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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Nishtha Trehan: Robert can invade Lady Audley's space, go through her things, and read her letters because she is a woman. :(

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Nishtha Trehan: Braddon lets us into some *secret* correspondence. It transforms from private matter into public evidence.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics: Nishtha Trehan: to leave a letter unopened is to censor it! (Me: in the modern British imagination, this also happens in Stoppard's ARCADIA [1990ish?] which I just saw.) 😎

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Nishtha Trehan (joining us online from Uttarakhand): Victorian women's letters are NOT private-sphere-only, but when they cross into the public they risk "rebounding" against their writers. (Ouch!)

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics: Helen McKenzie: more of the literary labor force: Mr. William Tinsley is "an untiring *****worker**** in the field of literature," said Braddon. His RLF app was rejected. (Emphasis Helen's.)

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Braddon recommended to the RLF the "praiseworthy life and intellectual labour" of writer Miss Edith Heraud.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Helen McKenzie: The RLF and Braddon's letters of recommendation. Wrote about 1/2 for women writers, who "toiled and fought" - breadwinners and a frighteningly modern literary precariat.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Debora Sarnelli: Collins commodities himself! ("I may become once more a saleable commodity in the English book-market" (1867)

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Debora Sarnelli reveals the interactivity of Wilkie Collins's writing process as shown by his interaction with the public in his letters. How do texts reach readers? How do systems that involve readers make circulation possible?

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Hannah Winspear-Schillings: c19 pre-history of autism & autistic representation. "The Library in the Window." Trying to "read for resonance" with autistic characters.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Tyler Clark: Unearthing drag/transfemininity/"effeminacy" in the digital archive. 1846: "A Man in Woman's Clothes." 1850: "Eliza/Elijah Scott the Black Man/Woman." "Her Majesty, Queen of CAMP" (1874 - first ref?!). 1880: "Raid on a Fancy Dress Ball in Manchester." "Fancy Dress"=Drag.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"Deerstalker" hats are dangerously genderqueer fashion for women, thought Marie Corelli? Sherlock's hat? @coppertapestry.bsky.social #VPFAPublics

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Jo Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social : Marie Corelli gave public speeches to "my public" of 1000s. Literary celebrity-> "platform poetry." Inconsistent, as Corelli bashed women for unfeminine public speech? Check out Jo's biography of Corelli from the VPWW Series. #VPFAPublics

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#VPFAPublics: Beniko Imamura: Victorian theatrical adaptation was not a one-way street. It was a back-and-forth "process of competition."

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#VPFAPublics @braddonite.bsky.social : Lady Audley is the "complete actress." Female performance compelled by external forces, contra Victorian scientific thought.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Theatricalities panel. @braddonite.bsky.social (Anne-Marie Beller): For Braddon, theatre = metaphor for social performance. "Acting" explores social performativity. Complex, shifting reps of actresses reflect changing ideas about acting.

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Mercedes Sheldon @mercedessheldon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Congrats {belatedly} to @ttendthetale.bsky.social on this well-deserved recognition!

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"If you think students are using AI, what are you doing to make them NOT use AI?" - Lucie #VPFAPublics

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"we are able to physically and visually experience aspects of history" in Lucie's creative assessments. #VPFAPublics

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Lucie's module concludes with a tea party at which students write on the tablecloth. This sounds fun - and increases student engagement and belonging.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

#VPFAPublics Lucie Matthews-Jones asks us to think about what "sparks joy" in our teaching.

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Rebecca Nesvet @ttendthetale.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

George Gissing, prophet of Hell. His character who imagines this is a woman writer.

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