GO GO GO!! watery dis/utopia from the amazingly talented (and wonderful) @lindzmcleod.bsky.social Can't wait for our haunted shores reading group session on this too 🤭

Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now!@lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 23h ago

I'm so excited to announce that you can now pre-order WE, THE DROWNING from pretty much all retailers! Barnes & Noble Bookshop.org Walmart Waterstones (UK) Morawa (Austria) Bol.com (Belgium/Netherlands) Booktopia (Australia) Lehmann's (Germany) yes24.com (S. Korea) and more in the next post!

Kitty and Mary was a delightful continuation of Pride and Prejudice, with each of the remaining Bennet sisters having a very sweet HEA in their own ways! Told through letters and diaries, I thought it held up against The Other Bennet Sister really well (and yay for a queer & seafaring Mary!)

Call for Applications: The BARS Open Fellowship 2027 The Open Fellowship is available to scholars at any career stage undertaking exceptional work at the forefront of Romantic studies to support research expenses of up to £2000. Closes: Friday 6 November 2026. Info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6598

New CFP! We're delighted to invite abstracts for the next Haunted Shores conference: Beyond the Blue Planet: Outer Space, Inner Space, and Extraterrestrial Oceans – online 2 April 2027 Please share with anyone who might be interested! Thank you! Full info: haunted-shores.com/beyond-the-b...

Beyond the Blue Planet: Haunted Shores 2027

Join us for the next Haunted Shores conference! Beyond the Blue Planet: Outer Space, Inner Space, and Extraterrestrial Oceans Online: 2 April 2027 (Double, a crater in the Moon’s Sea of Tranquility…

haunted-shores.com

Want something fun (and free) to do during #sapphicseptember ??? Join us for what I'm sure will be an amazing night!! Sapphic regency romance, and two Austen continuations? What more could you want 🤔👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 @lindzmcleod.bsky.social and Erin's books are amazing, and I'm sooo excited to host 💜

Emma Butler-Marr@19thcenturyem.bsky.social · 2w ago

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social and I have been planning an event! Wednesday 16th September 2026 - 6pm BST Along with Erin Edwards, we're talking queer Austen sequels & Miss Darcy's sapphic HEA! Tickets are free (unless you'd like a signed book!) Link to sign up here 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/queering-g...

#CFP for one-day workshop/symposium on Health, Welfare, and Mutual Support in Maritime Communities, 1550-1850 #medhums www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...

Call for Papers: Health, Welfare, and Mutual Support in Maritime Communities, 1550 – 1850

A one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum, focusing on the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history

rmg.co.uk

Join Lindz, Erin & I in conversation about their Pride and Prejudice sequels/continuations focusing on Georgiana Darcy (and her sapphic happy ever afters!) 2 of the best books I've read this year (Lindz's Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet is one of my favourites of all time!) It's going to be fab 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now!@lindzmcleod.bsky.social · last wk.

Join us online on Wednesday 16th September 2026 at 6pm BST to hear Erin Edwards and I talk about our sapphic Georgiana Darcy books! ❤️ And if you'd like a signed copy of Unruly Heart or Miseducation delivered anywhere in the world, then now's your chance to grab one before stocks run out!

In case you like to be ahead of the curve, I might drop a sneaky clue or two about what's coming next... 👀 Join us at this free online event!

Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now!@lindzmcleod.bsky.social · last wk.

Join us online on Wednesday 16th September 2026 at 6pm BST to hear Erin Edwards and I talk about our sapphic Georgiana Darcy books! ❤️ And if you'd like a signed copy of Unruly Heart or Miseducation delivered anywhere in the world, then now's your chance to grab one before stocks run out!

Happy birthday to Mary Shelley, born on this day in 1797 📕 At 18, she began writing Frankenstein, helping to invent a whole genre and giving us one of literature’s most iconic monsters. Not a bad legacy.

