Maria Frawley
@mariafrawley.bsky.social
Teacher, environmentalist, animal caretaker, library lover, GBBO watcher. My book, Jane Austen in 50 Words, out this fall: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/jane-austen-in-50-words-9781350528222/
I hope I’ve made Paul Hollywood proud with first ever cherry Bakewell frangipane tart. Pictured above my Jane Austen tea towel to affirm my Anglophilia. #GBBO #Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I hope I’ve made Paul Hollywood proud with first ever cherry Bakewell frangipane tart. Pictured above my Jane Austen tea towel to affirm my Anglophilia. #GBBO #Thanksgiving
Immediate brought to mind Gerard Manly Hopkins’ “Inversnaid,” with the lines, What would the world be, once bereft/ Of wet and wildness? Let them be left”
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Immediate brought to mind Gerard Manly Hopkins’ “Inversnaid,” with the lines, What would the world be, once bereft/ Of wet and wildness? Let them be left”
Hard pass, I’m afraid.
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Hard pass, I’m afraid.
I find it so delightfully ironic when Dickens has a character preface any remark with “in short.” Um, no, nothing at all short to follow. Many, many words. Reading #BleakHouse. #booksky #Dickens
November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I find it so delightfully ironic when Dickens has a character preface any remark with “in short.” Um, no, nothing at all short to follow. Many, many words. Reading #BleakHouse. #booksky #Dickens
So Jane Austen! @newyorker.com cartoon by Eric Clausen.
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So Jane Austen! @newyorker.com cartoon by Eric Clausen.
The joy of finally holding my new book! Unboxed at the Jane Austen Society of North America annual AGM — I am all gratitude, as Austen might say! #booksky #JaneAusten
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The joy of finally holding my new book! Unboxed at the Jane Austen Society of North America annual AGM — I am all gratitude, as Austen might say! #booksky #JaneAusten
Such a fabulous talk on Jane Austen’s genius and the joys and challenges of literary detective work by the always inspiring Juliette Wells. Perfect keynote choice! #JASNAAGM #JaneAusten
October 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Such a fabulous talk on Jane Austen’s genius and the joys and challenges of literary detective work by the always inspiring Juliette Wells. Perfect keynote choice! #JASNAAGM #JaneAusten
Excited about the first talk I’ll give after my book is published next month. At a lovely vineyard in Virginia, where guests can sip the wine while I delight them with gems of wisdom about Jane Austen’s way with words! What could go wrong? #JaneAusten #booksky
September 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Excited about the first talk I’ll give after my book is published next month. At a lovely vineyard in Virginia, where guests can sip the wine while I delight them with gems of wisdom about Jane Austen’s way with words! What could go wrong? #JaneAusten #booksky
And of all this I might have been mistress (if everything in my life had been completely different) #JaneAusten www.facebook.com/share/r/1BQL...
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September 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
And of all this I might have been mistress (if everything in my life had been completely different) #JaneAusten www.facebook.com/share/r/1BQL...
“…the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle …”. Another day, another bit of Jane Austen wisdom, this from Persuasion. #booksky #JaneAusten
September 8, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“…the art of knowing our own nothingness beyond our own circle …”. Another day, another bit of Jane Austen wisdom, this from Persuasion. #booksky #JaneAusten
“Worn by Earring Magic Ken” — officially my last straw with NYTimes Connections.
September 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Worn by Earring Magic Ken” — officially my last straw with NYTimes Connections.
The best part of a summer highjacked by a broken arm has been a slow reread of Bleak House — first time in years. I want another cat so I can name him Mr. Snagsby. Dickens would have had a heyday with public figures like the odious Caroline Leavett. #booksky #books #amreading #Dickens
August 22, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The best part of a summer highjacked by a broken arm has been a slow reread of Bleak House — first time in years. I want another cat so I can name him Mr. Snagsby. Dickens would have had a heyday with public figures like the odious Caroline Leavett. #booksky #books #amreading #Dickens
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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Baby reveal! It has taken a very long time for two clippings from a Christmas cactus to root, but today they announced their baby! Welcome to the world, wee one.
July 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Baby reveal! It has taken a very long time for two clippings from a Christmas cactus to root, but today they announced their baby! Welcome to the world, wee one.
I may be stuck at home in a cast this summer, but some advance copies of my book made it to the Global Jane Austen conference in Southampton! Woohoo! #JaneAusten #booksky
July 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I may be stuck at home in a cast this summer, but some advance copies of my book made it to the Global Jane Austen conference in Southampton! Woohoo! #JaneAusten #booksky
Same! Looking for more assignment ideas, so fellow teachers who aren’t getting on the “let’s develop ways to use AI” bandwagon, please share! I am NOT going gently into the AI night…
I ordered a lot of index cards today (that I also paid for) because we’re going to be doing more short in-class writing this fall instead of some of the exercises they used to do on their own time (and turned in on line).
Nobody learns from the ways they’re increasingly using AI - not them, not me.
Nobody learns from the ways they’re increasingly using AI - not them, not me.
July 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Same! Looking for more assignment ideas, so fellow teachers who aren’t getting on the “let’s develop ways to use AI” bandwagon, please share! I am NOT going gently into the AI night…
“I think, after all, I like a clean kitchen better than any other room.” (Letter to Sara Hennell, 1863). Turns out I like mundane George Eliot as much as brilliant and wise George Eliot. #GeorgeEliot #booksky
July 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
“I think, after all, I like a clean kitchen better than any other room.” (Letter to Sara Hennell, 1863). Turns out I like mundane George Eliot as much as brilliant and wise George Eliot. #GeorgeEliot #booksky
Grasping for straws for things to feel good about these days! But I submit this photo, which my daughter just sent from Edinburgh, where she is on vacation. I clearly raised her well, no?!
July 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Grasping for straws for things to feel good about these days! But I submit this photo, which my daughter just sent from Edinburgh, where she is on vacation. I clearly raised her well, no?!
“The bustling towns and stately homes wouldn’t function without these women.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/07/beyond-the-bonnets-jane-austens-working-women-exhibition-hampshire.”
July 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“The bustling towns and stately homes wouldn’t function without these women.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
“Austen gives us the seemingly real aspirations of women who must create and script better lives for themselves. We recognize , as readers, that we can do the same…”
hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
Jane Austen lives on
As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular today than ever before.
hub.jhu.edu
July 2, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“Austen gives us the seemingly real aspirations of women who must create and script better lives for themselves. We recognize , as readers, that we can do the same…”
hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
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Helen Poremba, UK textile artist who creates free-motion embroidery with range of recycled fabrics #WomensArt
June 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Helen Poremba, UK textile artist who creates free-motion embroidery with range of recycled fabrics #WomensArt
Huge crowd @politicsprose.bsky.social in DC tonight for the always brilliant (and charming) @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. I can’t wait to teach Is A River Alive?, inspiring and challenging and mind and heart bending (like a river) at once.
June 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Huge crowd @politicsprose.bsky.social in DC tonight for the always brilliant (and charming) @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. I can’t wait to teach Is A River Alive?, inspiring and challenging and mind and heart bending (like a river) at once.
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Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
June 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart
“I am a weary, aweary.” I don’t quite “would that I were dead” but honestly one too many chat gpt produced student papers today has gotten to me. (Apologies to Tennyson)
June 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“I am a weary, aweary.” I don’t quite “would that I were dead” but honestly one too many chat gpt produced student papers today has gotten to me. (Apologies to Tennyson)
How does your garden grow?
June 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
How does your garden grow?