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Dr Nada Saadaoui

@nadasaadaoui.bsky.social
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PhD in English Literature @ Uni of Cumbria | Researching walking in Jane Austen’s landscapes, Romanticism & women’s writing (18th–19th c.)

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Cruz @calcruz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“To walk is to control your own movement, to maintain autonomy and resist the genteel suffocation of being constantly observed or helped.” - from last year, an article about walking’s importance to Jane Austen & her heroines, by @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social theconversation.com/for-jane-aus...
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For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
For Austen’s heroines, independence often begins on foot.
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Sue Wilkinson @suewilkinson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A celebratory end to this year's Cultural Landscapes series: the speaker, @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social, passed her PhD viva y'day. She's the first grad from the Cumbria Uni MA in 'Literature, Romanticism & the English Lake District' to complete a PhD. Congrats Dr Saadaoui! @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A superb talk this evening on the significance of acts of walking in Jane Austen’s novels by our PhD student @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social and a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Nada’s successful viva yesterday 🥳 A very special way to bring the 2025-26 Cultural Landscapes series to a close 📚🍃
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The next event in our Cultural Landscapes series will be a free public talk on Jane Austen and Romantic Pedestrianism by @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social The talk will take place on Tue 2 June (6.30pm) at our Ambleside campus. For further details & to book a place see: www.ticketsource.com/cultural-lan...
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Very excited to announce that tickets are now available for the book launch of my new book on Beatrix Potter. Taking place at the University of Cumbria’s Ambleside campus, 2-4pm on Saturday 10 January, further details and booking link can be found here: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Coming soon: "An A-Z of Beatrix Potter" explores the author's works and legacy through a series of short, interlinked essays. Learn more: bit.ly/3M8rSml @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social
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Dr Nada Saadaoui @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Thrilled to be part of the final episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail 🎙️ I joined @theconversation.com in Lyme Regis to talk Persuasion, walking, and what happiness meant to Austen 🌊👣 Listen here 👉 theconversation.com/jane-austens... #JaneAusten250 #Persuasion #Podcast
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Jane Austen’s happiness was complicated – her last heroine in Persuasion knew why
The sixth episode of Jane Austen’s Paper Trail explores whether Austen was happy, through the pages of Persuasion.
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Suzi Love @suzilove.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
1803 Empire Style High-Waisted Blue Dress with Train. White sleeves and bodice trim, carrying a fan. White lace bandana with long lace tail. #janeausten #r#regencyfashionplate books2read.com/SuziLoveFash...
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 31/10/2025
In 1841, 25 years after Jane Austen's death, Cassandra Austen burned nearly all of her sister’s letters. Why did she do it? That mystery – and many others – drives Jane Austen’s Paper Trail. Listen to the trailer now. The first episode launches on 4 November. tcnv.link/mYl1qtM
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Introducing Jane Austen’s Paper Trail – a new podcast from The Conversation
Listen to the trailer for a new podcast series marking 250 years since Jane Austen’s birth.
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 21/10/2025
Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
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How Jane Austen’s landscapes mapped women’s lives
Austen’s cities, seaside resorts, country estates and naval towns remind us that geography is never neutral.
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
‘Austen’s mapped worlds remind us that geography is never neutral. It shapes choices, relationships and power’. Her novels ask a question still urgent today: ‘where, and how freely, can women move?’ Another superb piece in @uk.theconversation.com by my doctoral student @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social 📚🍃
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I am absolutely thrilled with the cover design of my new book on Beatrix Potter. Forthcoming with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social in early January, the book is now available to pre-order: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/az-of-bea...
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
In this new article @uk.theconversation.com my wonderful PhD student @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social offers a powerful case for Elizabeth Bennet as Jane Austen's best heroine: one who 'demands respect, not rescue' & defies 'social expectations to forge her own path’ theconversation.com/who-was-jane...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Andrea Hayes, textile artist based in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for her textile landscapes #WomensArt
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a  landscape with fields and distant mountain next to the sea
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Paul Willson @pauljwillson.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Heather on Holme Fell
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Dr Nada Saadaoui @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Delighted to contribute to The Conversation UK’s Jane Austen Fight Club series alongside a brilliant group of scholars! I’m championing the sharp, independent Elizabeth Bennet as Austen’s best heroine 💪📚 Read the full piece and cast your vote: lnkd.in/eEepFUxt #JaneAusten250 #ElizabethBennet
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Who was Jane Austen’s best heroine? These experts think they know
We’re pitting her much-loved heroines against each other in a battle of wit, charm and sass
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Anna Lou Walker @annalouwalker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Introducing Jane Austen Fight Club! Over the next few weeks, academic experts will go head to head arguing for Austen's best leading man, heroine and novel. But the winner is up to you. Check out our first instalment and vote for your fave Austen heartthrob here: theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
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Jane Austen fight club: experts go head-to-head arguing for her best leading man
The winner is down to you!
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Dr Nada Saadaoui @nadasaadaoui.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Fantastic contribution to the #JaneAusten250 series by my brilliant supervisor @DrPennyBradshaw. Thoughtful and compelling defence of Mr Darcy and a brilliant reminder that Austen’s heroines helped redefine what makes a true romantic hero.
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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one? theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
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Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one?
Although many women writers were critiquing society in the 18th century, hardly any of them were considered satirists.
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Article in The Guardian on seaside towns features a lovely section on Millom and Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson's connections to the town: Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... #LiteraryLandscapes #Poetry&Place
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Where tourists seldom tread, part 18: three seaside towns that defy the tides of fashion
Ayr, Bangor and Millom routinely bring up the rear in coastal town polls, but they offer a calmer alternative to the brash traditional seaside resorts
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Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
'With busy eyes I pierced the lane In quest of known and unknown things,' 🖊 Dorothy Wordsworth, 'Thoughts on my sick-bed' (1832) 🖼 Ursula Hurst
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Scroll @scroll.in · 03/07/2025
In an age where walking is once again praised for its physical and mental benefits, #JaneAusten's fiction reminds us that these virtues are not new. Her characters have been walking for centuries. scroll.in/article/1084... ✍️Nada Saadaoui Via The Conversation
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
You may have thought Jane Austen was a quiet spinster, but @devoney.bsky.social puts that myth to rest. Tracing the author's life and legacy across 250 years, she reveals an Austen far wilder than the one we know. Publishing to mark Austen's 250th birthday, pre-order now! #JaneAusten #booksky
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Telly Visions @tellyvisions.org · 25/06/2025
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen adaptations come in generational waves. The 2020s have produced 'Sanditon,' 'Emma,' and 'Persuasion,' with 'Pride & Prejudice' on the way. Now 'Sense & Sensibility' is too.
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Daisy Edgar-Jones to Star as Elinor Dashwood in New 'Sense & Sensibility'
We have officially entered the next Jane Austen era, as Focus Features announces production of a new film adaptation of Sense & Sensibility, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones.
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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
9pm TODAY on @BBCFOUR The Real Jane Austen Drama-documentary about the life of #JaneAusten. Anna Chancellor, a relative of Jane Austen, explores the woman behind the acclaimed novels through readings and reconstructions. #BookchatWeekly
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BBC One - The Real Jane Austen
Drama-documentary exploring the life of Jane Austen.
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Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It soon appeared that London was not the place for her. She could not endure its noise. Her nerves were under continual irritation and suffering; #JaneAusten #Emma
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Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I assure you that I dread the idea of going to Brighton as much as you do, but I am not without hopes that something may happen to prevent it. #JaneAusten #letters #1799
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Jane Austen @janeaustenlit.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It had been excessively hot the whole day… #JaneAusten #letters1811
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Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Absolutely thrilled to see this excellent piece by our MA graduate and now PhD student, Nada Saadaoui, on walking as a form of resistance for Jane Austen and her heroines, published in ‘The Conversation’ today: theconversation.com/for-jane-aus...
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