Kim Wilson
LightNews LightNews
banner
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Kim Wilson
@kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
3.9K followers 1.8K following 900 posts
Books:Tea with Jane Austen, At Home with Jane Austen, In the Garden with Jane Austen.Traveling Lecturer 2023 Jane Austen Society of N. America. 18th & 19th century material culture, food history. kimwilsonauthor.com. 🚫👑
Posts Replies Media Videos
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Did women ruin the workplace?
Jane Austen (1775-1817), considered by many to be the best novelist ever in the English language. Her works include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Sweetpea time!
A pink glass vase filled with pink sweetpeas suits on a windowsill.
June 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
“What dreadful Hot weather we have!—it keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.” — Jane Austen, in a letter to her sister, Cassandra, September 18, 1796.
1816 caricature by James Gillray.
#JaneAusten #heatwave
1816 caricature, "The Calm," by James Gillray. It shows a seaside scene with ships, bathing machines, a fisherman, and beachgoers. In the foreground, a woman in a white Regency dress carries a parasol to protect herself from the sun, and a portly man removes his hat and wig to mop his sweating head.
June 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Zooey agrees! It's a flop day.
June 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
It's just too hot!
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
A beautiful day to rally for democracy! Here's our sign.
A sign from a No Kings rally with a crossed-out crown and the words "LIBERTY" and "NO KINGS."
June 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
My favorite sign today! Posted with permission.
June 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Making my poster for No Kings Day. Do you think this will fit?
Photo of the Declaration of Independence.
June 14, 2025 at 4:47 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
"Her mother was dearer to her than ever." - #JaneAusten's Sense and Sensibility.
Happy Mother's Day!
A fashion print from the Regency era shows a fashionably dressed mother in a white gown with a white cap with flowers gazing lovingly at her toddler as the child plays on her lap.
May 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
And we're glad the younger generations are paying attention and getting serious, too! I'm so encouraged.
The cartoon shows two young women standing by a cosmetics counter. One says to the other, "For Mother's Day, my mom would like the activism of her youth to not be for nothing."
May 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925.
The original cover of The Great Gatsby, featuring a painting by Francis Cugat, Celestial Eyes, showing a flapper's disembodied eyes and mouth over a city skyline.
April 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
At least when the Tulip Bubble crashed they had flowers left to show for it.
19th century painting depicting Tulip Mania, by Johannes Hinderikus Egenberger
April 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Protester at an anti-Trump rally holds a sign with a penguin on it with the text, "We waddle at dawn."
April 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Cutest Mr. Darcy ever.
Soccer the Dog, a Jack Russell terrier, is dressed as Mr. Darcy in the Wishbone adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
March 28, 2025 at 6:47 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about

#ShakespeareSunday
Julius Cesar, Act 1, Scene 2.
George IV caricature, "Voluptuary under the horrors of Digestion. George is depicted as a dissolute, overweight man, surrounded by luxurious food and drink and picking his teeth with a fork. The caricature calls to mind modern dissolute, overweight, would-be kings.
March 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Welp,I guess Jane Austen is too woke.
List of words banned by the Trump admission as too "woke,"with the word "prejudice" circled.
March 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
A friend of mine sends this info on the postcard-writing campaign for March 15, #TheIdesofTrump. I wonder how many people will participate?
Screenshots of info on a postcard-writing campaign planned to be sent to Trump. Text reads: On March 15th, many people will mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses our opposition to him. And we, in vast numbers, from all corners of the world, will overwhelm the man with his unpopularity and failure. We will show the media and the politicians what standing with him — and against us — means. And most importantly, we will bury the White House post office in pink slips, all informing Donnie that he’s fired. Each of us — every protester from every march, each congress calling citizen, every boycotter, volunteer, donor, and petition signer — if each of us writes even a single postcard and we put them all in the mail on the same day, March 15th, well: you do the math. No alternative fact or Russian translation will explain away our record-breaking, officially-verifiable, warehouse-filling flood of fury. Hank Aaron currently holds the record for fan mail, having received 900,000 pieces in a year. We’re setting a new record: over a million pieces in a day, with not a single nice thing to say. So sharpen your wit, unsheathe your writing implements, and see if your sincerest ill-wishes can pierce Donald’s famously thin skin. Prepare for March 15th, 2025, a day hereafter to be known as #TheIdesOfTrump Write one postcard. Write a dozen! Take a picture and post it on social media tagged with #TheIdesOfTrump ! Spread the word! Everyone on Earth should let Donnie know how he’s doing. They can’t build a wall high enough to stop the mail. Then, on March 15th, mail your messages to: President Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
March 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Apparently mocking empathy is a thing now?
Book with the title "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion."
March 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Greek mythology, Stephen King, and Jane Austen. Adding sci fi and fantasy for the complete Jane Austen Venn diagram sets. Sci-fi and Jane Austen, you say? As proof, I offer this Google search for the term "sci-fi" that turns up Austen's Juvenilia in the first results. IYKYK.
A screen shot of Google search results for the term "sci-fi." The results are sci-fi, sci-fi movies, sci-fi TV shows, the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and Volume the First of Jane Austen's juvenilia.
February 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Finished sewing the clasp on my version of a Georgian/early-Victorian bead-embroidered velvet ribbon cuff bracelet. The gold-plated brass clasp echoes the affordable faux gold pinchbeck clasp of the original. These cuffs were pretty trinkets, not fine jewery!
Kim Wilson's version of a 19th-century velvet cuff bracelet with pink and yellow flowers with green leaves embroidered on a wide black velvet ribbon and finished with a gold-plated brass clasp.
February 24, 2025 at 12:58 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Antique jewelry craft project: my version of a Georgian/early-Victorian bead-embroidered velvet ribbon cuff bracelet. Using modern #11 seed beads works up faster than the original microbeads. Now to sew on the clasp!
Kim Wilson's version of a 19th-century velvet cuff bracelet with pink and yellow flowers with green leaves embroidered on a wide black velvet ribbon. The bracelet is still in the embroidery hoop, waiting to be finished.
February 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Fixed it. What the actual hell, PBS?
Screenshot of PBS article doing an apparently serious treatment of Trump's plan to conquer Canada. The article is corrected in red to read "conquer" instead of "transform Canada into a state."
February 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Fixed it.
February 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
kimwilsonauthor.bsky.social
Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
Actress Tippi Hedren and children flee murderous attacking crows in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
February 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM