Dr Rita J. Dashwood
@rjdashwood.bsky.social
Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
So grateful to the wonderful people at Shibden Hall for showing me around and sharing their knowledge of Anne and the house during my visit 😊
(I highly recommend visiting it during Halloween 🎃 )
#shibdenhouse #annelister #halifax
(I highly recommend visiting it during Halloween 🎃 )
#shibdenhouse #annelister #halifax
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
So grateful to the wonderful people at Shibden Hall for showing me around and sharing their knowledge of Anne and the house during my visit 😊
(I highly recommend visiting it during Halloween 🎃 )
#shibdenhouse #annelister #halifax
(I highly recommend visiting it during Halloween 🎃 )
#shibdenhouse #annelister #halifax
Loved visiting Halifax during my research trip to see Shibden Hall and Anne Lister’s letters at West Yorkshire Archive Services as part of my project, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900, at Ghent University 😊
(And yes, I did get the fish soap 😁)
#annelister #shibdenhall #halifax
(And yes, I did get the fish soap 😁)
#annelister #shibdenhall #halifax
October 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Loved visiting Halifax during my research trip to see Shibden Hall and Anne Lister’s letters at West Yorkshire Archive Services as part of my project, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900, at Ghent University 😊
(And yes, I did get the fish soap 😁)
#annelister #shibdenhall #halifax
(And yes, I did get the fish soap 😁)
#annelister #shibdenhall #halifax
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Day 2 of #GlobalAusten250 and I mainly pretended to be @rjdashwood.bsky.social (in my drag persona of Regina Blitz), thinking about sexy memes and epistolary detective work
a man is sitting at a table with a bowl of boiled potatoes in front of him .
Alt: Tom Hollander’s Mr Collins is sitting at a table with a bowl of boiled potatoes in front of him .
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July 12, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Day 2 of #GlobalAusten250 and I mainly pretended to be @rjdashwood.bsky.social (in my drag persona of Regina Blitz), thinking about sexy memes and epistolary detective work
Day 2 of the #GlobalAusten250 Conference. The sea witch (aka hay fever) stole my voice, which means that @drbeard79.bsky.social delivered the drag show of a lifetime by reading my paper for me on my FWO-funded research. Had a great time listening to his own fabulous paper on Netflix’s Persuasion!
July 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Day 2 of the #GlobalAusten250 Conference. The sea witch (aka hay fever) stole my voice, which means that @drbeard79.bsky.social delivered the drag show of a lifetime by reading my paper for me on my FWO-funded research. Had a great time listening to his own fabulous paper on Netflix’s Persuasion!
A fabulous first day at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference in Southampton with some really great papers on Austen adaptations and tourism! The highlight for me was @devoney.bsky.social’s paper about the Pride and Prejudice adaptations that never were - can’t wait for her upcoming book, Wild for Austen!
July 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
A fabulous first day at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference in Southampton with some really great papers on Austen adaptations and tourism! The highlight for me was @devoney.bsky.social’s paper about the Pride and Prejudice adaptations that never were - can’t wait for her upcoming book, Wild for Austen!
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Welcoming everyone to #GlobalAusten250, Gillian Dow coins a GREAT collective noun: an intelligence of Austenians
July 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Welcoming everyone to #GlobalAusten250, Gillian Dow coins a GREAT collective noun: an intelligence of Austenians
In Southampton and excited to see everyone at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference tomorrow!
July 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
In Southampton and excited to see everyone at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference tomorrow!
So excited for this tomorrow!! 😊
Heading to the #GlobalAusten250 Conference at Southampton bright and early to meet these brilliant people and many more! (If you are too and want to be added to the starter pack let me know!)
July 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So excited for this tomorrow!! 😊
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Got £50 from Routledge today which *might* be profit on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous?
Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)?
You can buy / request it for your library here:
Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)?
You can buy / request it for your library here:
Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...
www.routledge.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Got £50 from Routledge today which *might* be profit on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous?
Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)?
You can buy / request it for your library here:
Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)?
You can buy / request it for your library here:
You co-write one article with @drbeard79.bsky.social about Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA. with the word ‘shark’ in the title and this is what happens 😂
May 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
You co-write one article with @drbeard79.bsky.social about Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA. with the word ‘shark’ in the title and this is what happens 😂
2 years ago I was in Brussels for my FWO interview 😊 Cut to right now and I’m halfway through my project at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900
(Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)
(Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)
May 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
2 years ago I was in Brussels for my FWO interview 😊 Cut to right now and I’m halfway through my project at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900
(Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)
(Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)
Reading the diaries of a nineteenth-century female estate owner where she writes that she lectured a female servant for getting married and “not being proclaimed.” Why would her mistress lecture her for not proclaiming her banns? Because something could have been found out about the groom? Curious🧐
May 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reading the diaries of a nineteenth-century female estate owner where she writes that she lectured a female servant for getting married and “not being proclaimed.” Why would her mistress lecture her for not proclaiming her banns? Because something could have been found out about the groom? Curious🧐
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Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this
May 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this
I had such a great time today watching @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island with my MA students as part of my Jane Austen in Popular Culture module 😊🏳️🌈 (Though it was a little disconcerting to realise, during one of my favourite scenes, that they had never listened to Britney Spears’s Sometimes!)
a close up of a woman 's face with a phone in her ear
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a phone in her ear
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May 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I had such a great time today watching @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island with my MA students as part of my Jane Austen in Popular Culture module 😊🏳️🌈 (Though it was a little disconcerting to realise, during one of my favourite scenes, that they had never listened to Britney Spears’s Sometimes!)
I was wondering if there are any academics here who have experience in producing both outputs for the general public and academic outputs out of a single research project, such as an academic monograph and a trade book. If so, please DM me, I would love to hear about how it can be done 🙂
April 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I was wondering if there are any academics here who have experience in producing both outputs for the general public and academic outputs out of a single research project, such as an academic monograph and a trade book. If so, please DM me, I would love to hear about how it can be done 🙂
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Howdy, y'all! 🤠 I have a new article just out in @jofvictculture.bsky.social - If you want to read about Doc Holliday, L.T Meade, & Victorian discourses of Tuberculosis & Murder then check it out here: academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...
You're a daisy of you do! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
You're a daisy of you do! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
April 1, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Howdy, y'all! 🤠 I have a new article just out in @jofvictculture.bsky.social - If you want to read about Doc Holliday, L.T Meade, & Victorian discourses of Tuberculosis & Murder then check it out here: academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...
You're a daisy of you do! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
You're a daisy of you do! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
Now that the birthday of the person this was a gift for has passed, I can share the gorgeous commission that my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social made for me 🤩
January 16, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Now that the birthday of the person this was a gift for has passed, I can share the gorgeous commission that my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social made for me 🤩
I missed @BSECS last year, so I'm even more excited to be making my way to Oxford today for this year's conference. I will be presenting on Wednesday on Mary Verney’s inheritance of Claydon House, as part of my research for my Heiress project at Ghent. Looking forward to seeing everyone! #BSECS2025
January 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I missed @BSECS last year, so I'm even more excited to be making my way to Oxford today for this year's conference. I will be presenting on Wednesday on Mary Verney’s inheritance of Claydon House, as part of my research for my Heiress project at Ghent. Looking forward to seeing everyone! #BSECS2025
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Finally, the only academic book of the list: ‘Reading the Romantic Ridiculous’ by @drbeard79.bsky.social and @rjdashwood.bsky.social! It was so lovely to read the culmination of a project that was quite instrumental in getting me really into Romanticism 🥰
December 31, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Finally, the only academic book of the list: ‘Reading the Romantic Ridiculous’ by @drbeard79.bsky.social and @rjdashwood.bsky.social! It was so lovely to read the culmination of a project that was quite instrumental in getting me really into Romanticism 🥰
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My 2024 reading wrap-up/top 10! A thread!
December 31, 2024 at 8:33 PM
My 2024 reading wrap-up/top 10! A thread!
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I wrote a book! With the wonderful @rjdashwood.bsky.social! Even after this came out, I found myself defaulting to ‘what have I achieved this year? Nothing and again nothing’. Ridiculous!
Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ri...
www.routledge.com
December 31, 2024 at 8:20 AM
I wrote a book! With the wonderful @rjdashwood.bsky.social! Even after this came out, I found myself defaulting to ‘what have I achieved this year? Nothing and again nothing’. Ridiculous!
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Fire Island titbit (only slightly making me want to rewrite our article on Noah and Howie as Lizzy and Jane to incorporate fresh info)!!!
Wow so so honored. I loved reading this!! The one tid bit I have never really talked about that only a few people have picked up is that Howie is Jane, but a lot of Charlotte’s arc is also built into him as well. The rice queen character was our Mr. Collins, but a lot of it was cut.
December 17, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Fire Island titbit (only slightly making me want to rewrite our article on Noah and Howie as Lizzy and Jane to incorporate fresh info)!!!
@ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island has been my favourite reimagining of a Jane Austen novel since @drbeard79.bsky.social first introduced me to it, and we were filled with love for this movie when we wrote this, now out on Austen’s own birthday! 🎁
www.jasna.org/publications...
www.jasna.org/publications...
Adapting Jane Austen’s “Hetero Nonsense” in Andrew Ahn and Joel Kim Booster’s Fire Island
www.jasna.org
December 17, 2024 at 1:06 AM
@ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island has been my favourite reimagining of a Jane Austen novel since @drbeard79.bsky.social first introduced me to it, and we were filled with love for this movie when we wrote this, now out on Austen’s own birthday! 🎁
www.jasna.org/publications...
www.jasna.org/publications...
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We wrote ‘Adapting Jane Austen’s “Hetero Nonsense”…’ with love in our hearts for @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social and his Fire Island and hope he loves the resulting article!
Adapting Jane Austen’s “Hetero Nonsense” in Andrew Ahn and Joel Kim Booster’s Fire Island
www.jasna.org
December 16, 2024 at 8:18 AM
We wrote ‘Adapting Jane Austen’s “Hetero Nonsense”…’ with love in our hearts for @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social and his Fire Island and hope he loves the resulting article!