Dinah Roe

@preraphsrule

C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website for poems by caregivers.

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Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· 24d

That's awful! Rio is devastated, and hopes you feel better soon. She recommends this recovery position.

Calico Cornish Rex sleeping - curled up like a ball with paw over eyes.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· 26d

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, played by a young Gary Oldman (left) and Tim Roth (right),dressed in Elizabethan garb and staring in puzzlement (from Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead).

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jul 12

'Journeys end in lovers meeting' 😱😱😱

Image of a floral apron with frilly shoulders and an oversize bow at the waist splayed on a wall. Caption reads: 'Hill House x Williams Sonoma Aprons'.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jul 10

I mean...

Black and white still of a young Kiefer Sutherland wearing leather gloves and a trenchcoat & looking fakely repentant in 'The Lost Boys'.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jul 9

Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' (Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, 2010). Still thinking about it today - and every time I visit this TM it reappears for me.

Photo of Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds

Quote below describing this is from Tate Modern

"Made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. However realistic they may seem, these life-sized sunflower seed husks are in fact intricately hand-crafted in porcelain.

Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small-scale workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape."

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jul 4

Celebrate this 4th of July with Ms. Ginny Stroud, critical thinker, teacher, & role model in 'Dazed and Confused'✊

A teacher stands in front of her class and says:

'Okay guys, one more thing, this summer when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don't forget what you're celebrating, and that's the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn't want to pay their taxes'.

Dazed and Confused 1993

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jul 3

The government of Turkey will rue the day.

Patti Lupone in Anything Goes, tap-dancing in sailor's costume, including cap. Winking.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jun 30

"Done because we are too menny."

James Marriott
Self-education is still the key to a happy life

Fixation on university degrees means we've forgotten our grand tradition of autodidacts - now's the time for a revival.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jun 29

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jun 29

✊

The humanities underpin everything that truly matters: democratic citizenship, ethical decision-making, creativity, intellectual resilience. They are of critical importance in a world shaped by artificial intelligence, misinformation, geopolitical uncertainty and existentially threatening climate change, and where social media have enabled the circulation of dogmatic, ill-informed, assertion at the expense of evidence-based argument: where what is 'true' seems to depend not on the facts but who makes the claim.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jun 25

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jun 11

I like to imagine this subheading on the British Academy website was written by like the Muppets or maybe the Witches of Eastwick.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Jun 10

Very important content warning on a books website (for parents).

Language: There is language in this book.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· May 20

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· May 9

Amazing! I'm celebrating with Collinson's illustration for his poem, 'The Child Jesus', printed in the Pre-Raphaelite magazine, 'The Germ'. Who else would put Jesus on the beach on the Isle of Wight? victorianweb.org/painting/col...

From The Victorian Web
"The etching features six children in addition to Jesus in the early angular awkward style of Pre-Raphaelite drawings from the early 1850s. Collinson has surprisingly shown Nazareth as being on the seashore, which it obviously wasn't. In the right background can be seen the buildings of a typical village of the Holy Land. Five cypress trees can be seen on the headland, echoed by five olive trees beneath them, which surely alludes to the five sorrowful mysteries (Newman 49) The large shells in the foreground are symbolic of pilgrimage. The young Jesus has a crown of hawthorn flowers on his head surrounded by a cruciform halo. This garland was a gift from John the Baptist and is symbolic of Christ's later crown of thorns worn at his crucifixion. The standing boy with a halo, who is undoubtedly intended to represent John the Baptist, hands Jesus a cross with a banner reading in gothic script "ecce Agnus Dei" [behold the lamb of God]. One young boy kneels reverently at Jesus's feet, his left hand holding Jesus's right hand. A girl holds up a baby for Jesus to bless. Two other children kneel in the background holding flowers, which likely also have symbolic meaning."

https://victorianweb.org/painting/collinson/drawings/1.html

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· May 8

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey. Wrong answers only.

Austin Powers opening dance number, Mike Myers in centre, surrounded by real dancers in loud outfits.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· May 5

I don't think they've thought this build-statues-of-billionaires thing through.

