Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️
@megandanielle.bsky.social
PhD researcher studying class and alcohol in 18th and 19th cent. literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque🪡
‘Everyday, give yourself a present’. The Twin Peaks cross stitch is DONE!! ✨🫶🏻
October 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
‘Everyday, give yourself a present’. The Twin Peaks cross stitch is DONE!! ✨🫶🏻
My poem ‘Desiderium’ is in the recent issue of Twisted Ink! Read it (and everyone else’s lovely work) here >> twistedinks.wordpress.com ✨🫶🏻
August 6, 2025 at 8:52 AM
My poem ‘Desiderium’ is in the recent issue of Twisted Ink! Read it (and everyone else’s lovely work) here >> twistedinks.wordpress.com ✨🫶🏻
Went to the National Museum of Scotland and just had to take some time appreciating all the Jacobite drinking glasses 🍷🍷
July 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Went to the National Museum of Scotland and just had to take some time appreciating all the Jacobite drinking glasses 🍷🍷
Had a fantastic time at my first @defoesociety.bsky.social conference! I presented my research on drink, class, and narrative in Fielding and Defoe 🍻 Big thanks to @nick-seager.bsky.social for organising & the board who awarded me the John Richetti Student Bursary to enable me to go 🫶🏻
July 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Had a fantastic time at my first @defoesociety.bsky.social conference! I presented my research on drink, class, and narrative in Fielding and Defoe 🍻 Big thanks to @nick-seager.bsky.social for organising & the board who awarded me the John Richetti Student Bursary to enable me to go 🫶🏻
Had a great couple days attending the Drinking Studies Network’s Women and Alcohol Cluster’s #dangerouspleasure conference in Dublin 🍻 some great discussions from a range of disciplines and I got to present my own research on the Georgian pub landlady in art and literature!
June 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Had a great couple days attending the Drinking Studies Network’s Women and Alcohol Cluster’s #dangerouspleasure conference in Dublin 🍻 some great discussions from a range of disciplines and I got to present my own research on the Georgian pub landlady in art and literature!
In true drinking studies fashion, I’m ending today at the University Arms after a jam-packed workshop talking about publishing ✨ Organised with my fellow PGRs on behalf of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social Grateful for everyone who came and who spoke 🫶🏻
June 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In true drinking studies fashion, I’m ending today at the University Arms after a jam-packed workshop talking about publishing ✨ Organised with my fellow PGRs on behalf of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies at @uos-artshumanities.bsky.social Grateful for everyone who came and who spoke 🫶🏻
A great day attending and presenting my research on Margaret Harkness at today’s Sheffield PGR Colloquium on Archive and Preservation!
May 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A great day attending and presenting my research on Margaret Harkness at today’s Sheffield PGR Colloquium on Archive and Preservation!
Took grandad to Old Trafford as an early bday present ❤️❤️
May 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Took grandad to Old Trafford as an early bday present ❤️❤️
My 18thC reading does sometimes make my reading tracker a tad bit skewiff
May 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
My 18thC reading does sometimes make my reading tracker a tad bit skewiff
a very book-ish day exploring london (managed 13 bookshops!!!!)
April 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
a very book-ish day exploring london (managed 13 bookshops!!!!)
cable leaf jumper finished 🍃🧶
April 13, 2025 at 6:44 PM
cable leaf jumper finished 🍃🧶
living the retired lifestyle by spending all day looking forward to my tea package and spending the night knitting a jumper 😎😎
April 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
living the retired lifestyle by spending all day looking forward to my tea package and spending the night knitting a jumper 😎😎
my plans- get the second sleeve of this leafy jumper done (i hate sleeves 😠😠
March 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
my plans- get the second sleeve of this leafy jumper done (i hate sleeves 😠😠
I don’t know if anyone here loves Labyrinth as much as I do but finally finished this massive (18” x 15”!) cross stitch 🪡 it makes my collection of Labyrinth cross stitches a grand total of 3 ✨✨
March 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I don’t know if anyone here loves Labyrinth as much as I do but finally finished this massive (18” x 15”!) cross stitch 🪡 it makes my collection of Labyrinth cross stitches a grand total of 3 ✨✨
On my desk these last few days (and for the foreseeable) are these 2 very well-loved editions of Fielding
March 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
On my desk these last few days (and for the foreseeable) are these 2 very well-loved editions of Fielding
early morning train journeys to campus means 45 mins uninterrupted time so I got to finish the edging on my ghostie bookmark 🪡👻
February 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
early morning train journeys to campus means 45 mins uninterrupted time so I got to finish the edging on my ghostie bookmark 🪡👻
Been making my way through the Greater Manchester Ringway. I have now completed Stage 7: Marple to Broadbottom which, being from Tameside, I sometimes forget some of the views I can get just down (or up) the road from me ✨
January 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Been making my way through the Greater Manchester Ringway. I have now completed Stage 7: Marple to Broadbottom which, being from Tameside, I sometimes forget some of the views I can get just down (or up) the road from me ✨
currently reading Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form & Emptiness ✨
January 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
currently reading Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form & Emptiness ✨
at least the 5 stars are a bit more exciting ✨
December 27, 2024 at 3:12 PM
at least the 5 stars are a bit more exciting ✨
thinking about the last couple of weeks of my first semester as a PhD student ✨ I graduated from my MA!!! Cried very real (happy) tears, and continued my studies of alcohol, class, and Henry Fielding. This passage from A. E. Richardson’s The Old Inns of England felt very fitting 90 years later 🫶🏻
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 AM
thinking about the last couple of weeks of my first semester as a PhD student ✨ I graduated from my MA!!! Cried very real (happy) tears, and continued my studies of alcohol, class, and Henry Fielding. This passage from A. E. Richardson’s The Old Inns of England felt very fitting 90 years later 🫶🏻
the christmas finishes are in full swing 🎄
December 7, 2024 at 4:48 PM
the christmas finishes are in full swing 🎄
Realised I posted once about my recent reads and then never again so here’s my goodreads recents (currently reading Fieldings Amelia and Iris Murdochs The Bell)
December 7, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Realised I posted once about my recent reads and then never again so here’s my goodreads recents (currently reading Fieldings Amelia and Iris Murdochs The Bell)
book pouches 📚
December 3, 2024 at 9:10 AM
book pouches 📚
very happy with how this pouch turned out… now time to make a million more
November 4, 2024 at 8:51 PM
very happy with how this pouch turned out… now time to make a million more
phd mood board ✨
October 26, 2024 at 9:32 PM
phd mood board ✨