When you’re applying for PhDs, people give you advice including ‘be aware it’s a lonely time’. I figured they meant the subject - I mean, fairly obviously very few people are studying your topic (it’s supposed to be original, right?) I was sure I could handle not having many people knowing the specific ins and […]

My paper on Sarah Waters’ adaptation of the music hall novel has been accepted for a conference! It will be at Lampeter University in August - details are here.
This is so exciting! I was reading my email on the sofa at home over Easter weekend, and literally screamed out loud. I was on cloud nine […]

Often stinging in her books towards characters she doesn’t like, sometimes worse in her letters:
“Only think of Mrs Holder’s being dead!—Poor woman, she has done the only thing in the World she could possibly do, to make one cease to abuse her” (14 October 1813).
Mrs Hall of Sherbourn was brought to bed yesterday of a […]