✨In August 2023, Pride and Prejudice travelled to Limerick, Ireland 🍀A new stage adaptation took an environmental turn: it used public gardens and the riverbank as scenery and stagecraft ♻️A recycled wardrobe and no electricity

Thanks so much for sharing, @bloomsburyaced.bsky.social! 🙂

Bloomsbury Academic Education@bloomsburyaced.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why do we avoid talking about failure in academia? In this insightful interview with @ecrlife.bsky.social, the editors of Women, 'Failure' and Academia explore what can happen when we redefine and even embrace it: ecrlife.org/interview-book-women-failure-and-academia

✨Suffragettes in Scotland turned to Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford 🏰In December 1909, members of the radical Women’s Freedom League staged a Cranford scene at the Oak Hall Edinburgh Café

We’ve appeared in Norwegian! We’ve been interviewed about our collection *Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia* EN kifinfo.no/en/2026/06/a... NO kifinfo.no/nb/2026/05/f... OPEN ACCESS *Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia* www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

Who is your favourite woman writer from the 1800s? Today, many readers are likely to name Jane Austen, but in the 1880s, a common answer across Europe might well have been E. Marlitt. Find out which female authors reached historical readers ca 1850-1920: brill.com/display/titl... #BookHistory

Redrawing Europe's Literary Map

"Redrawing Europe's Literary Map" published on 25 Jun 2026 by Brill.

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✨In 1916, Smith College, US—a progressive higher ed institution, later to become Sylvia Plath’s alma mater—staged a pageant of literary women 💪 It showcased women’s talents through literary heroines, from Helen of Troy to Ibsen’s Nora

Happening this week! 🤩🥳

Dr Marina Cano@drmarinacano.bsky.social · last mo.

9 July 2026, 4-5.15pm (CET): Special Guest Lecture by Dr Marina Cano “Adapting Violence, Violence in Adaptation: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Behind Bars.” Free. Zoom. All welcome! For the link, contact: womenwritingviolence@gmail.com global.oup.com/academic/pro... #C19th #Adaptation

9 July 2026, 4-5.15pm (CET): Special Guest Lecture by Dr Marina Cano “Adapting Violence, Violence in Adaptation: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Behind Bars.” Free. Zoom. All welcome! For the link, contact: womenwritingviolence@gmail.com global.oup.com/academic/pro... #C19th #Adaptation

✨Austen’s Mr Bingley as an 18thC H.Weinstein? 🙋 In my #MeToo reading of Pride and Prejudice (via the stage). ⚖️ Bingley abandons the woman he’s been very publicly courting 💗 And Jane Bennet blames herself for her fanciful imagination

Two weeks to this event! Can’t wait!! 🤩🥳 Free. Zoom. All welcome: ucd-ie.zoom.us/j/6428498751... 9 July 2026, 4-5.15pm CET On the book: global.oup.com/academic/pro... On the Network: wwvnetwork.wordpress.com #C19th #WomenWriters #Adaptation

✨Star actress Rose Eytinge (1835-1911) had a reputation as a trouble-maker 😈In the middle of a production of East Lynne, she stood up and rebuked an audience member 💥 He was drunk and disruptive, mocking her performance of Lady Isabel’s melodramatic deathbed scene

Thanks a million to @essenglish.bsky.social for sharing this! ❤️💙❤️

ESSE@essenglish.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Book Announcement: Title: Women, “Failure” and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University. Editors: Marina Cano & Rosa García-Periago 👉 essenglish.org/messenger/bl...

✨George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss on the experimental stage! 🧠🌀This theatrical tradition brings up the unconscious of the piece via exploratory movement ✂️It split heroine Maggie Tulliver into 3

📣 This Thursday the Women Writing Violence Network is hosting an online best-practice conversation on: 💥 Teaching Violent Texts and Images 💥 📆 18th June – 3pm BST / 4pm CET (90 mins) with speakers including @drclaireocall.bsky.social and @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social – join us – all welcome!

