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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also no one in the background has a face. Ghoulish, and not in a fun way.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I would not like an AI summary, I would not like it on a boat, I would not like the email bloat, I do not like it on a chair, I would not like it anywhere! I do not like them on a phone, I do not like them in my home, I do not want them on a search, I do not like them in a church

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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Submit an abstract to NVSA, 16-18 April 2027, at Seton Hall! Conference theme is— TRASH —with a wide purview from waste management & sanitation to muckraking & "trashy" texts, from sweeps & scavengers to body-snatchers, & all manner of surplus and residuum... 🗑️ 300-word abstracts by October 15! 🗑️

"View of a Dust-Yard" engraving: women and children dig and sift through a 19th-century "dust-yard," dogs and ducks nearby, overturned cart and smokestacks in background

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Regency-era mugs, gifts for #19thc children who managed to stick to their books & learn to read. Their mottoes are grim but maybe necessary admonitions, too, for the academic who's soldiering on while coming to terms with the fact that it's August now. I.e. I feel seen. #AcademicLife

The motto painted on a red background on this little mug reads "Idleness Brings Disgrace."

The motto painted on the purple-ish background of this little mug is "Be Willing to do Well without Praise."

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hell yeah 💅

The new translation will also give readers far more of Wilson's scholarly commentary. "I'm also going to quadruple the number of endnotes because endnotes are really fun to write," she said.
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Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Appropriate since snakes do not have arms.

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of those books that's never not useful, and so quotable!

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I had a wonderful time in London this weekend. It was a pleasure to be invited to speak by the @gaskellsociety.bsky.social on similarities between Austen's Emma (1815) and Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers (1863) to such a warm and welcoming group!

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I need new podcasts! Bonus points if anyone manages to find one dedicated to Elizabeth Gaskell

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

What's a siege got to do with Dracula? Everything. Siege's usually involve and end when the food and water run out and people are forced into survival cannibalism!

Request for anytime with siege knowledge in Transylvania

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The ventilated corset, a solution to tropical living for the Victorian lady www.instagram.com/reel/DNBII_8...

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Throwback podcast short from August 2024! www.instagram.com/p/DM70PezN9Il/ Is Emma Woodhouse a bicon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

They're both bad, but who's worse? ♥️⬇️ to vote

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

A podcast throwback from July 2024! Inspired by some of the feedback that Oxford World Classics got as part of its 'Guess the title' for Women's History Month that year.

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My summer in Southampton included: walking the Jane Austen trail, a flying visit to Tudor House and Gardens, touring the Titanic exhibition at SeaCity, hiking through the Royal Country Park to see the famous Victorian Hospital that Arthur Conan Doyle's Dr Watson attended.

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

#otd in 1884 Richard Parker, a 17-year-old cabin boy was killed so the remaining crew of the shipwrecked Mignonette could survive on his blood and body. The crew had been at sea in an open boat for 20 days with only two tins of dry turnips, one turtle, and no fresh water.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

What's your favourite Mansfield Park adaptation?

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It's now under two weeks until the event of the summer kicks off ☀️ If you're coming to the Global Austen conference I'd love to know so I'll be able to recognise some friendly faces! #globalausten2025 #janeausten #janeaustenconference

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Kimberley James @kimberleyjames.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This is so exciting! Who’d have thunk that little web series of ours would still be of interest 10 years later!

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Having amassed, last year, examples of bugs in 📚s, I'm sticking with my theme of volatilia, but now collecting examples of feathers in 📚s. Here's one (a real one!), intended for an album, from the John Johnson collection of ephemera at the Bodleian. I love it! If you have any, will you share pls?

Cut lace embossed card with, in the centre, the caption "The Tongue of the Absent" and a picture of an inkwell, a letter just begun, and a quill pen. The pen is formed of an actual feather.

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Have you ever heard of From Mansfield With Love? Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Possibly the most aesthetic edition of Mansfield Park I own 🌹

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

#OTD in 1743 Anna Laetitia Barbauld was born. She was a renowned poet, children's author, shrewd editor, and an insightful essayist. Here are some of my very favourite quotes from 'On the Origins and Progress of Novel-Writing' a preface to the British Novelists (1810).

