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Dr Rhonda Mayne
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Academic in Modern Literature & Culture. Virginia Woolf, Modernism, Women’s Writing, 1920s–30s Poetry, WWI Literature, Social class, Feminism, Dance & Performance. Explore my work @ https://sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne/current-projects
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100 years of Mrs Dalloway 🌿

The National Trust is restoring Virginia Woolf’s only surviving garment, a shawl from 1933, now too fragile to display.

Help ensure this rare piece of Woolf’s world endures.

🔗 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex...

#MrsDalloway100 #VirginiaWoolf #NationalTrust
Conservation at Monk's House
Learn about the conservation work carried out by the National Trust at Monk's House, from restoring shawls to protecting wildlife in the garden.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
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For this #ModWrite, I found myself dwelling on one sharp detail in The Years—a dancer’s tight shoes—and how Woolf uses that fleeting image to unravel the pretence and pressure of social hierarchy. Small moment, big resonance.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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elderman.bsky.social
Dresses created by Lucile fashion house, founded in 1894 by English designer and costumer Lady Duff Gordon (London, 1863 - 1935).
The photographs range from 1901 to 1912
November 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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The top 10 of the top 100 British novels according to book critics outside the UK. Virginia Woolf came 2nd & 3rd for To the Lighthouse & Mrs Dalloway respectively. She is the only 20th C author to make the top 10. Full list on the BBC website: www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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2025 marks the centenary of A.N. Whitehead’s Lowell Lectures, Science and the Modern World; 2026 the centenary of the first British edition.

Nick Gaskill and I are organising a panel on Whitehead, focused on SMW, for the MSA/BAMS conference in 2026, and are looking for an additional contributor.
Jacket of the Free Association Books edition
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Assistant Professor in Film Studies
Trinity College Dublin,

5 year Tenure track

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPL809/a...
Assistant Professor in Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Recruiting now: Assistant Professor in Film Studies on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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On 24 Nov. we welcome Dr Catriona Kennedy (York), to speak about her new book 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'. All welcome (hybrid) www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
Irish Studies Seminar: Catriona Kennedy, 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere'
www.qub.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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irishstudiesqub.bsky.social
On Mon. 1 Dec. at 4.30 we'll be joined by Emily Mark-FitzGerald, Emma Radley (UCD) & Daithi Kearney (Dundalk IT) to talk about 'Irish Studies - Beyond the Text', drawing on the 2025 special issue of Irish University Review. All welcome in-person/online. Reg at www.ticketsource.co.uk/institute-of...
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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bodleian.ox.ac.uk
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27!

The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025.

For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships
Promotional banner inviting applications for Visiting Fellowships at the Bodleian Libraries for 2026-27, featuring an interior view of the library.
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
drrmayne.bsky.social
100 years of Mrs Dalloway 🌿

The National Trust is restoring Virginia Woolf’s only surviving garment, a shawl from 1933, now too fragile to display.

Help ensure this rare piece of Woolf’s world endures.

🔗 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex...

#MrsDalloway100 #VirginiaWoolf #NationalTrust
Conservation at Monk's House
Learn about the conservation work carried out by the National Trust at Monk's House, from restoring shawls to protecting wildlife in the garden.
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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bombaylychee.bsky.social
Virginia Woolf and an Aalto chair, by Man Ray.
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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xingwu.bsky.social
Centuries before Virginia Woolf dreamed of a “room of one’s own,” Li Qingzhao(1084 – ca. 1155) already claimed hers in the Song Dynasty. While most women were bound to the household, she built a library of 4,000 volumes and wrote with a voice both lyrical and defiant. 1/2
#poem
Here is her most famous poem(translated by Jiaosheng Wang): 《如夢令·昨夜雨疏風驟》 昨夜雨疏風驟，濃睡不消殘酒。 試問卷簾人，卻道海棠依舊。 知否，知否？應是綠肥紅瘦。 Late night wind howled with light shower, Still hungover despite my heavy slumber. Ask for shades to be rolled from sill, Was told my HaiTang blossomed still. Oh honey! But don't you know? Tis the season reds ebb and greens flow.
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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elderman.bsky.social
Edward Hopper
Adobes and Shed, New Mexico, 1925
Watercolor with graphite pencil on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art
November 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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A new special issue of English Studies I'm really keen to put together! Please consider submitting and circulate widely! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...
CFP: Bookselling and Literature
Bookselling and LiteratureA Special Issue of English Studies Guest Editor: Matthew Chambers ([email protected]) One of the best-known literary friendships was formed in a bookshop, and one…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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(158) "The Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf (read by Tom O'Bedlam) - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT1q...
"The Haunted House" by Virginia Woolf (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
YouTube video by SpokenVerse
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October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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FEMINIST HISTORY CONFERENCE on the politics of motherhood, a live field of scholarship voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/ne...
Updates from the project – Voices of Motherhood
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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sarahknott.bsky.social
ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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johnbharveywriter.bsky.social
This week's painting ... 'The Viaduct' John Nash, Oil on canvas, 1916.
October 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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intleliotsociety.bsky.social
Want another listen of Fran Brearton's excellent Memorial Lecture at our annual conference in Dublin? Thanks to TCD, we have a recording!