One of the best things about being Comms Officer for BARS is working alongside a wonderful Communications Fellow!! If you're interested in helping me run the BARS Blog and social media feeds for the next academic year (and receive a stipend for doing so!!!), please check out the link below ⤵️

British Association for Romantic Studies@bars.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572

So excited to be chaired by the fabulous @19thcenturyem.bsky.social too!

Join us online on Wednesday 16th September 2026 at 6pm BST to hear Erin Edwards and I talk about our sapphic Georgiana Darcy books! ❤️ And if you'd like a signed copy of Unruly Heart or Miseducation delivered anywhere in the world, then now's your chance to grab one before stocks run out!

Queering Georgiana Darcy: Lindz McLeod and Erin Edwards

Shining the spotlight on a beloved Jane Austen character and her sapphic lovers, chaired by Emma Butler-Marr.

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CFP for the Brontes and the Supernatural symposium for next September in Haworth - deadline New Year’s Eve

Haunt me, then! - The Brontës and the Supernatural Symposium | The Brontë Parsonage Museum

CALL FOR PAPERSThe Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2027 special exhibition will focus on the Brontës’ fascination with the supernatural, and we invite proposals

bronte.org.uk

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

How have I only just found out due to her passing that Dolly Parton had endometriosis? A brilliantly generous and inspiring woman, and now one I can relate to on a (semi) personal level. A legend indeed

OXFORD UNI STAFF & STUDENTS!!! Oxford has officially implemented the transphobic EHRC Code of Practice. PLEASE sign this open letter to commit to resisting it and supporting your trans colleagues, students, and peers. And please also share with Oxford acquaintances! www.oulgbtq.org/open-letter....

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton both demonstrated how gender is a social construct. RIP legends

Lawks a lumme! A permanent literary studies job in the UK! In British Romantic literature! ‘Earth has not anything to show more fair’!

Deirdre Flynn@deirdreflynn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Lecturer in British Romantic Literature University of Glasgow Full time permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS069/l...

Charles Dickens: ok, so there’s this orphan Editor: we’ve done this one Dickens: but *this* orphan suffers terribly from being poor Editor: sure Dickens: but here’s the catch Editor: (*leans forward) Dickens: he’s. actually. RICH! Editor: good god, magnificent!

emo boulangerie called "life is pain" i find this incredibly funny, but i suspect i'm alone in that

Burned my legs through my jeans in the sun, but it was worth it to watch Pride and Prejudice on a big outdoor cinema screen ☀️

I’ve had so much fun in this role!!! It’s been such a lovely way to feel more involved in the Romanticist community (and Amy is a wonderful Comms Officer) <33

British Association for Romantic Studies@bars.bsky.social · 2w ago

🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572

🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572

SO EXCITED for this online event! If you love Georgiana Darcy like we do, here's your chance to ask us burning questions and grab a signed copy of one of our books (while tickets last)!

Emma Butler-Marr@19thcenturyem.bsky.social · 2w ago

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social and I have been planning an event! Wednesday 16th September 2026 - 6pm BST Along with Erin Edwards, we're talking queer Austen sequels & Miss Darcy's sapphic HEA! Tickets are free (unless you'd like a signed book!) Link to sign up here 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/queering-g...

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social and I have been planning an event! Wednesday 16th September 2026 - 6pm BST Along with Erin Edwards, we're talking queer Austen sequels & Miss Darcy's sapphic HEA! Tickets are free (unless you'd like a signed book!) Link to sign up here 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/queering-g...

in other news, that Jane Austen sure could write, couldn't she

When anyone mentions Marilyn Monroe’s pill addiction I am honour bound to bring up her severe incredibly painful endometriosis that she had surgery on BACK THEN because it was so bad. She was considered unreliable by men when she was often in debilitating pain

Listening to Ethel Cain's Fuck Me Eyes whilst writing about Lydia Bennet (and Mr Wickham) feels very fitting & a very similar vibe 🫡

I love watching seagulls waddle on to trains through open doors. Happens pretty often by the seaside

Commission an immediate public inquiry to ensure we never see a tragic death like Dr Arday's again. goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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