Emma Butler-Marr
@19thcenturyem.bsky.social
PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts @ehunineteen.bsky.social ⛱️ | Jane Austen nerd and period drama enthusiast | Chronically ill with endometriosis & chronic pain💛 (she/her)
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I am BEYOND excited to share that I will be the 2025 BARS visiting fellow at Chawton House this November. A huge thank you to @drbeard79.bsky.social for being my referee and supporting my application and to @chawtonhouse.bsky.social & @bars.bsky.social for the opportunity!
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The deadline is TOMORROW!
Reminder: BARS Biennial International Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection (University of Birmingham) – Call for Papers Deadline 30 November 2025
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Updates on session calls & bursaries, plus details of how to submit at the links:
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
November 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The deadline is TOMORROW!
New academic headshot from my month at Chawton 🤍 - and a silly picture capturing my PhD perfectly
Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for the photography/tips (and for being a lovely co fellow & making me gjggle a lot this month✨️)
Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for the photography/tips (and for being a lovely co fellow & making me gjggle a lot this month✨️)
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
New academic headshot from my month at Chawton 🤍 - and a silly picture capturing my PhD perfectly
Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for the photography/tips (and for being a lovely co fellow & making me gjggle a lot this month✨️)
Thanks to @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for the photography/tips (and for being a lovely co fellow & making me gjggle a lot this month✨️)
Really looking forward to speaking at this!
Join us for a pre-Christmas treat to celebrate the work of our postgraduate researchers.
Free, online, all welcome - register in skeet below!
🎄 🎁 ☃️
Free, online, all welcome - register in skeet below!
🎄 🎁 ☃️
A Christmas treat will be:
10/12/25: Flash Talks from our EHU Nineteen postgraduate researchers, 6-7 pm
The Brontës and gardens! The seaside as liminal space! Women as victims of violence in Liverpool! Women as art collectors in the North West!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
10/12/25: Flash Talks from our EHU Nineteen postgraduate researchers, 6-7 pm
The Brontës and gardens! The seaside as liminal space! Women as victims of violence in Liverpool! Women as art collectors in the North West!
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Really looking forward to speaking at this!
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Let our own @digivictorian.bsky.social *scandalise* you about Oscar Wilde!!
I appear as an expert historian in a new documentary film about the trials of Oscar Wilde. Check it out on History Hit from today! access.historyhit.com/videos/a-ver...
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Let our own @digivictorian.bsky.social *scandalise* you about Oscar Wilde!!
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I appear as an expert historian in a new documentary film about the trials of Oscar Wilde. Check it out on History Hit from today! access.historyhit.com/videos/a-ver...
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I appear as an expert historian in a new documentary film about the trials of Oscar Wilde. Check it out on History Hit from today! access.historyhit.com/videos/a-ver...
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TOMORROW - join us!!!
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
TOMORROW - join us!!!
A visit to Winchester to finally say hi to Austen 🤍 of course had to buy the overly touristy Austen scarf, because I fear I'm the main target audience 🫡
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
A visit to Winchester to finally say hi to Austen 🤍 of course had to buy the overly touristy Austen scarf, because I fear I'm the main target audience 🫡
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My latest foray into the world of television history starts TOMORROW, channel 5 at 8.05pm.
The production team 'Coming Up Roses' were an absolute delight to work with.
I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch 🙃
#skystorians #historianatwork #womenshistory #birth
The production team 'Coming Up Roses' were an absolute delight to work with.
I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch 🙃
#skystorians #historianatwork #womenshistory #birth
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
My latest foray into the world of television history starts TOMORROW, channel 5 at 8.05pm.
The production team 'Coming Up Roses' were an absolute delight to work with.
I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch 🙃
#skystorians #historianatwork #womenshistory #birth
The production team 'Coming Up Roses' were an absolute delight to work with.
I'm not sure I can bring myself to watch 🙃
#skystorians #historianatwork #womenshistory #birth
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This looks DELICIOUS 😋
WE HAVE A FRONT COVER!! 📖📚📘
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
The King’s Dinner
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a large, open dataset of two royal household kitchen ledgers, the authors study the role and inf...
uclpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This looks DELICIOUS 😋
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WE HAVE A FRONT COVER!! 📖📚📘
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
The King’s Dinner
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a large, open dataset of two royal household kitchen ledgers, the authors study the role and inf...
uclpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
WE HAVE A FRONT COVER!! 📖📚📘
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
FINALLY watched the new Frankenstein and although it wasn't 100% book accurate I enjoyed it very much! Gave a lot of the correct vibes, and made Victor Frankenstein even more unlikeable LOL (but I love Oscar Isaac). 9/10 from me ✨️
(Also Jacob Elordi smashed it as the Creature, surprised me a lot!)
(Also Jacob Elordi smashed it as the Creature, surprised me a lot!)
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
FINALLY watched the new Frankenstein and although it wasn't 100% book accurate I enjoyed it very much! Gave a lot of the correct vibes, and made Victor Frankenstein even more unlikeable LOL (but I love Oscar Isaac). 9/10 from me ✨️
(Also Jacob Elordi smashed it as the Creature, surprised me a lot!)
(Also Jacob Elordi smashed it as the Creature, surprised me a lot!)
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i must say, the whole “frankenstein is actually the dr”/“no he was actually an undergrad” thing is very relatable to me as an undergraduate who spends all my time cosplaying as an academic and then having to tell people i’m actually 20 and degree-less
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
i must say, the whole “frankenstein is actually the dr”/“no he was actually an undergrad” thing is very relatable to me as an undergraduate who spends all my time cosplaying as an academic and then having to tell people i’m actually 20 and degree-less
Jane Austen's house was a little dream come true ✨️ the best way to mark #janeausten250
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Jane Austen's house was a little dream come true ✨️ the best way to mark #janeausten250
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I love that everyone is discovering that Mary Shelley’s monster was eloquent and not the shambling creature that Universal turned him into. I feel like the gothic literature fairy godmother watching the children learn 🖤
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I love that everyone is discovering that Mary Shelley’s monster was eloquent and not the shambling creature that Universal turned him into. I feel like the gothic literature fairy godmother watching the children learn 🖤
My grandad's favourite tea being in the cupboard of the flat is cute because I know he'd have been SO excited for me to be here...
Today's Chawton snippets (I'll stop doing this soon I promise but I still can't believe I'm here 🤣)
Today's Chawton snippets (I'll stop doing this soon I promise but I still can't believe I'm here 🤣)
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My grandad's favourite tea being in the cupboard of the flat is cute because I know he'd have been SO excited for me to be here...
Today's Chawton snippets (I'll stop doing this soon I promise but I still can't believe I'm here 🤣)
Today's Chawton snippets (I'll stop doing this soon I promise but I still can't believe I'm here 🤣)
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*extremely* jealous of my brilliant PhD student Emma who is luxuriating in a fellowship at Chawton House this month 🖤
An excellent first proper day at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social ✨️ introduction to the reading room means an exciting start to the fellowship and a lovely chilly walk around the grounds this morning
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
*extremely* jealous of my brilliant PhD student Emma who is luxuriating in a fellowship at Chawton House this month 🖤
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Listen in for our own @drbeard79.bsky.social eating a bun the size of his head and gossiping about Sense & Sensibility
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Listen in for our own @drbeard79.bsky.social eating a bun the size of his head and gossiping about Sense & Sensibility
An excellent first proper day at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social ✨️ introduction to the reading room means an exciting start to the fellowship and a lovely chilly walk around the grounds this morning
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
An excellent first proper day at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social ✨️ introduction to the reading room means an exciting start to the fellowship and a lovely chilly walk around the grounds this morning
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Chawton bound for my fellowship!! First train so far has been lovely and smooth (I've never had such a chilled train to London 😂) Let's hope this continues 🫡
November 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Chawton bound for my fellowship!! First train so far has been lovely and smooth (I've never had such a chilled train to London 😂) Let's hope this continues 🫡
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Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
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Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Had such fun sharing my spooky research today at the Spooky History conference! There is nothing spookier, after all, than being chronically ill 🤣
Also a fantastic paper from @ornamh.bsky.social too on the Paris Catacombs, so fascinating! ☠️
Also a fantastic paper from @ornamh.bsky.social too on the Paris Catacombs, so fascinating! ☠️
October 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Had such fun sharing my spooky research today at the Spooky History conference! There is nothing spookier, after all, than being chronically ill 🤣
Also a fantastic paper from @ornamh.bsky.social too on the Paris Catacombs, so fascinating! ☠️
Also a fantastic paper from @ornamh.bsky.social too on the Paris Catacombs, so fascinating! ☠️
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Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
Our second seminar is:
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
27/11/25: David Coates, ‘Amateur Theatricals: in Fiction and in Fact’, 6-7 pm
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#EHU19SeminarSeries
October 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Our first seminar was fabulous and has been recorded of you missed it - don’t miss our November event on Amateur Theatricals hosted by the very professional @catherinequirk.bsky.social!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
Register in the link below - free, online, all welcome!
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Just one week until I get to chat with the inimitable @drbeard79.bsky.social about disability, care, and belonging in Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, and Walter Scott. Do come along if you can. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Matthew Reznicek, 'Too Bodily: Disability, Care, and Belonging in Romantic Novels'. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining t...
Join us for our first EHU Nineteen seminar of 2025-2026.
us06web.zoom.us
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Just one week until I get to chat with the inimitable @drbeard79.bsky.social about disability, care, and belonging in Jane Austen, Sydney Owenson, and Walter Scott. Do come along if you can. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...