"the humble novel is always ready to enliven the gloom of solitude, to soothe the languor of debility and disease, to win the attention from pain or vexatious occurrences"

"the unpardonable sin in a novel is dullness: however grave or wise it may be, if its author possesses no powers of amusing, he has no business to write novels"

"it is safer to meet with a bad character in the pages of a fictitious story, than in the polluted walks of life"

"Some perhaps may think that too much importance has been already given to a subject so frivolous, but a discriminating taste is no where more called for than with regard to a species of books which every body reads."

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

The perfect view for writing the next section of my Dracula article ✍️ how claiming the earth can be a mark of power

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Rereading Hallie Rubenhold's The Five yet again! 5⭐

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Brian Simpson's Common Law and Cannibalism has some excellent sketches added in on Regina versus Dudley and Stephens case. A fantastically useful book that's unfortunately out of print.

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Late April Fools Day soy sauce in yesterday's food delivery 🎅

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

The worst has happened. Two pages into a book and it hits me with "since this study is not intended as a law book or designed primarily for professional scholars, I have not encumbered the pages with footnotes." 😱

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Early Easter treats from the local bakery! 🐣

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Time for a break in nature, less survival cannibalism but a little woodland gothic

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Did you miss my Dracula and survival cannibalism at sea talk last Saturday? Don't worry, we're not ships passing in the night - my talk has now been uploaded on the Romancing the Gothic's YouTube page so you can watch it any time 🧛⚓⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4iY...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Join me today at 10am or 7pm (depending on your time zone). We're delving into a voyage of the damned, the lost souls of the Demeter in Bram Stoker's Dracula 🎫 linktr.ee/emmaprobett

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

🧛 still time to grab your tickets for my talk tomorrow!

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It's less than 24 hours before my talk on Dracula and survival cannibalism at sea with Romancing the Gothic! There are two time slots, 10-11am and 7-8pm UK time so you can tune in from anywhere in the world. Grab your free tickets on Eventbrite using www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dracula-as...

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Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Today’s deadline day! Get your abstracts in to join us in beautiful Bath in July for the long 18thc PGR/ECR @bsecs.bsky.social conference on Façades! (all interpretations welcome!) Any Qs get in touch at postgrad@bsecs.org.uk. Details in post below ⬇️ #skystorians

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If I could go back in time, one of my trips would be to pay Dr John Rae. He went to the Arctic in search of the Franklin Expedition. He found their camp and confirmed that they had resorted to cannibalism. Lady Franklin didn't like the answer and refused to pay him the reward.

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Trying to tidy up my office.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This a reminder that we have a call for papers for this year's Romancing the Gothic conference and we're interested in people working on Short, Weird, Ghostly and Fantastic fiction to mark an MR James anniversary! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/01/...

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

cfp | call for papers

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 19/03/2025

Hope some of that coin is headed to fundamental, unglamorous digital infrastructure and security to avoid a repeat of the total disaster that imploded their backend… (It’s not, of course, because that isn’t a Naming Opportunity or New Funding Stream in Rent or a Beautiful Object to Cut A Ribbon On)

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

'Moby Dick' was based on the sinking of The Essex. But did you know that sperm whales are predisposed to turn in the direction that the wind last blew when they're fleeing? Even if a ship's in the way. 🎫 More fun facts in my talk this Saturday linktr.ee/emmaprobett

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Did you know... The survivors of the Raft of the Medusa lasted three days before resorting to survival cannibalism - and some of the survivors posed for this painting! Join me on Saturday (10am or 7pm ) to learn more about survival cannibalism and Dracula! 🎫 Tickets in bio!

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Today's reading is 'The Night Side of Dickens: Cannibalism, Passion, and Necessity' and the different ways of what it means to consume people. I will be less metaphoric on my talk this coming weekend with my talk on Dracula and survival cannibalism! 🎫 linktr.ee/emmaprobett

Burgers (Often Erstwhile Resurrectionists or Resurrection Men) Garnering Fresh Bodies for Sale

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This is really amazing scholarship

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