Francesca
@fbls.bsky.social
Lecturer. c18 women's writing and older age. PhD on Anna Seward. Should be working on her book (Palgrave, soon)
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📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
All Events - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
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February 4, 2026 at 12:13 PM
📢 We’re excited to share our programme of events for this semester, accessible on our events page. We’re offering some seminars as hybrid so we hope you can join us in York or online. Full details at www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
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I just listened to this episode and it’s my favorite commentary on HR thus far (and I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts about the show!) Refreshing to hear people talk about it who GET IT and also understand its popularity
Out now on Overinvested, our long-awaited episode on HEATED RIVALRY, covering the show's brilliantly paced romantic storytelling, its depiction of hockey culture, and much more. www.overinvestedpodcast.com/episodes/202...
Ep. 331: Heated Rivalry — OVERINVESTED
Claire and Gavia share their thoughts on the hottest show of the moment, breaking down Heated Rivalry's pitch-perfect romantic structure, its subtly insightful depiction of hockey culture, the sizzlin...
www.overinvestedpodcast.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I just listened to this episode and it’s my favorite commentary on HR thus far (and I’ve listened to a lot of podcasts about the show!) Refreshing to hear people talk about it who GET IT and also understand its popularity
My latest article is up! Published among briliant pieces within the special issue "Affective and Emotional Encounters in/with British Women's Writing, 1600–1800" eds.
Anna-Rose Shack, Zoë Van Cauwenberg, and Fauve Vandenberghe by the @abojournal.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Anna-Rose Shack, Zoë Van Cauwenberg, and Fauve Vandenberghe by the @abojournal.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
The Gendered Duality of Coldness in the Portrayals of Eliza Hayley
In the eighteenth century, coldness was defined, on the one hand, in relation to the body and the senses (a body that is lacking in heat) and on the other, to emotion (an individual lacking in passion...
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February 2, 2026 at 3:22 PM
My latest article is up! Published among briliant pieces within the special issue "Affective and Emotional Encounters in/with British Women's Writing, 1600–1800" eds.
Anna-Rose Shack, Zoë Van Cauwenberg, and Fauve Vandenberghe by the @abojournal.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Anna-Rose Shack, Zoë Van Cauwenberg, and Fauve Vandenberghe by the @abojournal.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Delighted to have had my abstract
"Older women writers and intergenerational mentoring" accepted to the @bars.bsky.social conference in Birmingham later this year! I am very excited to see all of you there 🥰
"Older women writers and intergenerational mentoring" accepted to the @bars.bsky.social conference in Birmingham later this year! I am very excited to see all of you there 🥰
February 2, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Delighted to have had my abstract
"Older women writers and intergenerational mentoring" accepted to the @bars.bsky.social conference in Birmingham later this year! I am very excited to see all of you there 🥰
"Older women writers and intergenerational mentoring" accepted to the @bars.bsky.social conference in Birmingham later this year! I am very excited to see all of you there 🥰
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www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Excellent news
Excellent news
UK aims to secure agreement to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme
Britain quit EU programme after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed it did not offer good value for money
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Excellent news
Excellent news
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📖 Presentació del còmic ‘La SEAT: motor de llibertat’ a la llibreria Jaimes
Dijous 4 amb la participació dels autors, Jordi de Miguel i Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López.
#sentitcrític
Dijous 4 amb la participació dels autors, Jordi de Miguel i Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López.
#sentitcrític
Presentació del còmic ‘La SEAT: motor de llibertat’ a la llibreria Jaimes
Amb la participació dels autors, el periodista Jordi de Miguel i la dibuixant Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López
f.mtr.cool
December 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📖 Presentació del còmic ‘La SEAT: motor de llibertat’ a la llibreria Jaimes
Dijous 4 amb la participació dels autors, Jordi de Miguel i Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López.
#sentitcrític
Dijous 4 amb la participació dels autors, Jordi de Miguel i Cristina Bueno, i dos dels protagonistes del llibre, Pilar Gómez i Pedro López.
#sentitcrític
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To honor the winter break on the horizon, Letterboxd crew and contributors share twenty underseen holiday favorites: where Christmas and Hanukkah deep cuts and surprisingly festive noir and stop-motion delights all have a seat at the table. boxd.it/2QQ
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
To honor the winter break on the horizon, Letterboxd crew and contributors share twenty underseen holiday favorites: where Christmas and Hanukkah deep cuts and surprisingly festive noir and stop-motion delights all have a seat at the table. boxd.it/2QQ
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If it this sounds intriguing, sign up below! Can't wait to hear what my fellow PGRs talk about too ✨️
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Finally, Emma Butler’s #19thCFlashTalk thinks about Anna Austen Lefroy’s 1925 continuation of Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon and its representation of the seaside, presenting the fruits of her recent fellowship at Chawton
10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
10/12, 6pm. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If it this sounds intriguing, sign up below! Can't wait to hear what my fellow PGRs talk about too ✨️
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‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Journal Home - Victoriographies Home
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December 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
‘Marie’ Christmas, Victorianists!
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited ‘Marie Corelli Reconsidered’, a special issue of Victoriographies.
It features @janetteleaf.bsky.social Adam Lewis Smith, Keiko Kiriyama, Stephen Edwards, and our own detective work into the authorship of The Twin Soul (1887) 🔍
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We have a cover
December 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We have a cover
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize.
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Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize
The Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Founded in 2025, the prize is open to book-length wor…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize.
ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...
ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation
@facudiaz.net Hola Facu, estic corregint un TFG i el corrector em suggereix això.
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
@facudiaz.net Hola Facu, estic corregint un TFG i el corrector em suggereix això.
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@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting
October 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting
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Part 2 of the video shared in yesterday’s post re @fbls.bsky.social’s essay on on erased 18thC author Eliza Hayley bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Part 2 of the video shared in yesterday’s post re @fbls.bsky.social’s essay on on erased 18thC author Eliza Hayley bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor in bit.ly/HayleyEssays
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Incidentally, bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor wasn’t @fbls.bsky.social’s first piece on Eliza Hayley. She wrote a fantastic essay on Hayley’s 1780 book: a #translation of 𝙀𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙡𝙙-𝘼𝙜𝙚 by the Marchioness de Lambert. Read it at bit.ly/FBS-WTW #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Incidentally, bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor wasn’t @fbls.bsky.social’s first piece on Eliza Hayley. She wrote a fantastic essay on Hayley’s 1780 book: a #translation of 𝙀𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙣 𝙁𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙊𝙡𝙙-𝘼𝙜𝙚 by the Marchioness de Lambert. Read it at bit.ly/FBS-WTW #lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory
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@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor
#lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation
#lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation
September 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
@fbls.bsky.social observes how “Scholarly references to Hayley are … always in relation to her husband, hardly ever recognising her own intellectual merit.” A pity, as Hayley had plenty to say… bit.ly/ElizaHayleyAuthor
#lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation
#lifewriting #18thC #c18th #womenshistory #womenswriting #reputation
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Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award!
Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.
Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.
Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr, Award — K-SAA
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September 25, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Are you a grad student, untenured faculty member, or an independent scholar doing research in Romantic-era literature and culture? There's still time to apply for a Pforzheimer Award!
Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.
Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
Apply by Nov. 1 to be considered.
Find more information here: www.k-saa.org/pforzheimera...
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Call for Contributions. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan. Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. Extended deadline for proposal submission: 5 October 2025. #essecfp.
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September 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Call for Contributions. Conference: Language and literature across the lifespan. Location and dates: University of Namur, Belgium. 11-12 December 2025. Extended deadline for proposal submission: 5 October 2025. #essecfp.
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...
👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...
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Wonderful article on Miss Lambe in Jane Austen’s Sanditon in The Conversation by our brilliant colleague, Olivia Carpenter! theconversation.com/jane-austens...
Jane Austen’s real and literary worlds weren’t exclusively white – just read her last book, Sanditon
While her inclusion of Miss Lambe, a Black character, is great, we should be wary of seeing it as representative of Austen having ‘radical politics’
theconversation.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Wonderful article on Miss Lambe in Jane Austen’s Sanditon in The Conversation by our brilliant colleague, Olivia Carpenter! theconversation.com/jane-austens...
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This is very powerful. #MentalHealth
September 23, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This is very powerful. #MentalHealth
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Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018
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Joanna Baillie’s 256th Birthday Doodle - Google Doodles
Learn more about the creation of Joanna Baillie’s 256th Birthday Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.
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September 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018
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Slightly diminish a poem:
We Are Six
We Are Six
Slightly diminish a book:
The Manslaughterbot Diaries
The Manslaughterbot Diaries
Slightly diminish a book:
The Sheep Love UP
The Sheep Love UP
September 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Slightly diminish a poem:
We Are Six
We Are Six