Dr Rita J. Dashwood
@rjdashwood
Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Birmingham for the @bars.bsky.social conference has been lovely so far - nice hotel, nice food, and nice people (including a return to the Birmingham and Midland Institute, with whom I worked as part of a previous project at the University of Liverpool!)
Bonus content: more Lizzy + a cute tiny horse I saw the other day
Lizzy says rest and recover ❤️ Very much looking forward to seeing you when you are better!
So happy to see my article, ‘A Much Maligned but Clever Lady: Mary Verney, Who Saved Claydon House,’ published in the new issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine. Read to find out why the first thing that Mary Verney did when she inherited Claydon House was to tear down two thirds of it 😉
Happy 250th anniversary to the greatest author who has ever lived. It’s only two days before my viva anniversary and I can’t think of anyone else I would rather have spent four years with - and many others before and since. Here’s to many more years of having fun with Austen 🥳
I had so much fun teaching a seminar on Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations for an MA Book History class at Ghent University this afternoon, concluding with an analysis of my favourite modern reimagining, @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social's Fire Island 😊 #janeausten #prideandprejudice #fireislandmovie
Two new invitations to submit to this journal just this week. All because of the article I wrote with @drbeard79.bsky.social, ‘Sadist, Land Shark, and Reptile: Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA.' I'll be sure to mention this the next time I'm asked about my research impact at future interviews 😜
So grateful to the wonderful people at Shibden Hall for showing me around and sharing their knowledge of Anne and the house during my visit 😊 (I highly recommend visiting it during Halloween 🎃 ) #shibdenhouse #annelister #halifax
Loved visiting Halifax during my research trip to see Shibden Hall and Anne Lister’s letters at West Yorkshire Archive Services as part of my project, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900, at Ghent University 😊 (And yes, I did get the fish soap 😁) #annelister #shibdenhall #halifax
Day 2 of the #GlobalAusten250 Conference. The sea witch (aka hay fever) stole my voice, which means that @drbeard79.bsky.social delivered the drag show of a lifetime by reading my paper for me on my FWO-funded research. Had a great time listening to his own fabulous paper on Netflix’s Persuasion!
In Southampton and excited to see everyone at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference tomorrow!
You co-write one article with @drbeard79.bsky.social about Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA. with the word ‘shark’ in the title and this is what happens 😂
2 years ago I was in Brussels for my FWO interview 😊 Cut to right now and I’m halfway through my project at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900 (Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)
Now that the birthday of the person this was a gift for has passed, I can share the gorgeous commission that my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social made for me 🤩
My gorgeous birthday present, made by my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social 😍💛🦆
Such a great article by Ted Chiang on AI: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
So happy to say that Reading the Romantic Ridiculous, the book @drbeard79 and I wrote together, is now out with Routledge! 😃 www.routledge.com/Reading-the-...
Thank you so much to the Jane Austen Society for what is (as far as I know) the first review of my book, Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen 😊 It would mean the world to me if you could ask your library to order it: www.peterlang.com/document/125...
When you write an article where you mention you don’t have one of these, so naturally your boyfriend… 😁 Article here: jasna.org/publications...
I'm so happy to be able to celebrate the birthday of the GOAT, #JaneAusten, by announcing that my new article, "Witches and Jedi Guardians: Jane Austen's Portraits Then and Now," is now out in the latest issue of @jasnaorg's journal, #Persuasions: jasna.org/publications...
I can’t believe I FINALLY managed to order one of these in time!!! 🥳😁