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Dr Naomi Walker

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Lecturer in English Literature. Interests - women writers walking in rural spaces. Currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine - co-organiser @placeperiodical.bsky.social

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Place and the Periodical @placeperiodical.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Free online round table, 16 Oct Off Centre: A Preview of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) Hear one of the co-editors and 3 contributors discuss this major forthcoming survey of the regional magazine as an international genre. Register here: rs4vp.org/preview-edin...
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Off Centre: A Preview of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) – RSVP
Join us on 16 October for a sneak peak of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (forthcoming for Edinburgh UP, 2028)!
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh, looky looky there! The #RSVP2027 CFP is out! Deadline: 1 Nov 2026 #ESPRit2027 CFP will come out soon—Utrecht, I forget the exact dates, but straight after RSVP Still waiting for CFPs👇 @sharpweb.org—South Africa, dates @colleenlovesbks.bsky.social? @bavs-uk.bsky.social—@vicmanch.bsky.social?
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Had a wonderful few days at #ESPRit2026 conference @esprit-jeps.bsky.social in Brussels and enjoyed presenting my paper on women writers in British regional magazines 1900-1960. Thanks to all the organisers and speakers for a fantastic conference.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities. This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
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"I am the farm worker going home at evening": gender fluidity, rural landscapes, and the Women's Land Army
Archivist Lottie Wood explores gender and landscapes in E. M. Barraud's reflections on her time in the Women's Land Army.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 29/01/2026
To round out your January, please enjoy Part 2 of "Getting Started in Periodicals Research," a conversation between @c19thnewshound.bsky.social and @patrickleary.bsky.social! In this installment, Patrick talks attributions research and digitization in periodical studies. rs4vp.org/getting-star...
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"Always Keep Turning the Page" – RSVP
This is Part 2 of our conversation with Patrick Leary on "Getting Started in Periodicals Research," part of our ongoing Interview Series.
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Deadline Monday 19th January. www.manchestercityofliterature.com/opportunity/...
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Open Call: Writer in the Park, Ljubljana Residency 2026 - Manchester City of Literature
Ljubljana, a UNESCO City of Literature since 2015, offers two one-month residencies for writers at the Švicarija/Swisshouse Creative Centre, which is part of the International Centre of Graphic Arts. ...
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 11/01/2026
We have a bonus Q&A episode of Jane Austen's Paper Trail but we need your help! Send us any questions you have about Jane Austen's life or books to podcast@theconversation.com Or comment below! ⬇️ It may get featured in the episode ....
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Ford Madox Ford Society blog is now live, with details of the six volume Ford Complete Works. Find out more in the blog article below by our OU colleague Prof. Sara Haslam. We had some excellent papers on Ford at our recent Letters and Literature conference. fordmadoxford.org/collected-le...
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Collected Letters - Volume One Update - The Ford Madox Ford Society
Collected Letters - Volume One Update
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Deadline for MinK26 approaching soon. Welcoming poems, short stories and creative non-fiction on the theme of 'The Trees' www.mklitfest.org/mink2026 #creativewriting #poetry #shortstories #flashfiction #creativenonfiction #writingcompetition
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Calling Isle of Wight writers: join Open University lecturers for 'A virtual walk through history: writing creatively about the past', a workshop at Boojum&Snark, Sandown High Street. Thurs, Jan 22nd, 5.30 - 7.30pm. No experience required. RSVP to emily.bullock@open.ac.uk @openarc.bsky.social #IoW
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
There are some great schemes & competitions for writers (especially poets) currently accepting submissions. Please share: @poetrysociety.org.uk poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/ @mklitfest.bsky.social www.mklitfest.org/opportunitie... @magmapoetry.bsky.social magmapoetry.com/competition/ #poetry
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Competitions - The Poetry Society
The Poetry Society awards £16,000 in prizes each year. Poets at all stages of their careers are celebrated, and prizes also include ways to support writers' development: courses, books, membership and...
