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Dorothy Richardson is here, @dorothyrichardson.bsky.social (via @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social)

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Upcoming Raphael Samuel History Centre lecture by Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social: "Decolonization’s Discontents: Unfinished Revolutions in the Age of Independence" Thurs 6th March 2025, 5pm, @qmul.bsky.social. Followed by a wine reception. Book here! decolonizationsdisco... @rshc.bsky.social

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@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

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I’m just off to steal wood from the hedge of the golf club.

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The sun still shines hot on London & has, over against it, a sky of Mediterranean blue. But the north-easter, rattling the leaves down, tells a different tale. Everyone we meet has returned from a desert

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This Saturday London Modernism Seminar invites you to 1 March 2025, 3:00PM - 5:00PM Queer Modernisms Eveline Kilian Humbolt University, Berlin Queering Daphne du Maurier Lloyd Meadhbh Houston University of Cambridge Queer Modernisms and the Politics of Public Health ies.sas.ac.uk/events/queer...

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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Munificent, magnificent of you to make me a picture from the midst of your bath Sulphur bath – nay nay Lethe oh divine forgetfulness. To HD.

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Work piles up undone. But one must, from time to time, have a feast of social life.

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The next London Modernism Seminar 1 March 2025, 3:00PM - 5:00PM Queer Modernisms Eveline Kilian (Humbolt University, Berlin Lloyd Meadhbh Houston (University of Cambridge) Hybrid via Zoom and in Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street. @ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

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Tomorrow Saturday 1 February London Modernism Seminar Political moods Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh) Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg) Zoom and Rm 243 Second Floor, Senate House ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond... ies.sas.ac.uk @ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

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all children should be called plain & simple miracle. And their mothers should wear festive little crowns. To Louise Morgan Theis

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@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social First London Modernism Seminar of 2025 Saturday 1 February Political moods Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh) Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg) Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond... ies.sas.ac.uk

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one must commit a crime now & again to keep one’s hand in. To Louise Morgan Theis 1926

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First London Modernism Seminar of 2025 Saturday 1 February Political moods Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh), Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg) Hybrid via Zoom and in Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond...

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@modernistudies.bsky.social

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Then, Now and Beyond – Lessons of the 1981 HE cuts Are we heading back to the 80s in HE? Revisiting the university funding cuts of 40 years ago there some notable similarities and possibly some lessons that can be learned. wonderfulhighered.com/2025/01/20/t...

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Tea parties rage here. Strange young people, boys & girls send m.s. & call. Letters multiply.

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New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

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‘You could think of Peter Kennard as part of a renewed wave of graphic art and satire in Britain alongside Gerald Scarfe and the makers of “Spitting Image”. But Kennard’s motivations and context were quite different.’ @briangdillon.bsky.social at the Whitechapel: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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'Politicians with aspiration head to the White Cliffs of Dover for a publicity shot. Such scenes are designed to signal politicians in control of the border, and getting their hands dirty.' Rob Waters on the image of the 'small boat' in British immigration politics: www.historyworkshop....

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New PhD position on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project on political polarization: fully funded + ~20k tax free yearly stipend. Deadline: Feb 14th! Link to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI246/p...

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I wait for the evening and the wine and that's all.

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We are asked to join a little party of people who are dolce far nient-ing in a Sussex garden, day & night. At midnight they all go down unclothed to bathe in the faintly luminous waves &, returning, talk till dawn. Sleep through the day. It sounds tempting. To Bryher July 1928

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The state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯 Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Always at this darkest time of the year, upon the fitting sombre background, visions of spring & summer come brightly into view. We greet them & turn away to earn the right to greet the actualities in their own good time. December 1928

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Participants from #NWiMS - do consider submitting a version of your paper to The Modernist Review! Details below:

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Trying a new term: "Capricratic" - combining "capricious" with the Greek "kratos" (rule/power), suggesting RULE BY WHIM - Capricracy (noun) - a system of capricious rule - Capricrat (noun) - one who rules by whim - Capricratically (adverb) - in an arbitrarily authoritarian manner

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After a very troublous & busy year I at last have a little time at least to look through a mass of unanswered letters amongst which I find yours, which shall, I trust shortly, receive some kind of reply.

