultural Secularization”

LINDA K. HUGHES, “Whithering: Or ’Tis Twenty Years Since”

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University English @univeng.bsky.social · Feb 3

This is an important letter from bodies representing Arts and Humanities in the UK. Please share widely

Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social · Feb 3

The Arts and Humanities Alliance have written an open letter to Bridget Philippson, Secretary of State for Education, on the recently announced cuts across the sector. We are concerned that these measures disproportionately affect our disciplines and call for an urgent government review.

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Ana Parejo Vadillo @veryverso.bsky.social · Jan 29

hang in there Martin. Sending you all my love