Ruth Scobie
Mostly eighteenth-century; she/her. Writing a book: NOVELS AND THE RISE OF CELEBRITY, which is not about the rise of the novel
- OK but there is at least a case to be made that Pride and Prejudice is totally set during the French Revolution?
- Tom Stoppard spoke at an event I worked a decade ago. He insisted on being introduced to all the event staff, even the lanyard-wearing admins like me, and repeated everyone's names back to them while looking into their eyes. Most charming person I've ever met and it's not even close
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- Accidentally bought Goth potatoes
- Love how the right-hand column reads like a list of recently elected Reform councillors
- Lots of things in the British Museum were stolen and should be returned! Lots of things weren't! Uncritically repeating 'Everything in the British Museum is stolen' reinforces the imperialist narrative that only the British had agency over a passive monolithic Other! Hope this helps
- Of course they had to cover up what happened to all the children at Lowood School. They didn't want panic to spread
- The general reader can improve their experience of most nineteenth-century novels by assuming that the Angel in the House character is secretly murderous. Jane Eyre (obvs). Esther Summerson. Fanny Price slipping cyanide into the clear soup. JANE FAIRFAX
- Reposted by Ruth ScobieIf you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
- Mine was an (otherwise unobjectionable) novel set in the nineteenth century in which a professor called a boring task "like folding laundry". 1) Nineteenth-century profs did not do laundry 2) only people with modern washer-driers think *folding* is the worst bit of laundry
- Look at this cat I'm catsitting, he looks like Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Mary Robinson already making fun of AI bros in 1799
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- This is the last page of the first Penguin edition of Virginia Woolf's Orlando [Pixies voice] GOT ME A BLOOMSBURY AH-HA-HA-HO SLICING UP MARS BARS AH-HA-HA-HO
- Her biographer says of Elizabeth Inchbald that "she was at last forced to give up her determination never to play Lady Sneerwell in 'The School for Scandal'" in 1778. Does anyone have any ideas what Inchbald objected to? I'd have thought Lady S was quite a fun role
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- Yes. I loved uni teaching and I think I was quite good at it, but after ten years the precarity was making me miserable and exhausted, so I stopped. So many senior people seemed to find that surprising
- An older relative, who is not and does not look like Alan Bennett, has been mistaken for Alan Bennett several times, including once by Jonathan Miller
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- It's a strange truth known to veterans of the great Flipped Classroom nonsense of the 2010s that the loudest voices shouting that stale UK higher education pedagogy needs radical change always turn out to have horrifying teaching practice that they insist is universal
- Does Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon have a niche Bluesky afterlife yet? Can we start one? It's got a reputation as unreadable, but that's only true if you're not in the market for postmodern jokes about, like, Sir Eyre Coote
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- The vet told me that Doris "has the kidneys of a much younger cat" so obviously I said "well I'll tell her she must give them back", and he earnestly replied "no I just meant for comparison" in case you ever wondered what those Bluesky commenters are like in real life
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- Ipsita Chakravarty isn't very active on Bluesky but her new book on storytelling and oral history in Kashmir is beautiful and devastating and you should consider pre-ordering www.hurstpublishers.com/book/dapaan/
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- The eighteenth-century actress Kitty Clive once described the eighteenth-century actress Mary Ann Yates as "totering about to much, and flumping down to often", and in other news I am the eighteenth-century actress Mary Ann Yates
- Reposted by Ruth ScobieGood news! My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social ! Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025. Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world! #C18L #18thcentury DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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- Someone with more disposable income than me please buy these letters and revel in all the beautiful FOLDS and SEALING WAX: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
