Deputy Director at Chawton House. Joyously poking about in C18 literature. Views my own, especially those pertaining to cheese and the Eurovision Song Contest.

London, England
Joined November 2014
Adds amusing insult from Frances Burney to the mental store.
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To celebrate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday, here are his 46 best (and strangest) insults:
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The replies are the reason I'm still on Twitter.
Not sure how it happened but a bus crashed into a building near Tottenham Court Road Station. Police, Fire Brigade and ambulance in attendance.
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Really enjoyed talking to Monica Ali and Henry Eliot, the host of On the Road with Penguin Classics for the first of this fantastic podcast series:
We are delighted to appear in the On the Road with Penguin Classics podcast on Jane Austen in Chawton, with novelist Monica Ali. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas… Penguin Classics #ChawtonHouse #chawton #podcasts #penguinbooks #penguinbooksuk
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Started designing some new business cards. Got distracted by 18th-century trade cards. Made biscuit (cookie) versions of those instead. 🍪
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A fab Day 1 of the #QuillsandCharacters conference, with panels on epistolary novels, letters & instruction, posthumous reputations, intimacy & duplicity, & Jane Austen. And a brilliant keynote by Nicole Pohl on the @Montagu_Letters project. Thanks to all who joined us!
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#TuesdayTreasures "Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds." Our first edition of Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies was published in 1694 & is one of the earlier works on display in the upcoming Treasures exhibition.
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Dr Kim Simpson@AmatoryAnon·14sDelighted to have an essay: 'Chawton House and its Library: Legacies and Futures' published in a special issue of Aphra Behn Online on shaping the legacies of C18 women writers: digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
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Thanks to Marilyn Francus & fellow contributors, but also especially to @gdow12 who, during her time at Chawton House, made so much of what I write about happen, and has made so much of what we do now possible.
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Happy birthday to Frances Burney!
Replying to @ChawtonHouse
Today we celebrate Burney's comic flair. The following witty takedown is spoken by Mrs Selwyn in Burney's first novel, Evelina (1778): ‘Don’t be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.’
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Found this Big Beast trying to get into my house! Haven't seen one since I was a kid #stagbeetle #beastsofsummer
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Apart from the hay fever, the constant sweat, the sunburn, the lack of sleep, the wasps, the bug bites, the baking hot car, the 3am sunrise, the non-stop disco from next door’s garden, the yellow lawn, the heat rash, the absence of air con and the complete lack of energy… I’m actually a big fan of Summer.
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Many congratulations to this year’s Visiting Fellows, who will each spend a month in the Library to work on a broad range of fascinating research projects. You can find out more about their work here: chawtonhouse.org/2023/06/202…
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New Essays on /The Woman of Colour/ (1808), the latest ECF special issue, is live @ProjectMUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/49214 Editors Nicole Aljoe, @kerry_sinanan & @DrMariamWassif Long18thCentury ReadECF 18thCentury
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We’ve found the Book of Hours captured by Holbein in his famous portrait of #ThomasCromwell! Cromwell’s book is one of the few objects depicted in a Tudor portrait to survive. @TracyBorman has dubbed it “the most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation - if not more.”
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Bereft without any more episodes of #Succession having burned through all of it in about a month. Recommendations to fill the void please.
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