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Place and the Periodical @placeperiodical.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Harlem Renaissance and/in Periodicals American Literature Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 20-23, 2026 Organized by the Research Society for American Periodicals
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I chatted about my article in my interview on Radio New Zealand today. Link below if you want to listen www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
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Why Jane Austen still connects with readers
Associate Lecturer in English Literature, Dr Naomi Walker explains why the author's connection with her readers is as strong as ever.
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I was interviewed on Radio New Zealand today on letters left at Austen’s grave.
I was interviewed on Radio New Zealand today about letters left at Austen’s grave.
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Happy birthday Jane Austen! Born on this day, the 16th of December 1775 - it is her 250th anniversary today! #JaneAusten
A formally posed portrait in black and white of novelist Jane Austen
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Our colleague @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social Walker has contributed this excellent article on #JaneAusten in @theconversation.com. Find it here: theconversation.com/why-jane-aus...
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Why Jane Austen readers still leave letters at her graveside
I was also amazed to discover a basket by Austen’s graveside which was overflowing with handwritten letters.
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
On Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, enjoy reading my article about letters left by her graveside. I am being interviewed about this on Radio New Zealand tomorrow morning. theconversation.com/why-jane-aus...
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Why Jane Austen readers still leave letters at her graveside
I was also amazed to discover a basket by Austen’s graveside which was overflowing with handwritten letters.
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Call for Papers: @navsa.bsky.social/NASSR 2026 Conference on 'Traffic' in the long nineteenth-century. Abstracts are due on 15th Feb. The conference will be in Pasadena, CA on 11-16th Nov 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6251
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CfP: NAVSA-NASSR 2026 Conference – ‘Traffic’ – BARS Blog
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Here is my article! Enjoy reading.
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
My article on letters left by Austen’s grave has been published @theconversation.com Thanks to @annalouwalker.bsky.social for her help. theconversation.com/why-jane-aus...
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Why Jane Austen readers still leave letters at her graveside
I was also amazed to discover a basket by Austen’s graveside which was overflowing with handwritten letters.
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Listen to the OU’s Emma Claire Sweeney on the@theconversation.com podcast,Jane Austen’s Paper Trail, Ep 4, The Friend. Emma talks about Austen's class-defying friendship with family employee and amateur playwright, Anne Sharp: bit.ly/48vpZI1.
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Jane Austen’s friendships defied social class – and empowered her writing
The fourth episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail uses the novel Emma to explore the writer’s views on friendship.
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
After an excellent first day of conference we're really looking forward to our guest authors on Friday: Karen McCarthy Woolf at 18:00 and Sigrid Nunez at 20:00. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/5793w2ch @littlebrown.bsky.social @viragopress.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @sarahsavitt.bsky.social
A flyer for the OU Letters and Literature conference, featuring photos of the guest authors, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Sigrid Nunez. It says 'Still time to get tickets for our guest authors on Friday 7th of November. Karen McCarthy Woolf - 1800 GMT. Sigrid Nunez - 2000 GMT.'
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Really enjoyed presenting my paper on letters to and from Jane Austen at the @ouliterature.bsky.social online conference today. Thank you to the organisers for such a wonderful event.
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OU English and Creative Writing @ouliterature.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Just 2 days until the conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025. With researchers and writers, heritage industry experts and guest authors @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social and Sigrid Nunez. #nationalpoetrylibrary @literatureworks.bsky.social @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social
A piece of engraved stone or tile, grey-green in colour, with an engraving partially visible, speeling the first part of the word 'blooming'. Across the surface of the stone are rust-coloured autumn leaves. There is an ink stamp on the postcard which says 'Indianapolis'
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I am giving a paper this Thursday (6th November) about letters to and from Jane Austen at this online conference. Please see details and register to attend. There are a wide range of fascinating talks all about letters and literature. digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
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Letters and Literature 1500-2025 at The Open University
Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out
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Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out
Before the word processor, before White-Out, before Post-It Notes, there were straight pins. Or, at least that's what Jane Austen used to make edits in one of her rare manuscripts. In 2011, Oxford's B...