Truly honoured to feature in the latest episode of @adaptationtoday.bsky.social. Thanks to my wonderful hosts @drgbain.bsky.social & @reraddatz.bsky.social adaptationtoday.com/resources/po... Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Adaptation Today: The Podcast

Never miss an episode Join the listserv for updates on this new resource! Join the listserv! Adaptation Today: The Podcast is edited and produced by Adaptation Today editors Gracie Bain and Rebecca…

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Adaptation Today@adaptationtoday.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New podcast episode available with @drmarinacano.bsky.social !! Gracie, Rebecca, and Marina talk about Marina's new book: Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women's Novels on the Stage (2026)

✨Pride and Prejudice staged behind bars (not only Shakespeare)! 🙋‍♀️ Inmate-actors wrote their own adaptation, highlighting Elizabeth Bennet’s strength of character ✊ For many, Lizzy was their favourite character. Also, the giddy, freedom-loving Lydia Bennet

You can recommend *Theatrical Afterlives* directly to your library through this link academic.oup.com/pages/get-he... *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... ISBN: 9780198992882 #19thC #WomenWriters #Theatre #Novel

🧵✨Heathcliff before Jacob Elordi ☘️ There have been numerous Irish Heathcliffs since 1934 🎭 Heathcliff has spoken Irish onstage and been presented as the “stranger in the house” typical of modern Irish drama

We’ve been interviewed! Thanks so much to @angelfcc.bsky.social and the @ecrlife.bsky.social team! Open Access *Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia* www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

ecrLife@ecrlife.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Failure in academia is an abstract concept less spoken about. We interviewed Marina Cano and Rosa García-Periago to discuss their book, “Women, ‘Failure’ and Academia”. In this collection they explore understanding failure and how to repurpose it. tinyurl.com/mv56xjtf

🧵✨ London 1912, the International Suffrage Fair at Chelsea counted with the presence of the Cranford ladies (from Gaskell’s novel) 💪 On the suffrage stage, Miss Pole was “even more aggressive” than in the novel! 🗳️‍♀️ The scene was chosen for its humour and used to demand “Votes for Women!”

Honoured to be giving the 1st Guest Lecture of the Women Writing Violence Network! Free. Zoom. All welcome, ucd-ie.zoom.us/j/6428498751... *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... About the Network wwvnetwork.wordpress.com

🧵✨ Meet Lucille Western (1843-1877), American artiste. First ever to play Lady Isabel Vane (from East Lynne) in Baltimore, 1861. Her performance was critiqued as exaggerated, loud, OTT. But Western created the archetypal Lady Isabel for decades to come.

🎉📚 HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY: *Women, 'Failure' and Academia* is out today, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... Open Access With @rellypops.bsky.social @tsjharling.bsky.social @dawnlyon.bsky.social @profjoubin.bsky.social @tarabrabazon.bsky.social #Academia #Failure

The acknowledgements of this book matter to me. (From next week, I’ll begin a new series introducing some of the book’s highlights! ✨) From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #Precarity #Academia #Adaptation

Just recorded my first podcast on *Theatrical Afterlives* for @adaptationtoday.bsky.social with the very talented @drgbain.bsky.social and @reraddatz.bsky.social Coming up soon! *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

By this time next week, Women, 'Failure' and Academia: Activism, Creativity and Critique in the Contemporary University will be out in the world! @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Open Access, www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-fai... #Academia #AcademicPrecarity #Failure

🔥 Epilogue: Is there gender parity in adaptation studies? Link to the e-epilogue academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #Adaptation #GenderBias #GlobalAdaptation #19thC

🔥 Almost 7 years after I started this project, today I got the books! *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #TheatricalAfterlives #NineteenthCentury #Adaptation

Chapter 5, The Brontës on the Irish Stage 🥀 🏚️🌬️ ☘️ Link to the e-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c... From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro... #WutheringHeights #Ireland #Heathcliff #EmilyBrontë #CharlotteBrontë

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