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Jen
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PhD student at the University of Lincoln. I love the weird and the Gothic.
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What if we kissed in the marginalia of the 1811 Justice of the Peace casebook?
November 21, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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“…causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours”. I gave my first full-length lecture on Monday at the University of Birmingham on the #Gothic module about M. R. James’s ghost stories 👻📖📚👩🏻‍🏫
November 20, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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Illustration of a performance by Flemish magician, huckster, and phantasmagoria pioneer Paul Phylidor (17??–1829), from a 1791 handbill. He claimed to be able to summon the dead but was reported to rely on projections, smoke machines, and mechanical devices. 🎃☠️
October 6, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Yes it is relevant to my research interests, why do you ask?
November 15, 2024 at 1:46 PM