Kirsten Shepherd
kirstensb.bsky.social
Kirsten Shepherd
@kirstensb.bsky.social
LitHits founder and co-curator, professor, reader, writer.
Fate strikes on 'the Tube'
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Fate strikes on 'the Tube'
A flirtatious and clandestine meeting on the subway--from over a century ago...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Thrilled to announce that I have a new book out with OUP this week, with co-editor Tzen Sam and translator Gaye Kynoch. It tells the true story of how Ibsen's A Doll's House came about, and the real woman--Laura Kieler, author and playwright--who inspired it: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
A taste of Saki...the brilliant short story writer whose tale of 'Sredni Vashtar' will haunt you
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The grisly fate of Mrs. De Ropp
A young boy finds a fiendish way to silence his harshly oppressive guardian
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November 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Shakespeare's St Crispin's Day speech (set on October 25!) open.substack.com/pub/lithits/...
St Crispin's Day
A king rallies his outnumbered troops at the Battle of Agincourt
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October 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
'Recovering Laura Kieler--The Real Woman behind Ibsen's A Doll's House' -- Univ of Birmingham, Oct 29, 1.30-3pm, Arts Building 103 (Constance Naden Room – 1st fl). Please join us!
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October 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What is an animal character?
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What is an animal character?
A brutal incident seen from the perspective of a colt
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October 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
'But thy eternal summer shall not fade'
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'But thy eternal summer shall not fade'
A classic love poem that invites multiple interpretations
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September 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Ode to a brilliant scientist and her 'humane war'
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Ode to a brilliant scientist and her 'humane war'
A woman poet hails a woman scientist
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August 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
One poem, many interpretations...
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One poem, many interpretations...
Robert Frost's much loved poem has meant different things to different people
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August 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
'August' by Helen Hunt Jackson
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'August' by Helen Hunt Jackson
A sonnet to the 'middle-aged' month by a poet and friend of Emily Dickinson
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August 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Cool temperatures...and crabs! open.substack.com/pub/lithits/...
Crabs!
Notes from a real South Pole expedition detail an unexpected hazard on the way down to the Antarctic
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July 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
A chestnut gets stuck in an inconvenient place...
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A chestnut gets stuck in an inconvenient place...
Ouch! Laurence Sterne entertains and embarrasses us in equal measure
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July 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM