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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“She looked like Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront.” RIP.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The irony. Sathi's article recently appeared in the TLS. He was exposed by Norwegian academic.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

An adaptation of Mrs Dalloway by the RSC is coming to the Swan Theatre, Stratford from next April. www.rsc.org.uk/mrs-dalloway

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My partner's birthday gift to me: a first edition, first printing of EM Forster's Battersea Rise (1955) inscribed by EMF himself. Overwhelmed.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hope End. Not a counterstrike against Andy Burnham's "Hope Again" speech from yesterday, but Elizabeth Barrett Browning's (EBB) childhood-to-early-adulthood home in Ledbury, Herefordshire. The actual house EBB lived in was demolished in the 19th C, but another was built in its place.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thoroughly enjoyed Gerri Kimber’s new biog of Katherine Mansfield. So compelling was it that I read it in just two sittings. KM’s life is so meticulously researched & beautifully told by Kimber that I couldn’t put the book down. I feel I “know” KM much better than I ever did before.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Got an early birthday card from my brother in Australia. He knows me well….

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had no idea Anita Brookner received an honorary doctorate from the University of Reading (photo from Hermione Lee’s new biog of AB).

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A new biopic on Mary Wollstonecraft by Mia Hansen-Løve is coming…

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Agnes Obel’s latest album - The Meaning of Flowers - was released today. I’ve had it on repeat all morning. It’s fabulous. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This afternoon, we visited the small medieval town of San Gimignano (SG) in the Tuscan hills. Forster based the fictional town of Monteriano on SG in his first published novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905). WAFTT actually still had the working title “Monteriano” at the proof stage.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This afternoon, we visited Casa Guidi, home to poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning (EBB) & Robert Browning from 1847-61. The couple eloped to Italy in 1846 to escape EBB’s father’s disapproval of their marriage. It was whilst living in Casa Guidi that EBB wrote Aurora Leigh & Casa Guidi Windows.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This morning, we visited the Hotel Jennings Riccioli on the banks of the Arno in Florence. Now private apartments, it used to be known as the Pensione Simi & was where EM Forster stayed with his mother in 1901-2. Pensione Simi was the inspiration for Pensione Bertolini in A Room with a View (1908)

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“A view? Oh, a view! How delightful a view is!” (from EM Forster’s A Room with a View). Lawrence is in Florence for a week, & this is the view from our lovely little rental apartment.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Went out blackberry picking just now. Nice haul. Still have lots more to pick.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Previously unseen EM Forster & Bob Buckingham memorabilia coming to the Bloomsbury Festival in Oct at the Holborn Library, London. Exhibition will be held throughout Oct & "offers new insights into EMF’s legacy of connection & working class history." bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/whats-on/em-...

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EM Forster's Legacy of Connection: Unseen Memorabilia

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A BBC obituary on EM Forster which aired in July 1970 - one month after Forster's death. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC4p...

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E. M. Forster | BBC Obituary programme (14th July 1970)

YouTube video by E. M. Forster Brasil

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“Never judge a book by its cover.” “Ok, I’ll buy this one because of its title.”

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

*** Lecturer in British Romantic Literature *** £41,064 to £46,049 per annum University of Glasgow #English #poetry #romanticism #Literature #HigherEd www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS069/l...

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"That's not a cocker spaniel!" What a very odd book cover.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/08/2026

‘Part of the pleasure of the books is that they present us with a less ethereal version of Woolf than we usually encounter. More granite, less rainbow.’ @djbduncan.bsky.social on the books that Virginia Woolf made at the Hogarth Press. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Dennis Duncan · At Charleston: Hogarth Press

There is something magnetic about the large case containing all 34 titles that Virginia Woolf made. With their marbled,...

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's not everyday you see (what appears to be) a heron in your garden pond.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's not everyday you see (what appears to be) a heron in your pond.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Went to the Tracey Emin retrospective at the Tate Modern today. It was so powerful that I actually cried quietly at one point, which is something I've never done at an exhibition - such was the emotional force of her work. It's an exhibition that will stay with me for a very long time.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Visited the David Parr House in Cambridge today. It’s an unassuming terraced house with a wonderful hand-painted interior. Parr (1855–1927) was a working-class artist who decorated his home in the Arts & Crafts style. If you’re in Cambridge, it’s def worth a visit. davidparrhouse.org/the-story/da...

