From the archive: to mark the birth of Samuel Richardson #ATT 1689, his masterpiece, Clarissa lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/sam…

From the archive: "It’s the big picture that matters in a Big Picture"; Accuracy (or not) in historical film and drama lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/the…

From the archive: to mark the anniversary of its first publication in book form #OTD 1853 Charles Dickens' masterpiece, Bleak House lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/ble…

From the archive: ''Originally known as'; Ten classic novels that started life with very different titles lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/ori…

One from the archive: "The Gothic novel was written for women, and usually by them too” Jane Austen and the Gothic novel lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/jan…

From the archive, for #Halloween, Let's get Gothic.... lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/28/the…

From the archive, for #Halloween, the 'Shock and Horror Picture Show' and 19th-century phantasmagoria. Includes a surprisingly spooky reconstruction of what they might have looked like! lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/the…

"A genuine multimedia event more than 200 years before that phrase was even coined" Pamela, first published #OTD 1740 lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/puf… Originally written for the The Spectator

For Bram Stoker's birthday #OTD 1847, 'Waking the (un)dead: Myths, monsters, and remaking a classic text' lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/wak…

From the archive: A drowning, an assumed name and an unborn child - the sad story of Harriet Shelley, last seen alive #OnThisDay 1816. I explore my own theory of this sad drowning in The Frankenstein Monster lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/thi… amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-M…

From the archive: "I am for the present as unhappy, as if it were all true" Readers respond to Clarissa, the last instalment of which was first published #OTD 1748 lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/sam…

From the archive: to mark Jane Austen's birthday #OTD 1775 'How do you solve a problem like Fanny Price?" lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/exa… #Austen

"And so, waiting at this place your commands, I am, sir Your most faithful and obedient servant F J de la Tour" The last words of Richardson's Clarissa, concluding a letter dated 18th December And here's my post on this immense (in every sense) novel lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/sam…

From the archive: The Devil is in the detail; Or, How not to write a Regency novel lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/the…

Tomorrow is January 10th, the date of the first letter in Richardson's masterpiece, Clarissa. So you can start reading it in 'real time', ending on Dec 18th. Makes a 1,500-page novel more manageable! And here's why I think this is worth doing lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/sam… 18th Century Studies

"I am extremely concerned, my dearest friend, for the disturbances that have happened in your family" Richardson's Clarissa begins, in a letter dated Jan 10th (so you can start reading today) I wrote about the importance of family in Clarissa for 18th Century Studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

From the archive: For the anniversary of the publication of Pride & Prejudice #OTD 1813, how might the Netherfield Ball have played out on Twitter? lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/a-t… #Austen

On the anniversary of Mary Shelley's death #OTD 1851 'Frankenstein: Mary, Monster, Myth' "It is flawed, yes, but it is also forceful and unforgettable. Because there are images and ideas here that will stay with you forever" tinyurl.com/ybzer4uk #Frankenstein

For the anniversary of the death of Mary Shelley #OTD 1851, a flash fiction story written for the Keats-Shelley House blog in homage to #Frankenstein, 'The Prometheus Project' keats-shelley.org/blog/the_prome… And if that whets your appetite then there's always this... amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-M…

From the archive: The Shock and Horror Picture Show: Étienne-Gaspard Robertson and the 19th-century phantasmagoria lynnshepherdbooks.wordpress.com/2020/10/25/the… youtu.be/S9hVVLOHdTI