Dr Emma Probett
@emmaprobett.bsky.social
PhD in Victorian Studies. Currently writing a book about Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the novel of manners. They/Them
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I need new podcasts! Bonus points if anyone manages to find one dedicated to Elizabeth Gaskell
August 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I need new podcasts! Bonus points if anyone manages to find one dedicated to Elizabeth Gaskell
What's a siege got to do with Dracula? Everything. Siege's usually involve and end when the food and water run out and people are forced into survival cannibalism!
August 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What's a siege got to do with Dracula? Everything. Siege's usually involve and end when the food and water run out and people are forced into survival cannibalism!
The ventilated corset, a solution to tropical living for the Victorian lady www.instagram.com/reel/DNBII_8...
August 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The ventilated corset, a solution to tropical living for the Victorian lady www.instagram.com/reel/DNBII_8...
Fashion icon, Miss Matty 💅
August 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fashion icon, Miss Matty 💅
Throwback podcast short from August 2024! www.instagram.com/p/DM70PezN9Il/
Is Emma Woodhouse a bicon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?
Is Emma Woodhouse a bicon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?
August 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Throwback podcast short from August 2024! www.instagram.com/p/DM70PezN9Il/
Is Emma Woodhouse a bicon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?
Is Emma Woodhouse a bicon? Is she giving Edmund Bertram vibes with Harriet Smith? Or are Emma and Harriet just fairweather gal pals?
They're both bad, but who's worse?
♥️⬇️ to vote
♥️⬇️ to vote
July 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They're both bad, but who's worse?
♥️⬇️ to vote
♥️⬇️ to vote
A podcast throwback from July 2024! Inspired by some of the feedback that Oxford World Classics got as part of its 'Guess the title' for Women's History Month that year.
July 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A podcast throwback from July 2024! Inspired by some of the feedback that Oxford World Classics got as part of its 'Guess the title' for Women's History Month that year.
My summer in Southampton included: walking the Jane Austen trail, a flying visit to Tudor House and Gardens, touring the Titanic exhibition at SeaCity, hiking through the Royal Country Park to see the famous Victorian Hospital that Arthur Conan Doyle's Dr Watson attended.
July 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My summer in Southampton included: walking the Jane Austen trail, a flying visit to Tudor House and Gardens, touring the Titanic exhibition at SeaCity, hiking through the Royal Country Park to see the famous Victorian Hospital that Arthur Conan Doyle's Dr Watson attended.
#otd in 1884 Richard Parker, a 17-year-old cabin boy was killed so the remaining crew of the shipwrecked Mignonette could survive on his blood and body.
The crew had been at sea in an open boat for 20 days with only two tins of dry turnips, one turtle, and no fresh water.
The crew had been at sea in an open boat for 20 days with only two tins of dry turnips, one turtle, and no fresh water.
July 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#otd in 1884 Richard Parker, a 17-year-old cabin boy was killed so the remaining crew of the shipwrecked Mignonette could survive on his blood and body.
The crew had been at sea in an open boat for 20 days with only two tins of dry turnips, one turtle, and no fresh water.
The crew had been at sea in an open boat for 20 days with only two tins of dry turnips, one turtle, and no fresh water.
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Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
What's your favourite Mansfield Park adaptation?
July 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
What's your favourite Mansfield Park adaptation?
It's now under two weeks until the event of the summer kicks off ☀️
If you're coming to the Global Austen conference I'd love to know so I'll be able to recognise some friendly faces!
#globalausten2025 #janeausten #janeaustenconference
If you're coming to the Global Austen conference I'd love to know so I'll be able to recognise some friendly faces!
#globalausten2025 #janeausten #janeaustenconference
June 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
It's now under two weeks until the event of the summer kicks off ☀️
If you're coming to the Global Austen conference I'd love to know so I'll be able to recognise some friendly faces!
#globalausten2025 #janeausten #janeaustenconference
If you're coming to the Global Austen conference I'd love to know so I'll be able to recognise some friendly faces!
#globalausten2025 #janeausten #janeaustenconference
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This is so exciting! Who’d have thunk that little web series of ours would still be of interest 10 years later!
Have you ever heard of From Mansfield With Love?
Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!
Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!
June 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This is so exciting! Who’d have thunk that little web series of ours would still be of interest 10 years later!
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Having amassed, last year, examples of bugs in 📚s, I'm sticking with my theme of volatilia, but now collecting examples of feathers in 📚s. Here's one (a real one!), intended for an album, from the John Johnson collection of ephemera at the Bodleian. I love it! If you have any, will you share pls?
June 26, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Having amassed, last year, examples of bugs in 📚s, I'm sticking with my theme of volatilia, but now collecting examples of feathers in 📚s. Here's one (a real one!), intended for an album, from the John Johnson collection of ephemera at the Bodleian. I love it! If you have any, will you share pls?
Have you ever heard of From Mansfield With Love?
Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!
Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!
June 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Have you ever heard of From Mansfield With Love?
Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!
Running from 2014 to 2015, FMWL is the vlog style adaptation of Austen's Mansfield Park, and just like its source material, it's beautiful, engaging, and criminally underrated!
Possibly the most aesthetic edition of Mansfield Park I own 🌹
June 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Possibly the most aesthetic edition of Mansfield Park I own 🌹
#OTD in 1743 Anna Laetitia Barbauld was born. She was a renowned poet, children's author, shrewd editor, and an insightful essayist.
Here are some of my very favourite quotes from 'On the Origins and Progress of Novel-Writing' a preface to the British Novelists (1810).
Here are some of my very favourite quotes from 'On the Origins and Progress of Novel-Writing' a preface to the British Novelists (1810).
June 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
#OTD in 1743 Anna Laetitia Barbauld was born. She was a renowned poet, children's author, shrewd editor, and an insightful essayist.
Here are some of my very favourite quotes from 'On the Origins and Progress of Novel-Writing' a preface to the British Novelists (1810).
Here are some of my very favourite quotes from 'On the Origins and Progress of Novel-Writing' a preface to the British Novelists (1810).
The perfect view for writing the next section of my Dracula article ✍️ how claiming the earth can be a mark of power
April 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The perfect view for writing the next section of my Dracula article ✍️ how claiming the earth can be a mark of power
Rereading Hallie Rubenhold's The Five yet again! 5⭐
April 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Rereading Hallie Rubenhold's The Five yet again! 5⭐
Brian Simpson's Common Law and Cannibalism has some excellent sketches added in on Regina versus Dudley and Stephens case. A fantastically useful book that's unfortunately out of print.
April 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Brian Simpson's Common Law and Cannibalism has some excellent sketches added in on Regina versus Dudley and Stephens case. A fantastically useful book that's unfortunately out of print.
Late April Fools Day soy sauce in yesterday's food delivery 🎅
April 6, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Late April Fools Day soy sauce in yesterday's food delivery 🎅
The worst has happened. Two pages into a book and it hits me with "since this study is not intended as a law book or designed primarily for professional scholars, I have not encumbered the pages with footnotes." 😱
March 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The worst has happened. Two pages into a book and it hits me with "since this study is not intended as a law book or designed primarily for professional scholars, I have not encumbered the pages with footnotes." 😱
Early Easter treats from the local bakery! 🐣
March 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Early Easter treats from the local bakery! 🐣
Time for a break in nature, less survival cannibalism but a little woodland gothic
March 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Time for a break in nature, less survival cannibalism but a little woodland gothic