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Delicia Johnson
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18th century England enthusiast, proud Janeite, library assistant, habitual tea drinker
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Why Should You Support Our Kickstarter Campaign To Add Music To Jane Austen's Desk?

Reason #4: Supporting public and digital humanities projects are more crucial now than ever.
December 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Why Should You Support Our Kickstarter Campaign To Add Music To Jane Austen's Desk?

Reason #3: It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday.
December 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Why Should You Support Our Kickstarter Campaign To Add Music To Jane Austen's Desk?

Reason #2: Jane Austen's Desk is for everyone!
December 26, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Why Should You Support Our Kickstarter Campaign To Add Music To Jane Austen's Desk?

Reason #1: Jane Austen loved music.
December 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Happy Birthday to Jane Austen, born 250 years ago today on 16th December 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire. In celebration, I’d love to hear which is your favourite book, or your favourite quote ❤️
#JaneAusten
December 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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🌜☁️
December 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Ay, it is a fine thing to be young and handsome. Well! I was young once, but I never was very handsome—worse luck for me.
#JaneAusten #SenseandSensibility
December 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Learn more about Jane Austen's Desk, our award-winning digital platform, and how you can support our Kickstarter campaign: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ZQ...

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An Introduction to Jane Austen's Desk
YouTube video by Jane Austen Summer Program
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December 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.
I wish there was more emphasis on access to education disentangled from employability and focusing instead on enrichment because people who engage with education (or have the ability to) as enrichment interact with it differently. (And that's a whole society thing, not an in-uni thing) 7/7
November 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Little lambs 💌
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Come join me in reading and learning about a whole range of women's writing in the long eighteenth century!

It's online, it's only $55 and it runs all year! It is an absolute steal.

(And yes, there will be Gothic! As well as plenty of other things)

regencyfictionwriters.org/academe/12-b...
12 Books Your Regency Heroine Should Read – Regency Fiction Writers
regencyfictionwriters.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to Wordsworth (Free Course)
Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to Wordsworth (Free Course)
Taught by William Flesch at Brandeis University, this course offers a survey of poetry that's out of favor. But it turns out to be among the most skillful, brilliant, witty, invigorating, funny, somet...
www.openculture.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”

the library bought it.

which in turn means that the community bought it.

In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.
November 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Dammit I love libraries. What an unbeatable institution and idea.
November 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Just a little reminder that you can travel the world with Romancing the Gothic!

Explore the supernatural, the Gothic, and the horrible in countries around the world with our talks map!

padlet.com/hollyhirst84...
Romancing the Gothic World Tour
Made with Padlet
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November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More
Watch 10 Great German Expressionist Films: Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & More
In 1913, Germany, flush with a new nation’s patriotic zeal, looked like it might become the dominant nation of Europe and a real rival to that global superpower Great Britain. Then it hit the buzzsaw ...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Seen as it looks like I won't have a main job for a while (and seen as I haven't been paid anything since September) if you'd like to support the work that I do through Romancing the Gothic, you can!

You can also buy courses (in case you didn't know!)

ko-fi.com/samhirst
Support Sam Hirst ❤️
Support Sam Hirst
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November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM