researcher and theatremaker | 19C literature and medicine | @lucycavcoll @newnham_college @thebsls
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Highlight of my term so far: teaching with the wonderful Rogers collection of nineteenth-century children’s literature, folklore and fairytales @NewnhamLibrary yesterday 🦉
Deadline next Friday!
BSLS Winter Symposium 2025 - Call for Organisers
The British Society for Literature and Science seeks organisers for its annual Winter Symposium.
For more details see: bsls.ac.uk/2025/06/winter-sy…
‘The Tripos examination lasting 6 hours a day for 6 days, was so terribly exhausting that I felt that nothing would have induced me to go in for it if I had realised what it would be’ Constance Garnett on sitting exams in 1883. Congratulations to all my students finishing today!
Term’s over, sun’s out, back to research. Today’s tidbit: E. M. Forster’s New Year’s resolutions on the cusp of 1905, just before the publication of his first novel.
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If you are a PGR or ECR, working with RRR is great experience - we are a friendly bunch (and we do our best to get you a physical review copy/comp tickets). I am still really keen to get a review of a theatre performance and/or conference. Please share widely!
Happy to share that our Call for Reviewers is currently open. To register your interest in reviewing for RRR, head to the 'Contact' section on our website, where you'll find our 'Call for Reviewers Form'.
We look forward to hearing from you!
rrrjournal.com/contact
Big thank you to @ChawtonHouse for hosting our English first years today! What a treat to see the first ever Mary Robinson exhibition! @LucyCavColl
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Ideal Sunday read, on the journey to decode this portrait of Francis Williams & the ‘small, furry white blob’ in the sky behind him. Should be a film with interlocking storylines in 18th century & today! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n22/…
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I've opened my Etsy shop for:
🌿botanical calendars to arrive in Jan
🐚a few of my limited edition art prints
🪶jewellery orders for🌲(UK only)
🌸vouchers for my jewellery designs(rest of world)
My prints & calendars are designed to improve mental health:
etsy.com/uk/shop/silverpebbl…
Final teaching week of the year off to a great start with an appropriately lively discussion of the 1913 premiere of The Rite of Spring (featuring re-constructed Nijinsky choreography!) and chocolate treats from a sweet student
Should also say that the recent @Sadlers_Wells Pina Bausch
/ Germaine Acogny & Malou Airaudo
The Rite of Spring / common ground[s] was one of my performance highlights of the year!
Really thrilled to have won this year’s Hamilton Prize and to have some of my PhD research out in Victorian Review soon!
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A trio of medieval hounds for #WorldDogDay.
They live in this Cambridge University Library bestiary, a medieval book of beasts (real and imaginary!).
You can see this extraordinary book close-up in the #CambridgeDigitalLibrary: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-I…
ALT A medieval drawing of three dogs. They look like a little bit like modern-day sight hounds. From the Cambridge University Library bestiary, a medieval book of beasts.
HBD to Thomas De Quincey, a fellow lover of… tea: ‘tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally of coarse nerves, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual’
#OTD 1785 Thomas De Quincey is born. Author of Recollections of the Lake Poets and Confessions of an English Opium Eater. He lived at Dove Cottage after the Wordsworths, bringing 30 chests of books (and it really isn't a big house)
Donning my theatre cap this week to say that I am very excited to open our production of ‘Heart of a Dog’ at @CamdenPT tomorrow! Come see Bulgakov re-animated almost exactly a century on 🐶 camdenfringe.com/events/hear… Who else is up at the #camdenfringe this week?
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Day 23 @camdenfringe #Interview: Miles Hitchens on his adaptation of @HeartofaDogPlay
"We don’t want our audiences to regard the piece just as a fragment of early-Soviet literature."
@CamdenPT 7 - 11 August
#theatre
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Contract signed, so I am very happy to share that I will be joining @LucyCavColl as Assistant Professor in English next year! Excited to get started and to contribute to such a wonderful college community.