Recommend me a podcast

I need new podcasts! Bonus points if anyone manages to find one dedicated to Elizabeth Gaskell

Castle

Ruins

Request for anytime with siege knowledge in Transylvania

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!

Would you try a ventilated corset?

The ventilated corset, a solution to tropical living for the Victorian lady www.instagram.com/reel/DNBII_8...

Two hats and double denim

Fashion icon, Miss Matty 💅

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?

Edmund Bertram 😒

Edward Ferrars 🙄

Edward Ferrars vs Edmund Bertram

They're both bad, but who's worse?

♥️⬇️ to vote

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.

Gate

Juniper Berry Pub

Royal Victoria Chapel 1863

Tudor House and Gardens

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.

Church and grave

Memorial stone

Graveyard

Church gates

#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.

Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.

The (maybe) month after graduation is so weird. It's such an odd liminal space, I didn't know if I was coming or going, you have the joy of the celebration, contentment of achievement but you're also anchorless

1983 🌼
1999 🌹
2007 💠
2014-15 🌷

1983 Mansfield Park

1999 Mansfield Park

2007 Mansfield Park

2014-15 Mansfield Park

What's your favourite Mansfield Park adaptation?

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

This is so exciting! Who’d have thunk that little web series of ours would still be of interest 10 years later!

Cut lace embossed card with, in the centre, the caption "The Tongue of the Absent" and a picture of an inkwell, a letter just begun, and a quill pen. The pen is formed of an actual feather.

Having amassed, last year, examples of bugs in 📚s, I'm sticking with my theme of volatilia, but now collecting examples of feathers in 📚s. Here's one (a real one!), intended for an album, from the John Johnson collection of ephemera at the Bodleian. I love it! If you have any, will you share pls?

Beamish is incredible, the shops, trams, and the school room are personal favourites but I love how into the fairground people get!

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!

Mansfield Park

Austen novels

Sofa in book shop

Astley Book Farm

Possibly the most aesthetic edition of Mansfield Park I own 🌹

"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."

#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).

Cemetery

The perfect view for writing the next section of my Dracula article ✍️ how claiming the earth can be a mark of power

Book

Rereading Hallie Rubenhold's The Five yet again! 5⭐

Ships

Court

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.

Soy sauce with Santa hat

Late April Fools Day soy sauce in yesterday's food delivery 🎅

The worst has happened. Two pages into a book and it hits me with "since this study is not intended as a law book or designed primarily for professional scholars, I have not encumbered the pages with footnotes." 😱

Food

Early Easter treats from the local bakery! 🐣

Carving

Leaves

Carving

Trees

Time for a break in nature, less survival cannibalism but a little woodland gothic