"Barbarous Cuisine: T.S. Eliot in Ireland 1936-1940"
soundcloud.com/tlrhub/ts-el...

#ModWrite #modernist #modernism #litstudies
profile pic of Dr Fran Brearton
July 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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intleliotsociety.bsky.social
The Eliot Studies Annual - our Society journal and one of the best places for cutting edge modernist studies scholarship! - is looking for an editor. Please see below for more information and consider applying!

Deadline: Friday November 21, 2025
#modernism #litstudies

RTs much appreciated 🙏
Eliot Studies Annual editorial position The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is seeking a new editor. Now in its seventh volume, the Annual features the best new scholarship on the poet, dramatist, critic, and editor T. S. Eliot, published once a year by the International T. S. Eliot Society and Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press. The Annual is available on JSTOR Books and University Scholarship Online, as well as Project Muse. Access is provided to all Eliot Society members on the Liverpool UP platform. The new editor will join the existing team as associate editor for an initial term of six months starting January 1, 2026 and become a full-fledged co-editor with the publication of the current volume in July 2026. The total duration of service is three and a half years, through July 2029, and the new editor will assist in the selection of a second co-editor for 2027. The co-editors supervise each volume from the first call for papers through the referee and editorial process, production, and promotion/circulation. The position affords opportunities to develop the journal, impact Eliot scholarship, and build professional relationships. Record of scholarly publication necessary, but not editorial experience; learn on the job. Send CV, writing sample, and letter of application stating qualifications and reason for interest to tseliot.studies.annual@gmail.com by Friday, Nov 21st, 2025.
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Louise Moillon, Bowl of Lemons and Oranges on a Box of Wood Shavings and Pomegranates, ca. 1630s.

(National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington. Photo Lee Stalsworth)
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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leverhulme.ac.uk
In a world where disinformation is a growing threat, academic research is more crucial than ever.

Join us for a timely and inspiring conversation with a line-up of leading speakers on Monday 17 November: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/5x15-lever... @expeditions.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026

We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!

Please share!!
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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New resource on BNA for people interested in 1890s Ireland - 'The Illustrograph' (1894-9)
Dubbed 'The Graphic of Ireland,' it was a monthly paper edited by H. Easom Hudson, printing a range of photographs celebrating Irish personalities & places.
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/titles/illus...
October 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Deadline Extended: Poet in Residence 2025-2027 🖌

We have extended the deadline to apply for the role of Poet in Residence 2025-2027 to Friday 31st October at 5:00 p.m.

For more details visit www.poetryireland.ie/education/ne...

Supported by @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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My word but the BBC used to make some really good programmes. Here on the BBC iPlayer you can get Bryan Magee's 1987 'The Great Philosophers' series, where you can (as I currently am doing) watch Sydney Morgenbesser talking about Peirce, James and Dewey.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
The Great Philosophers - Series 1: 13. The American Pragmatists
Bryan Magee and Sidney Morgenbesser discuss the work of the American pragmatists CS Peirce, John Dewey and William James.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM