Launch day 🚀 tomorrow!

Advent Fair this weekend. Friday after our Christingle Service. Saturday 10 till 4. Sunday 11.30 till 1pm.

GET IN LOSER WE'RE GOING TO THE CHRISTMAS PARTY AT FOZZIWIG'S RUBBER CHICKEN EMPORIUM

Each evening through Lent from 6.30 - 6.45pm on Zoom. "Lenten Meditation". The music this Lent is a, haunting, well known Ukrainian hymn in both Catholic and Orthodox Churches in Ukraine. Let us not forget the people of Ukraine. Music: youtu.be/ruPqbsRac00

When your two passions meet 🤓 🧶 📖 : Janet's Repentance, Chapter 3

So here we go then, Just under 3 years a go (Official anniversary Sunday!) I started quizzing you all every Thursday and Saturday nights. There have been errors and glitches but fun along the way! youtube.com/live/IrBodi6lc… See you later on!

Life-writing and auto/biography Victorianists ahoy! Would anyone like to join @CHWGore & me in a conference panel for BAVS 2023 (at Surrey)? Deadline is Sunday 16th April! Our topics so far are Margaret Oliphant's autobiog, & biographical dictionaries (DNB vs. ephemeral ones)

“Renfield: Nicolas Cage's reimagining of Dracula pulls the vampire film into the 21st century” by Professor Catherine Spooner Catherine Spooner from English Literature and Creative Writing on The Conversation theconversation.com/renfield-nicol…

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order):

1/4) The burial of the 'first Roman Londoner'. This magnificent cinerary urn carved in sumptuous Egyptian basalt was unearthed in Warwick Square, London, in 1881. The urn was found to contain the cremated bones of an adult male, revealed by modern analysis to have been..

This is fantastic! Now paging my MA students RHUL Centre for Victorian Studies Department of English at Royal Holloway - I have the delight of discussing Middlemarch with them at the moment...

Akira Kurosawa's important advice to youngsters:

"People who grew up in professional families were now four times more likely than those with working-class parents to be in creative work." The arts should be accessible to all, yet many individuals still face all sorts of barriers. #ExpandArtsAccess theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

I kinda suspect you're all going to agree with me on here, but it's still worth saying!

Exciting news! ✨ We’ve launched the #GeorgeEliot TEXT EXPLORER on GeorgeEliotArchive.org 📚 Search Eliot’s entire oeuvre—novels, essays, poetry—by word or phrase. Verify quotes, investigate topics, & find context. A 2-yr #DH labor of ❤️. Try it here: georgeeliotarchive.org/textexplorer

My book is currently in production and available for pre-order ahead of publication in Feb. It has involved years of thinking through the connections between prayer, being, and action and includes reflections on the theological wisdom of 8 women writers bloomsbury.com/uk/prayer-and-…

The religious right is not the whole story. A while ago I wrote an essay about the links between faith, utopian activism & literature in American culture. It’s out now in Sheryl Vint’s new Cambridge Companion 🙏 #faith #fiction #jamesbaldwin #tonimorrison #marilynnerobinson

I am pleased to say that I have passed my Viva this afternoon and been awarded my PhD degree, subject to corrections. 💗🥂🎓 I am now Dr Poole

Academic rejection

Do come along to our new ARU 19thCentury seminar series including @Jane_M_Ford and Kathryn Poole. Details here: …nthcenturystudiesanglia.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/sem…