So lovely to be in Glasgow for #BARS2024 British Association for Romantic Studies, where I will be presenting both on Joel Kim Booster’s Fire Island as a reimagining of Pride and Prejudice for my panel with Andrew McInnes on Wednesday, and on women and property ownership in Jane Austen on Thursday 😊

do any history people know what these are? i found them with my late grandad’s belongings - he owned a picture framer’s shop in the southside of Glasgow. Dated 1902 in pencil. Showing pictures about workers rights i think ?

That’s a wrap on the in-person component of #BARS2024! Thank you to all who came for making it such a fantastic few days - a wealth of panels, fabulous music, friends and colleagues old and new, and several happy reminders of some of the many beautiful buildings in our city 🥂

Shame on St. Andrews University - removing the rector from the governing body because she stated the truth - Israel is committing genocide and apartheid - but somehow such comments are deemed to be potentially encouraging antisemitism and against peace! theguardian.com/education/arti…

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Week 1 at Chawton House: lots of reading, walking, ice lollies, and a pilgrimage to Winchester Cathedral :-)

Our Summer Fellows are hard at work in the Reading Rooms. One of this week's discoveries was a book with the pages still uncut: Gisborne's 1797 Enquiry into the Duties of Men in the Higher and Middle Classes of Society. Find out more about their projects: chawtonhouse.org/2024/06/2024-v…

‘Slug’ by Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799), who was a Japanese painter of the Maruyama school. Medium: Ink on paper, Edo Period.

1/ This is the most persistent myth of academia I have encountered in my career: there is no disinterested position from which to objectively study/teach history, culture, etc. You have to be white to believe this. The medieval university we inherited was political & still is.

have any of my janeite followers been to see the musical Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World? Austen is a character in it and I'm wondering if it is worth my while to catch the train into London to see it

Had a varied start to the week in the reading room! Richardson, the first ever Jane Austen fanfiction, her ‘lost sex scenes,’ and a 1996 adaptation of her adaptation of Richardson for JASNA- meta

St Nicholas Church in the grounds of Chawton House where Cassandra Austen and her mother and buried 📝⛪️

Just a time-honoured way for a Frenchman to sign off his personal correspondence 🥰

I’m finally home! What an amazing month. So thankful to everyone at Chawton House for making it amazing. My first experience of an institution that is woman centred - every day I was surrounded by portraits of women all over the walls. So beautiful and I will never forget it 😊

A nice surprise was also waiting on my desk! My first publication, an essay in Tammy Powley and April Van Camp’s Retelling Jane Austen. In it I compare 2 adaptations of MP, their Fanny, and queer readings 🥳🍾

I've posted the reading list for this course on my website, along with some other miscellaneous updates about my teaching and research. samuelrutherford.com/teaching/

Co-curating this exhibition has been a lovely way to mark the end of the PhD. It's also a great chance to show off some of the fantastic books and collections Bristol Libraries! If you're down in Bristol, check it out!

You can pay a task rabbit to go to an archive for you???? Has anyone ever done this lol