Toppled statue of Edward Colston being chucked into Bristol Harbour by ebullient protestors.

Protestors rolling toppled, graffiti-covered statue of Edward Colston along the street in Bristol.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Apr 23

Still of Parker Posey, seated, gesturing towards the door (from the film, 'Kicking and Screaming').

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Apr 16

The algorithm is calling me out today.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Apr 13

So I'm sitting poolside at my kid's swim lesson. A woman comes up to me to say she doesn't know whether I did it on purpose, but my pink crocs match my book and I look really cool! (I did not do it on purpose & I never look cool, but it made me feel so good). Here's to the kindness of strangers!

This is the book I was reading - My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh. The title, author's name, and blurb are hot pink.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Apr 1

1st April: Okay, Christina, it's April Fools' Day, which means it's time for fun, practical jokes, and general tomfoolery. What have you got? Christina Rossetti:

April 1
A Castle-Builder's World

"The line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness' - Isaiah xxxiv.11
Unripe harvest there hath none to reap it
From the misty gusty place,
Unripe vineyard there hath none to keep it
In unprofitable space.
Living men and women are not found there,
Only masks in flocks and shoals;
Flesh-and-bloodless hazy masks surround there,
Ever wavering orbs and poles;
Flesh-and-bloodless vapid masks abound there,
Shades of bodies without souls.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Mar 29

"No television program has ever succeeded, or even tried, to represent what a college seminar discussion is actually like; no sitcom has ever captured the boring nastiness of a faculty meeting." Community: Hold my beer

7 characters from the TV show 'Community' gathered in an open doorway & looking miffed.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Mar 26

Important Pre-Raphaelite tat alert! (I covet every inch of these).

Socks adorned with Dante Gabriel Rossetti's picture: 'The Day Dream', in which a brunette in a long dress (model is Jane Morris), is seated in a tree reading a book.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Mar 25

Mark the Feast of the Annunciation with Dante Gabriel Rossetti's glorious 'Ecce Ancilla Domini!', which is my favourite annunciation picture because it's so attentive to how young the Virgin is and how she might have felt. #PreRaphaelite

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Mar 25

Gorgeous! Thank you for sharing. It reminds me of this Christina Rossetti poem, 'Balm in Gilead'

Balm in Gilead

Heartsease I found, where Love-lies-bleeding
Empurpled all the ground:
Whatever flowers I missed unheeding,

Heartsease I found.
Yet still my garden mound
Stood sore in need of watering, weeding,
And binding growths unbound.

Ah, when shades fell to light succeeding
I scarcely dared look round:
"Love-lies-bleeding" was all my pleading,
Heartsease I found.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Mar 16

Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack'd from side to side; "The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott.

Elizabeth Siddal's illustration for Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott', showing the lady seated before a loom that loosely resembles the one in this article.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Mar 12

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Mar 3

Wow, he plagiarised his own previously plagiarised blogs. Hilarious that he thinks this isn't entirely obvious from the dopey '10 theses' format.

P.S. This post was entirely generated and posted on Substack by agentic AI using my new Claude Code (Opus 4.6) workflow. Make of that what you will.

P.P.S. That is, entirely generated based on my artisanal, hand-crafted human social media posts and thoughts on the topic. So who wrote it, really? You tell me.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Feb 23

Just LOOK at this gorgeous fore-edge painting from Gaetano Polidori's 1919 'Traduzione del lament di Tasso di Lord Byron'. @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social 😍

Fore-edge painting depicting a view of Venice (gondolas, lovely architecture, a colourful gold, red and yellow sky with clouds)

Fore-edge painting depicting a view of Venice (gondolas, lovely architecture, a colourful gold, red and yellow sky with clouds). Seller's hands holding the book to display the picture are in the image.

Dinah Roe@preraphsrule· Feb 17

Celebrate Pancake Day with Christina Rossetti's 'Mix a pancake', illustrated by Arthur Hughes.