victorianpersistence.wordpress.com
Paris | Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory
https://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/dickens-bicentenary-celebration/paris
Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory. The life of the past persisting in us, is the business of every thinking man and woman.’ (AS Byatt). Dickens and the Idea of the ‘Dickensian’ City. Hosted by University Paris-Diderot, UFR d’Etudes Anglophones (Marais district of Paris). Welcome and Official Opening. Sara Thornton Université Paris-Diderot. Jean-Marie Fournier, Head of the English Department Université Paris-Diderot. Session 1: The Romantic and Gothic City: twistings, labyrinths, wastelands.
writingprivacy.com
Writing Privacy | Page 2
https://writingprivacy.com/page/2
A former academic favours Aladdin. I recently described myself as a ‘former academic’, which brought to mind the last lecture I gave – and its crazy comparisons. Continue reading →. From U to P: the unlikely route to a doctorate. At the age of 18, I failed a mock A-Level exam on the seventeenth-century poet, Andrew Marvell. Eleven years later, I submitted a doctoral thesis on him. This is a brief overview of the journey from failure to redemption. Continue reading →. My recent work on Marvell and ekphras...
writingprivacy.com
We are not all daydreamers | Writing Privacy
https://writingprivacy.com/2015/06/05/we-are-not-all-daydreamers
We are not all daydreamers. This entry was posted on June 5, 2015, in Writing. Bookish – Image by Strawbleu. Inside the workplace, you’re quite often in your own little world. It’s a familiar story. For me, it presents itself most vividly when I say something particularly baffling and lose everyone completely. My colleagues seem quite humoured by it, and it’s a harmless enough flaw. It’s the result of living too much in one’s own head. 8:30 Before I leave for work, I put out an emergency reminder to RSVP...
victorianpersistence.wordpress.com
Chatham and Rochester | Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory
https://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/dickens-bicentenary-celebration/chatham-and-rochester
Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory. The life of the past persisting in us, is the business of every thinking man and woman.’ (AS Byatt). Childhood, ‘Great Expectations’ and the Idea of ‘the Dickensian’. Co-hosted by Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent on the Universities at Medway Campus (Chatham, Kent). A morning in Dickens’s Rochester and its environs. 845am coach pick-up at the Ramada Hotel, Chatham. Welcome and introduction to Dickens’s Rochester and Chatham. Panel ...
writingprivacy.com
An End to Anonymity | Writing Privacy
https://writingprivacy.com/2015/05/30/an-end-to-anonymity
An End to Anonymity. This entry was posted on May 30, 2015, in Writing. After six years of anonymity here at Writing Privacy, I’ve decided that it’s time to reveal myself. Since migrating here from LiveJournal. In 2009, I’ve always left signposts about my identity. Something about full anonymity leaves me uncomfortable. How can you expect anyone to subscribe to your integrity if you cannot trust a reader with as much as a real name? Distance has always seemed a sensible, if not the only, option. But beha...
victorianpersistence.wordpress.com
Short Dickens film festival | Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory
https://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/of-victorian-interest/short-dickens-film-festival
Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory. The life of the past persisting in us, is the business of every thinking man and woman.’ (AS Byatt). Short Dickens film festival. Event organised in June 2012. Short Dickens film festival. Organised by LARCA research centre, Victorian Persistence, The British Embassy and The British Council. A Tale of Two Cities. Speakers and round table after film showings. UFR d’Etudes anglophones. 10, rue Charles V. A Tale of Two Cities, Ralph Thomas, 1958. Post-film talk an...
victorianpersistence.wordpress.com
Victorian Persistence Conference | Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory
https://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/of-victorian-interest/victorian-persistence-conference
Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory. The life of the past persisting in us, is the business of every thinking man and woman.’ (AS Byatt). Conference organised in December 2012. Many thanks to Clémence Folléa for creating the conference poster! Victorian Persistence Conference Programme. A one-day postgraduate conference. Friday, 7 December 2012. The life of the past persisting in us, is the business of every thinking man and woman. Though much is taken, much abides; and though. We are not now that...
victorianpersistence.wordpress.com
Persistent Spaces | Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory
https://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/of-victorian-interest/persistent-spaces
Victorian Persistence: Text, Image, Theory. The life of the past persisting in us, is the business of every thinking man and woman.’ (AS Byatt). C onference organised in December 2013. THURSDAY, 12 DECEMBER. Registration, welcome, plenary address by Sara Thornton, Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Cultural Studies, Université Paris Diderot. Panel 1: Urbanism and urban planning. Allan Potofsky, Professor of Eighteenth-Century History, Université Paris Diderot. Queen Mary University of...
victoriandomesticdangers.com
“Death from Eating Poisonous Mushrooms” | Victorian Domestic Dangers
https://victoriandomesticdangers.com/2014/02/20/death-from-eating-poisoning-mushrooms
An exploration of the hazardous objects and features found in the Victorian home. The ‘Hazards’ of Laundry. DEATH FROM FALLING INTO A TUB OF SCALDING BEER’ →. Raquo; Death from Eating Poisonous Mushrooms. Death from Eating Poisonous Mushrooms. February 20, 2014. Accounts of Victorian poisonings involving bath buns. On 22nd September 1860, the Ipswich Journal. Thomas and Adelaide Boothroyd are my childrenOn Sunday last (9. Inst), I fried six mushrooms for breakfast, which my son had brought home the previ...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT