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Emma Butler-Marr
@19thcenturyem.bsky.social
PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts @ehunineteen.bsky.social ⛱️ | Jane Austen nerd and period drama enthusiast | Chronically ill with endometriosis & chronic pain💛 (she/her)
A visit to Winchester to finally say hi to Austen 🤍 of course had to buy the overly touristy Austen scarf, because I fear I'm the main target audience 🫡
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Jane Austen's house was a little dream come true ✨️ the best way to mark #janeausten250
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My grandad's favourite tea being in the cupboard of the flat is cute because I know he'd have been SO excited for me to be here...

Today's Chawton snippets (I'll stop doing this soon I promise but I still can't believe I'm here 🤣)
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
An excellent first proper day at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social ✨️ introduction to the reading room means an exciting start to the fellowship and a lovely chilly walk around the grounds this morning
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Had such fun sharing my spooky research today at the Spooky History conference! There is nothing spookier, after all, than being chronically ill 🤣

Also a fantastic paper from @ornamh.bsky.social too on the Paris Catacombs, so fascinating! ☠️
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My research into a review or advert for John Hartley's book Seets i' Blackpool has so far been fruitless, but I have found 3 seperate adverts of him talking about Veno's cough medicine... This might end up being the topic of my flash talk with @ehunineteen.bsky.social in December if all else fails 😂
October 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
My first BARS @bars.bsky.social conference at Trinity Hall College was absolutely wonderful! A lovely couple of days getting know other postgraduate and early career researchers, and listening to a variety of fascinating papers/panels

A huge thank you to the organisers ☺️ @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
After a lovely Sunday lunch in Bakewell found a Jane Austen shrine in the bathroom!! She follows me everywhere ✨️
August 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Despite the pain in my shoulder from the gas and the pain of the incisions, I've had no leg/hip/sciatic pain for the first time in two years (only talking 2 days here and on lots of pain meds so...) but normally nothing really helps much. If it's been a cyst all along that would explain a lot!
August 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Laparoscopy was rough yesterday. Very grateful to a specialist who excised all endometriosis found (and found a cyst on my right side!) Felt (and was) very sick afterwards and had very low blood pressure, so ended up spending nearly 12 hours in the hospital in total.

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August 5, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Vampires & chronic illness/endometriosis is my niche at this point (other than Austen) so this feels very me in one picture ✨️

Given my second laparoscopy is a week on Monday, I'm even more excited to read Endometriosis 💗
July 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Highlights of the holiday have been wearing pretty dresses and looking at a cathedral (and lying on a sunbed for a week 😎)
July 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My paper went SO well I think (I hope, I haven't been told otherwise 🤣)

It's been fun wearing some very snazzy outfits too, today's being a cosplay of Mr Knightley's strawberries
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reading Jane Austen on the way to Southampton for the Global Jane Austen conference feels very fitting (a bit annoyed at my project gutenberg epub for having the wrong Austen spelling but...) #globaljaneaustenconference #janeaustenjuly
July 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Happy Jane Austen July!! Kicked off the month making a YouTube video with @edgerat.bsky.social & chatting all things Austen!

I'm going to share my recommendations/reads on here throughout the month (if I remember!) And hoping to achieve all the prompts 🤞

It's like my Christmas ✨️
July 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Sat and read my kindle in the garden today - with factor 30 suncream on, under an parasol, listening to the neighbour's grandson screaming...

It looks nice anyway!
June 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Hospital cuppa and (slightly miserable) sandwich post-injection! Waited for 4 hours for it to take 5 minutes 🫡
June 7, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I have already yapped on Instagram about this however it deserves more love! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

It had everything I love in historical romance (YEARNING) & wlw Mary Bennet and Charlotte Lucas!

It felt really well immersed in the Georgian era! I'm so glad Mary Bennet is getting the spotlight
June 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Happy Pride Month! Here's a sonnet from Wordsworth being a (questionable?) ally - about the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby who were clearly just very 'good friends'...
June 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Celebrating with pink cava in pj bottoms with a goose 🪿
May 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Last time I was in center parcs I received my marks for my undergrad dissertation (thanks @rjdashwood.bsky.social!) and this time I've officially passed my PhD progression viva - how the time flies 🤭 (and both times have been during an endometriosis flare up 😮‍💨)

Having (one) celebratory drink!
May 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I am BEYOND excited to share that I will be the 2025 BARS visiting fellow at Chawton House this November. A huge thank you to @drbeard79.bsky.social for being my referee and supporting my application and to @chawtonhouse.bsky.social & @bars.bsky.social for the opportunity!
May 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Can officially add 'women's health advocate' to my CV now ✨️ (but endometriosis doesn't just affect women - includes all who were assigned female at birth, and also (cis) men need to know about it too!!) Happy early international women's day 💛
March 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Excited to be on the international women's day panel tomorrow in collaboration with the business school at EHU! I'll be talking all about my experiences with endometriosis and being a chronically ill student 💛

#internationalwomensday2025 #internationalwomensday #iwd
March 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Very excited to find out that I'll be presenting BARS PGR/ECR conference 'Romantic (Un)Conciousness' later this year in Cambridge!
Can't wait to talk all about Catherine Morland and Northanger Abbey. @bars.bsky.social

Big thank you to @drbeard79.bsky.social for the title inspiration 😂
February 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM