During lockdown, Julia Bagguley (JULIA BAGGULEY) found solace & hope in her garden. Here, in the twenty-fifth #postcard of the series, she reflects on another gardener, Gertrude Jekyll, as captured in William Nicholson’s portrait. bit.ly/3hbI4y9

Shamanism, female desire, strange happenings & transformations across the multiverses: we'll be talking all this & more to celebrate the publication of the supernova that is Irenosen Okojie & her fantastic novel CURANDERA (Dialogue Publishing)for Fane fane.co.uk/irenosen-okojie

My old gardener, with his tidy mind, would turn in his grave. “Oh, Miss Vita," he would say, “how can you write such dreadful things? What, them nasty common weeds coming up here and there where they ain’t wanted? No, that ain't my idea of gardening. Not one little bit it ain't."

First Elizabeth von Arnim roses if the year 🌸

5 weeks left to apply for🗓️for The Open University Creative Writing MA scholarships for low-income UK residents from Black backgrounds.✍️📚🎓Applications open until 24/07/24. Please share🌍shorturl.at/sBhhJ 🙏Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Catherine Menon, Noctis Magazine, Where the Leaves Fall, Dr Denise Saul, OU Arts & Social Sciences

Elizabeth von Arnim course live online. Very early notification of a two-hander lecture course by ⁦Isobel Maddison⁩ and Juliane Romhild in 2025. Elizabeth von Arnim: Men, Women and Dogs. Booking open! Source: Literature Cambridge search.app/db6N42vBMM4g9q…

Forster was tutor to Elizabeth von Arnim’s children at Nassenheide. He began ‘Where Angels fear to Tread’ while there & his interview about their relationship in ‘The Listener’ is fascinating. Good to see a lecture for peace

💐 Join us for a host of in person and virtual events for the second week of our Jane Austen Anniversary Festival, commemorating the anniversary of her death and celebrating her life, works and legacy. 🔗 FIND OUT MORE and BOOK HERE: buff.ly/3v8vyar

Join us this Sunday 6.30pm (GMT) to hear brilliant authors Marianne Brooker & Prof. Pragya Agarwal mainly elsewhere now talk ambivalence & marginalisation in care-work, creativity & narratives of care, gendered emotions & language & more for Fane. Book your FREE 🎟: fane.co.uk/art-of-care

Out in paperback today. The first extended treatment of Elizabeth von Arnim’s work (hardback 2013)! @LitCamb

A very happy Christmas to all our followers 🌲🌲

Currently 20% discount off Routledge publications until 32 Jan 2025

So proud to announce that our book will be published in June. Isobel Maddison Literature Cambridge Online Modernism/modernity The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society British Association for Modernist Studies Women: A Cultural Review Edinburgh University Press

I wrote about the politics & aesthetics of the floral in recent exhibitions (Inka Essenhigh, Sharon Core, the work of Linder, Bourgeois & more) & some of my favourite books by Christina Sharpe & Jamaica Kincaid for Elephant Magazine 🌻💐🌹 Read here for more: elephant.art/bring-me-flowe…

The Elizabeth von Arnim roses survived the house move last year 🌸🌸⁦The International Elizabeth von Arnim Society⁩

A tense and heart-wrenching domestic thriller, from Lucy Cavendish 2020 Fiction Prize shortlisted author Bibi Berki, 'The Youngster' will be published on 7th August 2025 as a hardback. We can't wait to read it! hullisthis.news/the-youngster-…

We spoke with Isobel Maddison, College Emeritus Fellow and former Fiction Prize judge, to discover what's on her bookshelf. ✨📚 Read the interview at: substack.com/inbox/post/163…

⁦Isobel Maddison⁩ The Elizabeth von Arnim roses are thriving