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Ike Rosen · @IkeRosen
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“The wind was blowing drearily. The lamps looked pale, and shook as if they were cold. There was a distant glimmer of something that was not quite darkness, rather than of light, in the sky; and foreboding night was shivering and restless, as the dying are who make a troubled end.”

“Dombey and son” Charles Dickens - 1846

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Ike Rosen · @IkeRosen
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“A dirtier or more wretched place he had never seen. The street was very narrow and muddy, and the air was impregnated with filthy odours. There were a good many small shops; but the only stock in trade appeared to be heaps of children, who, even at that time of night, were crawling in and out at the doors, or screaming from the inside. The sole places that seemed to prosper amid the general blight of the place, were the public-houses; and in them, the lowest orders of Irish were wrangling with might and main. Covered ways and yards, which here and there diverged from the main street, disclosed little knots of houses, where drunken men and women were positively wallowing in filth; and from several of the door-ways, great ill-looking fellows were cautiously emerging, bound, to all appearance, on no very well-disposed or harmless errands.”

“Oliver Twist” Charles Dickens - 1837

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Irene · @elmerot
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Book launch to end the conference: a corpus-based dictionary of Shakespeare! Two volumes out today, three more to come. Information about which plays certain words occur more in, which kinds of characters that use it more often, etc.
wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang






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Wim Van Mierlo · @wvmierlo
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Yesterday, the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University hosted a seminar on "Editing Aphra Behn's Fiction", organized by my wonderful colleague Elaine Hobby. The seminar was recorded and is now available at t.co/6KE7AEzSkt.

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Nenad Knezevic · @grammaticus
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I do love my Brontës! 🤓

In the latest post on the blog you can read a selection of extracts from "Agnes Grey", Anne Brontë's first book, published in 1847, along with a few introductory notes + links to free ebook versions of the novel.

grammaticus.blog/2023/06/05/qu

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Katharine Cleland's study of clandestine marriage in Irregular Unions: Clandestine Marriage in Early Modern English Literature enhances readers' understanding of such marriage by showing its literary importance. worldhistory.org/review/354/ir

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Arthinkal Magazine · @arthinkal
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Who was Joseph Conrad and what is his influence on literature?

Check out this post on Conrad and his classic novella, Heart of Darkness: arthinkal.substack.com/p/on-jo

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