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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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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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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 · 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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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

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 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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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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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Research break for coffee cake 🍰

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

On a recent visit to Chelsea to give a talk on Elizabeth Gaskell's library records I stumbled across Bram Stoker's residence. Only one more week to go until my talk on Dracula and survival cannibalism! 🧛 linktr.ee/emmaprobett

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A fantastic statue of King Lear with a gaggle of geese and an incredible dirty chai

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thomas Cook's home is a couple of streets away from my office. The tragic loss of his daughter following a malfunction with the (then) new gas water heater was

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

It's fresh and foggy, perfect Dracula weather. Less than two weeks to go before my talk with Romancing the Gothic. Get your tickets linktr.ee/emmaprobett🌳

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

The most beautiful bouquet of thank you flowers I've ever been gifted! 🌷

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

#OTD Anna Laetitia Barbauld died in 1825. She did a number of amazing things but my favourite is being the editor of British Novelists (1810). Taking on a role often assigned to men and explaining her choices in a beautiful complex essay - choices about the canon which stands the test of time today!

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just delivered! Really looking forward to reviewing it for @gaskellsociety.bsky.social ✍️

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Happy #worldbookday2025 Some excellent books in the new book box library 📚

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The only person to lose their life on the Titanic lived just up the road from my office! 🚢

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Post it notes on post it notes on post it notes! 📑

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

"There is no record of a meeting in the summer of 1808 between Jane Austen and Lord Byron near where they were both staying, but if an encounter had taken place, it is most likely to have been in what is now Knightsbridge, close to where Harrods now stands." Just imagine 👀

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Three weeks to go until my talk with Romancing the Gothic! You know Dracula the vampire, but have you considered that he's engaging in survival cannibalism? 🎫 Book your FREE tickets using the link in my bio

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Happy 211th Birthday to The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties by Frances Burney published in March 1814

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Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Highly recommend this book on Jane Austen and Lord Byron - I put down so many page markers when I reviewed it at the end of last year and keep coming back to it!

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