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A well organised exhibition on Working Women in Austen’s novels at The Arc. Well worth a visit if you are near Winchester.
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Enjoyed visiting 8 College Street, Winchester this weekend - the house where Jane Austen died. A great exhibition and moving literary pilgrimage.
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Place and the Periodical @placeperiodical.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Interesting article by Anahita Ahluwalia about the decline of Urdu-language magazines in India, including some great covers. homegrown.co.in/homegrown-cr...
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More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected
More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected Once central to India’s literary and cultural life, Urdu magazines have disappeared, leaving behind not just a...
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Enjoyed attending the Creating Worlds Place Writing conference yesterday in London. Lots to think about! #OUCreatingWorlds
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Come see @alixbeeston.bsky.social talk at Edinburgh Napier on ‘Creativity in Motion: Unfinishing Feminist Film and Literary History’? Wed 30 April, 3.30-5pm (plus drinks after). All welcome; online attendance possible (message me).
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 28/04/2025
RSVP’s annual Colby Prize lecture is going digital! Join us for a special #RSVPDigiEvent on May 9 to hear from W. Hamish Fraser on "Nineteenth-Century Scottish Newspapers: The Importance of the Local." As always, this event is free and open to all! #VoicesandVisions rs4vp.org/colby-prize-...
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Colby Prize Lecture Goes Digital – RSVP
Join us May 9 for a special digital event: our annual Colby Prize lecture by W. Hamish Fraser, who will discuss his award-winning book.
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INCSA @incsa.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The submission website for the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association's new peer-review journal *Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research* is now online. We welcome submissions of all kinds. Get in touch if you have an idea for a special issue! www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research
Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.
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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
CFP: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (Submission Deadline: 5/30/25) bit.ly/4jOSaWt
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CFP: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (Submission Deadline: 5/30/25) | NAVSA
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 08/04/2025
Don't forget to join us this Friday, April 11 to celebrate @pfyfe.bsky.social's new book, Digital Victorians! Registration is still open, and, as always, absolutely free and open to everyone! See you there! #RSVPDigiEvents
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Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP
Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Having a great time at the Walking Women conference in Hamburg. Enjoyed giving my paper today and listening to all the other interesting papers
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/03/2025
🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...
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Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP
Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!
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Clare Qualmann @cqualmann.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Getting ready for a nightwalk in Hamburg next week with the wonderful @deeheddon.bsky.social for the 'walking women new perspectives' conference with @sandradinter.bsky.social. Just working on draft layouts for our guide 🌇🚶‍♀️🌌
A folded page, black with pale text that says nightwalk on it, along with symbols of the moon's phases and the constellations Andromeda and Cassiopeia A folded page with a moon textured background dotted with large words including darkness, fear, awe, agency, freedom and danger. And smaller text quotes from women writing about walking at night
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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
This is on this week if you’re about in the northwest of England…
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Dr Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Deadline extended: 25th March 2025. Submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Really enjoyed attending this OU Teaching and Learning conference in Milton Keynes this week and meeting up with lots of lovely colleagues.
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Dr Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Don't forget to submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. Applications are due this Saturday (15th March)! See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.
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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c... @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
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CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025)
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…
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Place and the Periodical @placeperiodical.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Thanks for all the chapter proposals. We are wading through them at the moment and will get back to you soon.
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Looking forward to speaking at this conference in March and hearing all the other fantastic papers.
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Place and the Periodical @placeperiodical.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Proposal deadline is this week!
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 08/01/2025
Amid the rise of vegetarianism in late 19th-century London, George Gissing used meat-free characters to probe themes of poverty, morality and social contradiction.
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What George Gissing’s fiction reveals about vegetarianism in Victorian London
Amid the rise of vegetarianism in late 19th-century London, George Gissing used meat-free characters to probe themes of poverty, morality and social contradiction.
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We have received some really good proposals so far. Keep them coming!
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Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
We have received some really good proposals so far. Keep them coming!
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