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Deidre Lynch
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She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: deidrelynch.org
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Attention Mr Woodhouse!

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Ah! That makes sense, I guess.

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Really ? But Canadians do. You think they might have noticed

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But don’t forget butter tarts!

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Please report back so that we can compare notes

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Purchased yesterday! though irrationally I decided to hide my shame at having succumbed to temptation by concealing Rooney’s novel amidst a pile of other books. The bookseller flattered me by declaring my book stack instagram worthy & took a photo to record the moment😂

Book stack with Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo on the bottom : also Marianne Brooker’s Intervals; Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband; & Maya Wilkinson’s Lublin
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News about the belated appearance of these six little dots has made my day! #19thc

Goggled conservator belatedly adding the diaereses to the Brontës' names on their monument at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
"It's a big news week for the Brontë heritage industry as on Thursday conservators went into Westminster Abbey to right a terrible wrong on the Brontë memorial in Poets' Corner. Installed in 1939, the stone memorial honours the three sisters Charlotte, Emily and Anne but--a knife to the heart of production tenants everywhere--left off the two dots over the "e" in the family name.
Those dots are called diaereses, we learn, and after a successful appeal to the abbey . . . the correct spelling of the name was restored, above the memorial's legend, "courage to endure."
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Please help spread the word! The English Department at Harvard is hoping to hire an assistant professor of post-45 Anglophone literature. I'm not on the committee, but would be happy to answer your questions. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14143

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True ! Jane Austen never wrote that !

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Me--in a swoon at the end of week 4 of the semester, though I don't think I am going to be rescued. (Also, more precisely, the frontispiece for the 1828 French translation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. I like Willoughby's hunting garb and alarmed expression.)

Black and white engraving of a young man, carrying down a steep hill, an unconscious young woman in a thin muslin gown. He has dropped his hunting rifle; his hunting dog looks on with a puzzled expression. In the background one sees the cottage that is their destination. The book has been retitled Raison et Sensibilité.
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Deidre Lynch
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: deidrelynch.org
1.7k followers1.4k following2.1k posts