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I would have written before to thank you for your Easter greeting, but Im Westen Nichts Neues rather knocked me out. Every page, almost every line, of that terrible document is stamped on my mind & the time before I read it now seems very far away. To Bryher, April 1929

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Very much enjoyed #NWiMS yesterday! Met lots of lovely people and was treated to a great variety of papers. Huge thanks to @matthewtaunton.bsky.social and @modernistudies.bsky.social for organising

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I like your letters, so much. Something hard & clear in them, sea under shadow of rock, with more rock gleaming through its colour – Your sentences go on indefinitely after they are finished. Richardson to E.B.C. Jones 1928

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All the reviewers say my work won’t stand quotation & that's a lie. Richardson to EBC Jones 1928

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In a general way I believe readers should “keep their illusions” with regard to authors they like to read. There are many records to teach us that writers are boring people, banal beyond belief, (see Proust). To Bernice Elliott 1928.

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steadily gaining ground, getting less Gertrude Steinish, less steeple-brow, & keener & keener, & keener Richardson to Owen Wadsworth April 1928 (about the film magazine Close Up)

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Art demands what, to women, current civilization won’t give. There is for a Dostoyevsky writing against time on the corner of a crowded kitchen table a greater possibility of detachment than for a woman artist no matter how placed.

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Haven't touched a drop for a month. Won't it be fine when I do.

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My books are not narrative in the usual sense – maybe characterization and story are incidental to the effort to express life at first hand. Miriam’s story is her Pilgrimage, to be shared or not according to the disposition of the reader.

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Spring’s been here. Pines pouring incense into mild moist air. Birds building. Two days heavy snow. Midwinter again. Getting used to working in a beehive. Porous matchboard partitions. Smoking-room next door, French lessons in the morning, tea & bridge afternoon & evening.

Dorothy Richardson is here, @dorothyrichardson.bsky.social (via @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social)

Upcoming Raphael Samuel History Centre lecture by Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social: "Decolonization’s Discontents: Unfinished Revolutions in the Age of Independence" Thurs 6th March 2025, 5pm, @qmul.bsky.social. Followed by a wine reception. Book here! decolonizationsdisco... @rshc.bsky.social

@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

I’m just off to steal wood from the hedge of the golf club.

The sun still shines hot on London & has, over against it, a sky of Mediterranean blue. But the north-easter, rattling the leaves down, tells a different tale. Everyone we meet has returned from a desert

This Saturday London Modernism Seminar invites you to 1 March 2025, 3:00PM - 5:00PM Queer Modernisms Eveline Kilian Humbolt University, Berlin Queering Daphne du Maurier Lloyd Meadhbh Houston University of Cambridge Queer Modernisms and the Politics of Public Health ies.sas.ac.uk/events/queer...

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Munificent, magnificent of you to make me a picture from the midst of your bath Sulphur bath – nay nay Lethe oh divine forgetfulness. To HD.

Work piles up undone. But one must, from time to time, have a feast of social life.

The next London Modernism Seminar 1 March 2025, 3:00PM - 5:00PM Queer Modernisms Eveline Kilian (Humbolt University, Berlin Lloyd Meadhbh Houston (University of Cambridge) Hybrid via Zoom and in Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street. @ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Tomorrow Saturday 1 February London Modernism Seminar Political moods Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh) Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg) Zoom and Rm 243 Second Floor, Senate House ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond... ies.sas.ac.uk @ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

all children should be called plain & simple miracle. And their mothers should wear festive little crowns. To Louise Morgan Theis

@ies-sas.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social First London Modernism Seminar of 2025 Saturday 1 February Political moods Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh) Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg) Zoom and Room 243 Second Floor, Senate House ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond... ies.sas.ac.uk

one must commit a crime now & again to keep one’s hand in. To Louise Morgan Theis 1926

First London Modernism Seminar of 2025 Saturday 1 February Political moods Anna Vaninskaya (University of Edinburgh), Benjamin Kohlmann (Universität Regensburg) Hybrid via Zoom and in Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU ies.sas.ac.uk/seminar/lond...

@modernistudies.bsky.social

Then, Now and Beyond – Lessons of the 1981 HE cuts Are we heading back to the 80s in HE? Revisiting the university funding cuts of 40 years ago there some notable similarities and possibly some lessons that can be learned. wonderfulhighered.com/2025/01/20/t...

Tea parties rage here. Strange young people, boys & girls send m.s. & call. Letters multiply.

New book series, UNIVERSITY REIMAGINED, edited by @sadiahabib.bsky.social and me, with thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social, & esp. commissioning editor @lauramswift.bsky.social. BOOK PROPOSALS NOW WELCOME - please get in touch if you have an idea. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/unive...

'Politicians with aspiration head to the White Cliffs of Dover for a publicity shot. Such scenes are designed to signal politicians in control of the border, and getting their hands dirty.' Rob Waters on the image of the 'small boat' in British immigration politics: www.historyworkshop....

New PhD position on my UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project on political polarization: fully funded + ~20k tax free yearly stipend. Deadline: Feb 14th! Link to apply: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI246/p...

I wait for the evening and the wine and that's all.

We are asked to join a little party of people who are dolce far nient-ing in a Sussex garden, day & night. At midnight they all go down unclothed to bathe in the faintly luminous waves &, returning, talk till dawn. Sleep through the day. It sounds tempting. To Bryher July 1928

The state of humanities funding in the US is shocking. For every $1000 the feds spend on research, humanities receive a $1.30 🤯 Of the ~$54 billion in research the federal govt funds in U.S. higher ed, only $69 million goes to the humanities (=0.13% of fed total) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Always at this darkest time of the year, upon the fitting sombre background, visions of spring & summer come brightly into view. We greet them & turn away to earn the right to greet the actualities in their own good time. December 1928

Participants from #NWiMS - do consider submitting a version of your paper to The Modernist Review! Details below:

Trying a new term: "Capricratic" - combining "capricious" with the Greek "kratos" (rule/power), suggesting RULE BY WHIM - Capricracy (noun) - a system of capricious rule - Capricrat (noun) - one who rules by whim - Capricratically (adverb) - in an arbitrarily authoritarian manner

After a very troublous & busy year I at last have a little time at least to look through a mass of unanswered letters amongst which I find yours, which shall, I trust shortly, receive some kind of reply.

I would have written before to thank you for your Easter greeting, but Im Westen Nichts Neues rather knocked me out. Every page, almost every line, of that terrible document is stamped on my mind & the time before I read it now seems very far away. To Bryher, April 1929

Very much enjoyed #NWiMS yesterday! Met lots of lovely people and was treated to a great variety of papers. Huge thanks to @matthewtaunton.bsky.social and @modernistudies.bsky.social for organising

I like your letters, so much. Something hard & clear in them, sea under shadow of rock, with more rock gleaming through its colour – Your sentences go on indefinitely after they are finished. Richardson to E.B.C. Jones 1928

All the reviewers say my work won’t stand quotation & that's a lie. Richardson to EBC Jones 1928

In a general way I believe readers should “keep their illusions” with regard to authors they like to read. There are many records to teach us that writers are boring people, banal beyond belief, (see Proust). To Bernice Elliott 1928.

steadily gaining ground, getting less Gertrude Steinish, less steeple-brow, & keener & keener, & keener Richardson to Owen Wadsworth April 1928 (about the film magazine Close Up)

Art demands what, to women, current civilization won’t give. There is for a Dostoyevsky writing against time on the corner of a crowded kitchen table a greater possibility of detachment than for a woman artist no matter how placed.

Haven't touched a drop for a month. Won't it be fine when I do.

My books are not narrative in the usual sense – maybe characterization and story are incidental to the effort to express life at first hand. Miriam’s story is her Pilgrimage, to be shared or not according to the disposition of the reader.

Spring’s been here. Pines pouring incense into mild moist air. Birds building. Two days heavy snow. Midwinter again. Getting used to working in a beehive. Porous matchboard partitions. Smoking-room next door, French lessons in the morning, tea & bridge afternoon & evening.

www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

NEWS: Research paper on jetties hasn't been pier reviewed.