Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840 Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in the late eighteenth century.

My book is on sale! It is a beautiful thing to hold in your hands.

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Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840 Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in the late eighteenth century.

My book is on sale! It is a beautiful thing to hold in your hands.

boydellandbrewer.com/book/transna...

View towards the cathedral over an ancient lane

Last day of teaching in Canterbury, again. I have loved co-convening Rise of the Professional Writer. The hardest thing about sessional lecturing is hoping you get to come back.

Carpet of purple flowers, a bluebell wood in East Sussex

Highly recommend letting your two tiny children run wild in a woodland full of bluebells as a good way to get through the afternoon slump.

I read Peter Pan to my children tonight and the 20 months old ran around the room shouting FLYYYYY and trying to jump off of things while the 4 year old sprinkled fairy dust on him. Parenting is hard work but it is also magical.

Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities?

I make beautiful indexes (yes, such a thing does exist!)

I have space to take on 1-2 additional projects in April/May. Get in touch!

Is it a coincidence that many people I'm friends with are writing novels (myself included)? People who I think of more as poets, journalists, researchers, or non-writers.

Nope. It is not a coincidence. It is a good time to create a world, or write about what you'd like to see in this one.

Spent the day lecturing on women writers of history from 18th-19th c.

The students were pretty pissed that women are still dealing with the same nonsense today as two centuries ago.

They were fired up, ready to read some books/make some noise.

I love teaching. Best antidote for a troubling world.

I loved the Magic Faraway Tree. Very worth seeing it in cinema with my kiddo, who loves the books.

Picture of the cover of my book No Place Like Home with a voucher for 30% off. The Voucher number is AUFLY30 to use at global.oup.com/academic

OUP tells me I should share this. And publicise my book. So here it goes. Please read my book. It has a pretty cover. It's cheap (for an academic book) and you can have this discount! Also please review it, somewhere fancy if possible!

Just booked a solo trip to Paris. No children. No conference to attend. A friend to meet. Galleries to see. Going to get my flâneuse on.

Rendez-vous mercredi 15 avril à 19h30 aux Amies rouges (Paris 5e).

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Please do!

Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities?

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And Wordsworth (Dorothy too) obv

This is now a Mr Hayward stan account

Apologies, that is Mr Hayward. Wordsworth's poetry is an important part of the plot.

Still of the main character and love interest from The Other Bennett Sister

Deeply enjoying The Other Bennett Sister, as much as a reader of Austen as a fangirl for Wordsworth. So much fun to watch.

I was a big fan!

St Leonard's On Sea Beach in the sun

Birthday sauna, Birthday fizz, Birthday beach, Birthday writing, Birthday sun, Birthday party for 2 with my oldest friend, who came to Sussex from France to join me.

noooooo

Old growth forests, maple bars (donuts obv) and my sister.

I only realise how British I have become when my mother visits and microwaves a mug of water for her tea.

☠️🫖🤢

What if - lol - we stopped depending so deeply on oil?

Major yn Literature of any kynde:

• Focused studye & writinge prepare you for anythinge
• Research, analysis, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even inventid yet
• Meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes will staye wyth you forevir
• It ys awesome
• Bookes!

I'm hoping for recommendations for books and articles about professionalization. Historical, sociological...looking really broadly at the moment. Suggestions? #academicsky

The reason I want students to have to struggle with difficult texts is because I want them to have the capacity to make meaning in and of the world on their own.

Come and join me for some focused writing and time around a bonfire. There's even a cage for locking up your smart phone.

I say this every year, but:

The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better.

With a new addition for 2026:

They deeply hate AI.

Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork