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Catherine Rose Maw
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18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨
Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀
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Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social · Nov 19
Hello Bluesky! Starting to get used to this platform so, it’s probably time to introduce myself and to let you know a little bit about me and what you’re likely to find on my account… ☺️
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Had lots of fun hosting our Long Nineteenth Century Studies Christmas Quiz again this year!🎄❤️ My favourite rounds to make were “Nineteenth Century Poetry or 80s Song?” and “Who’s masquerading as Father Christmas?” with Joseph Swan definitely making the best imposter Santa Claus! 🎅🏼✨
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Little ghost! 👻 Photo from my collection, 1964.
Black and white photo of a shorthaired pretty little white cat standing on a lawn in front of a white clapboard building. It’s looks like it might be meowing as the mouth seems open. Its tail is up and it has a happy, relaxed air about it.
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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‘Twas the knight before Christmas ⚔️🎄💫
Suit of armour in front of two decorated Christmas trees, against backdrop of stone castle wall. The suit of armour holds the Hylton family heraldic shield adorned with a red bow, and wears a Santa hat.
December 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Being out past my bedtime is making me feel my Spotify age…
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Nerd humor coming your way 😂
A screenshot showing an old chair and on it, it says: "Everyone who ever sat on this chair is now dead. Play it safe and remain standing." The caption reads: "best 'do not touch' museum sign ever?
December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Spotify wrapped giving me the opportunity to celebrate my favourite podcasts! 🎉 I’ve thoroughly enjoyed listening to these this year - would definitely recommend 🖤✨ @threeravenspod.bsky.social @icysedgwick.bsky.social @lingthusiasm.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Mousepad makes perfect seat for tiny feet 🐾✨
Close up of black cat paws sitting on rug style mouse pad.
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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There's nothing better than #festivelights by the fire. Here's Joseph Swan & his wife sitting by the fire at their home in Warlingham c 1904 #ArchiveAdventCalendar #Christmas collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll... @arascot.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Jesmond Old Cemetery in Newcastle upon Tyne was founded in 1834. The north's most notable architect, John Dobson, designed the cemetery, and he was later buried here.
Sun shining through autumn trees in a cemetery.
November 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Happy National Black Cat Day to my sleepy little shadow 🐈‍⬛❤️✨
October 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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library’s a bit cold; let’s just read in bed… might as well lie down… it’ll be cosier lying on my side… i’ll feel more awake if i just rest my eyes for ten seconds… a quick power nap will help me focus…
October 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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#OTD in 1958 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Percy Building was officially opened by Professor J. Dover Wilson, and named after the first Rector of Kings College, Lord Eustace Percy.

Browse the brochure for the opening event on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
Front cover of the booklet created for the opening of the Percy Building. Photograph of the front of the Percy Building facing onto the Quadrangle. Group of attendees at the official opening of the Percy Building.
October 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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How I love mornings like this 🍂❄️🥰
September 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Today should have been the deadline for #BSECS2026, but we are extending it by a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK! Share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026 by sending us your proposals before MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
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September 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Just a spooky girl enjoying her spooky blanket 🖤✨
Little black cat on a black and white patterned blanket.
September 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Had the most beautiful time in Cambridge for #BARS2025 last week. It was great to spend time with such lovely fellow Romanticists 💕 The days were filled with Romantic treasures, insightful panels, inspiring conversations and wonderful company! Thanks so much to everyone involved ✨ @bars.bsky.social
Statue of Lord Byron in the Wren Library, Trinity College. Gardens of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Latin bible inscribed “W. Wordsworth”, St. John’s College Library. William Wordsworth’s life mask, St John’s College Library.
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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We even got to meet William Wordsworth! @19thcenturyem.bsky.social @realityandreverie.bsky.social
bars.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · Sep 3
Our PGR & ECR conference begins tomorrow, but right now we’re being treated to a lovely exhibition at the St John’s College, Cambridge special collections!
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A collection of Wordsworth material, including some portraits and a sonnet about the portrait. Some copies of Coleridge works, including an autograph annotated Christabel. A life mask of William Wordsworth. Three people taking a selfie with Wordsworth’s life mask.
September 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Happy International Cat Day! ❤️🐾
Sleepy black cat
August 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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“Gather round the campfire and listen in…” 🔥

Love love love this new book from @threeravenspod.bsky.social! My favourite source for all things weird, wonderful, wild and whimsical… ❤️💫🐦‍⬛

It certainly gets Trixie’s seal of approval 🖤✨
“The Three Ravens Folk Tales” open to “The Fish and the Ring: A Northumberland Tale”, fairy lights and white mug that reads “Basic Witch” on a dark wood table. Front cover of “The Three Ravens Folk Tales” by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux on William Morris Blackthorn background. Trixie, a black cat, enjoying “The Three Ravens Folk Tales”.
July 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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💚 Photo from my collection, 1977.
Color photo of a shorthaired black cat sitting by a window, looking outside at green foliage with its back to the camera with a leafy little houseplant next to it. The main light source is soft natural, indirect sunlight. It's a very calm and beautiful domestic scene.
June 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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I am now so depressed that I have not an idea to put to paper — my hand feels like lead — and yet it is an unpleasant numbness; it does not take away the pain of Existence. I don’t know what to write.

John Keats (letter B. Bailey, 28 May 1818)
Text source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35698/35698-h/35698-h.htm#LIII Image source (detail): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Keats_-_HH.jpg
May 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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“then on the shore of the wide world I stand alone, and think…” - John Keats 🌊✨

📍Seaham Beach
View of the ocean from Seaham Beach. Sand, rocks, waves, and a bright blue sky.
April 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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BARS is delighted to announce that the 2026 International Biennial Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme is Romantic Retrospection.

Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference)

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908
March 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Well it was rather interesting trying to get home from work today…
View of bridges across the River Tyne from the High Level Bridge.
March 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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the hardest part of living alone really is trying to finish a bag of spinach
March 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM