Anna Girling
@annagirling.bsky.social
Teaching English at the University of Edinburgh. Generally reading, writing, day dreaming. Writing and thinking about Edith Wharton, Nancy Cunard, modernism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, cosmopolitanism, & other people and things like that.
Ahhhh! This is wonderful! Congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social!!
November 6, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Ahhhh! This is wonderful! Congratulations to @cdrose.bsky.social!!
Amongst all this, I feel like there is something about the relatively recent naming of individual storms coinciding with this shift in magnitude, frequency etc - encouraging us to think in terms of individual catastrophic events, rather than a catastrophic systemic change?
October 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Amongst all this, I feel like there is something about the relatively recent naming of individual storms coinciding with this shift in magnitude, frequency etc - encouraging us to think in terms of individual catastrophic events, rather than a catastrophic systemic change?
Amazing. When I did my Masters, the first text on our 1922/Modernism course (taught by the wonderful Lesley Higgins) was Whose Body?
October 14, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Amazing. When I did my Masters, the first text on our 1922/Modernism course (taught by the wonderful Lesley Higgins) was Whose Body?
PS @atarbuck.bsky.social have been reading Pink Witch - and loved your My Little Pony poem!!
October 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
PS @atarbuck.bsky.social have been reading Pink Witch - and loved your My Little Pony poem!!
oh no! Rivals was a seriously important book to me at a key teenage moment - it sustained me through the bleak grimness of Higher Physics, etc. (in a beloved copy that had belonged to my mother I think - and was later stolen by an awful person who ended up on Celebrity Big Brother!).
October 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
oh no! Rivals was a seriously important book to me at a key teenage moment - it sustained me through the bleak grimness of Higher Physics, etc. (in a beloved copy that had belonged to my mother I think - and was later stolen by an awful person who ended up on Celebrity Big Brother!).
Wonderful - lucky you!
October 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Wonderful - lucky you!