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Ed Grimble

@edwardfgrimble.bsky.social

London-based English and Classics Teacher. Words and essays in print—sporadically—on literature, cities, rivers, and walking. Footsore, having recently wandered over from the Other Social Media App.

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Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Football woes in Aarhus dispelled by a cold plunge, and three fabulous papers this morning on Dickensian ‘enlightenment’; Bleak House’s Jo’s knowing ‘nothink’; and performance, dandyism, and deceit. Thanks to Nora Schalkers, Matthias Bauer, Céline Prest, and Anita Fernandez Young #DickensSociety2026

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Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Céline Prest gives a dynamic & deft consideration of ‘“I don’t know nothink”: Jo’s Shakespearean Heath of the Mind in Bleak House’. Jo is a tangle of negation and affirmation of thought; he wanders ‘in a labyrinth of signs and symbols’; he bears the grime & traces of the city. #DickensSociety2026

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Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And our first panel was brought to a patient and moving close with Carolyn Vellenga Berman’s talk on ‘Trauma Thought and the Fragmented Self in ‘David Copperfield’’: what does it mean to suppress, encounter, avoid, and repair? How do we heal and ‘suture’ the fragmented self? #DickensSociety2026

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Ed Grimble @edwardfgrimble.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

After which @sophiajochem.bsky.social offered a thoughtful, thorough, and enormously thought-provoking discussion of abortion narratives in Dickens’ ‘Dombey and Son’. #DickensSociety2026

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