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David Parr | David Parr House

David Parr House is an independent charity in Cambridge that preserves an unassuming terraced house with an extraordinary hand-painted interior, once home to the Victorian artist David Parr and his fa...

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I’m in the archives at King’s College, Cambridge this week doing research connected with my Visiting Fellowship with the Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing at Reading Univ. I’m researching EM Forster’s publishing activities.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Graduation Day! The photo is of me with my wonderful s'visor (Nicola Wilson - middle) & Pritha Mukherjee, a fellow Eng Lit PhD student. Pritha & both had Nicola as a s'visor, started our PhDs on the same day back in Oct 2021, & also ended our journeys on the same day.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Paul Weller at Ludlow Castle last night.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The laugh of the day comes from… Rachel Reeves!

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This excellent 2009 radio drama reconstructs the impact on EM Forster of the tragic death of Ernest Mertz in 1909. Forster met Mertz just once over dinner, but that same evening Mertz returned alone to his flat & committed suicide. The drama is based on real events. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8ea...

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A Dose of Fame – Stephen Wakelam | BBC Radio Drama Inspired Literary Mystery

YouTube video by OldTubeRadio

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

In case you didn’t know, Exeter uni, where I work, has announced a plan to make 25% of staff in my English department redundant. Left-over staff will do double the teaching while their research time will be shrunk to 1%. Meanwhile admissions for English at Exeter are HIGH, and on the rise this year

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

My brother painted me this portrait of (a portrait of) Virginia Woolf for passing my viva.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I completed the minor corrections to my PhD thesis last week, & today I heard that I will be officially awarded my doctorate in 2 weeks' time. 🥳🎉

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I’m going to miss these 4 books when I have to return them to my university library next week (because I've completed my doctorate). I’ve had them at home with uninterrupted access since I first took them out on loan 4.5 years ago.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The Gwen John retrospective at the National Museum, Cardiff - "Strange Beauties" - is well worth a visit. I recently read Alicia Foster's biog of John & it was fabulous to see in the flesh the paintings Forster discusses. John really captures the essence of her subjects. The exhibition ends 28 June.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Reading about Rosamund Pike telling off an audience member for texting during a play in London over the weekend. The article went on mention other similar cases: "Andrew Scott halted his "to be or not to be" soliloquy in Hamlet, a few years back, after someone started using a laptop." A laptop?!

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Doing a @joannechocolat.bsky.social this morning & working in the shed. Nearby, the birds are singing, the cows are mooing, the sheep are baaing… & I’m working on my thesis corrections.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Oscar Wilde on why art should never try to be popular. From The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891).

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It’s well known that Elizabeth Barrett-Browning lived at Wimpole Street, London before eloping to Florence, but she lived the first half of her life in Herefordshire - near to where I now live. The Ledbury Poetry Festival is hosting an EBB Walk in Ledbury July. www.ticketsource.com/ledburypoetr...

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Some of the most welcome words I've heard this week: "I am delighted to report that after careful consideration we have decided that we would like to accept your article for publication with minor corrections."

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Visited Henry James’ former home - Lamb House - in Rye today. EF Benson (Mapp & Lucia) also lived there after James.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

So just what do you do after successfully completing your PhD viva on Virginia Woolf & EM Forster? Yes, that’s right, you walk from Charleston & across the South Downs to see the glorious murals painted by Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Quentin Bell at Berwick Church.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

So just what do you do after successfully completing your PhD viva on Virginia Woolf & EM Forster? Yes, that’s right, you take a short break in sunny Sussex to see the Hogarth Press exhibition at Charleston on Firle!

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I successfully defended my thesis yesterday. I passed with minor corrections. My examiners were perceptive, probing, and very supportive, which helped make my viva an enjoyable experience. In hindsight, I would have answered some questions differently, but I guess that’s normal.

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lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

For my recent Visiting Fellowship at the Univ of Reading, I researched E. M. Forster’s publishing activities in the US btwn 1923-25 by investigating his correspondence with the Woolfs' Hogarth Press. I wrote this blog post about what I discovered. research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b...

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E. M. Forster and the USA - Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing

by Lawrence Jones, Visiting Research Fellow (2026), Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP), University of Reading For my visiting fellowship with the CBCP at the University of Reading earlier ...

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