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
Hard pass, I’m afraid.
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Hard pass, I’m afraid.
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
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
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
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?!
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.
How does your garden grow?
June 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
How does your garden grow?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single flan must be in want of a knife.” When my two worlds, #JaneAusten and #GBBO, collide!
May 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single flan must be in want of a knife.” When my two worlds, #JaneAusten and #GBBO, collide!
Channeling my inner Emma Woodhouse to share Bloomsbury’s flyer for Jane Austen in 50 Words. In one of my favorite letters to her niece Fanny, Austen wrote, “I shall not plague you with any particulars. The pleasures of vanity are more within your comprehension , and you will enter into mine…”.
May 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Channeling my inner Emma Woodhouse to share Bloomsbury’s flyer for Jane Austen in 50 Words. In one of my favorite letters to her niece Fanny, Austen wrote, “I shall not plague you with any particulars. The pleasures of vanity are more within your comprehension , and you will enter into mine…”.
Might have to use this the next time I teach parody. Pitch perfect. Sad!
May 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Might have to use this the next time I teach parody. Pitch perfect. Sad!
The vulture chick who would be king. This Bronx Zoo baby is EVERYTHING.
May 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The vulture chick who would be king. This Bronx Zoo baby is EVERYTHING.
Crystal clear to me that Canada elected the right man.
April 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Crystal clear to me that Canada elected the right man.
“We will see that life is radiant and beautiful and dignified and we’ll look back on these unhappy moments and we’ll feel nothing but compassion….We shall rest.” Hugh Bonneville was wonderful in the title role of Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya,” but it was Melanie Field as Sonya who grabbed my heart.
April 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
“We will see that life is radiant and beautiful and dignified and we’ll look back on these unhappy moments and we’ll feel nothing but compassion….We shall rest.” Hugh Bonneville was wonderful in the title role of Chekov’s “Uncle Vanya,” but it was Melanie Field as Sonya who grabbed my heart.
I always feel afraid to teach Parable of the Sower, thinking I don’t have the proper expertise. Then the novel works its magic and students who have been quiet all semester have so much to say and report conversations they started after calling their parents to talk about it. TY Octavia Butler.
April 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I always feel afraid to teach Parable of the Sower, thinking I don’t have the proper expertise. Then the novel works its magic and students who have been quiet all semester have so much to say and report conversations they started after calling their parents to talk about it. TY Octavia Butler.
On the third day Chelsea rose again, according to the scriptures. (I so want a White Lotus Easter Special this year).
April 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
On the third day Chelsea rose again, according to the scriptures. (I so want a White Lotus Easter Special this year).
It’s a wander lonely as a cloud kinda day.
March 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It’s a wander lonely as a cloud kinda day.
I would prefer to partner with, not punish, Canada. How fortunate Canadians are to have a measured professional leading them. So many in this nation have been taken hostage by thin-skinned, vengeful Trump and his fellow traitors.
March 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I would prefer to partner with, not punish, Canada. How fortunate Canadians are to have a measured professional leading them. So many in this nation have been taken hostage by thin-skinned, vengeful Trump and his fellow traitors.
I fell in love with Gene Hackman when watching The Poseidon Adventure as a young girl. I didn’t know the word or idea of “sexy” yet. But sexy became understood as “Gene Hackman.”
February 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I fell in love with Gene Hackman when watching The Poseidon Adventure as a young girl. I didn’t know the word or idea of “sexy” yet. But sexy became understood as “Gene Hackman.”
Portrait of Russell Means, born Porcupine, painted long after Wounded Knee.
February 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Portrait of Russell Means, born Porcupine, painted long after Wounded Knee.
Just another American cheering on Canada after its big win last night. Feel certain that last year I wouldn’t have noticed as I’m not a sports fan. So much has changed.
February 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just another American cheering on Canada after its big win last night. Feel certain that last year I wouldn’t have noticed as I’m not a sports fan. So much has changed.