Emily H
@2emalha
"Happiness is not a potato" - Charlotte Brontë | BA English and Creative Writing | MA Victorian Literature, Art & Culture 🇨🇦🇨🇭🇬🇧
Happy #Pride month! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ To celebrate, I’ll be sharing some of my favourite poems and novels by brilliant LGBT writers for each day of June ✨
Bats Flying across Pine Branch and Full Moon by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1832-33. Medium: Woodblock print.
Charles Ginner's many rooftop vistas are a distinctive theme among the Camden Town painters. This view is probably from a window in his studio in Tadema Street, Chelsea, from around 1912.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
What’s particularly depressing about this is that the opening paragraphs of Bleak House are absolutely brilliant
A 2024 study found that 58 per cent of English majors at two Midwestern universities had so much trouble interpreting the opening paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens that “they would not be able to read the novel on their own.” nyer.cm/enn54m8
“A difficult life is not less worth living than a gentle one.” Like so many others, I was very saddened to hear of Andrea Gibson’s passing earlier this week. Their deceptively simple work carried so much beauty, depth and sympathy.
“In the dry summer field at nightfall, fireflies rise like sparks. Imagine the presence of ghosts flickering, the ghosts of young friends” From Fireflies by Marilynn Kallet ✨
... the Quebec woman who rented a horse-drawn hearse in 1871 just to ride around town while smoking her pipe! ... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Text from the original article: "What will women do next to distinguish themselves, we wonder! A female in Quebec, the other day, perpetrated a…
“Even as you lean over this page, late and alone, it shines: even now in the moment before it disappears.” The Garden by Mark Strand
The series of clifftop pictures above Lamorna Cove in Cornwall Laura Knight painted during the end of WW1, invariably feature women facing away from the viewer - they reflect the preoccupations of the time with the ongoing conflict across the water in Belgium and France.
Some classics for July! For anyone interested in disability in classic literature I'd suggest looking up the 19th century as Dickens, the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Thomas Hardy all engage disability in multiple works 📚
Just finished reading Piranesi this afternoon and truly have never read another book like it
I'm begging everyone who hasn't yet to read this book. The premise, about a man living in an infinite house, is terrifically inventive, and it goes in a direction you don't expect. No other living author writes with such a keen sense of horror & beauty. The book of the decade.
Today is the 203rd anniversary of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s tragic death. He was only 29 when he drowned off the coast of Italy during a violent storm. Read “I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar” (2022), a collection of essays honoring his life and writings. gothickeatspress.com/essays-to-hono…
“How good it felt: to want something and pretend you don’t, and to get it anyway.” A delicious poem for July by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
