SCOTTISH LITERARY REVIEW 17/2 (Autumn/Winter 2025)

The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review is online now via Project MUSE (institutional access required). Print copies will be in the mail to subscribers shortly! Papers range from medieval poetry, through 18th- & 19th-century literature, to Muriel Spark & the Brontës

@litstudies

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55415

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #18thcentury #19thcentury #20thcentury #JamesHogg #RobertBurns #MurielSpark #Brontes

Yes, I am both @DoomsdaysCW and @ShadowPlay . Shadowplay is my non-political account focused on some of my personal interests -- #Brontes, #StarTrek, #DoctorWho, #horror movies and books, #stuffies, etc. But no politics! Feel free to follow me if you're into any of those subjects.

Gaia's Children With Uranus

The Twelve Titans – the first generation of powerful gods

The Three Cyclopes – #Brontes, #Steropes, #Arges

The Three Hecatoncheires – #Cottus, #Briareus, #Gyges

#hellenic #mythology #religion #myths #myth #greek

If you’re a fan of podcasts, there are over a dozen of them dedicated to #JaneAusten and the #Brontës! If I’m missing any, let me know so I can update the list! https://excessivelydiverting.substack.com/p/austen-bronte-newsletter-issue-7-podcasts

On the anniversary of #EmilyBronte 's birth, I thought this would be appropriate! (Cartoon by #KateBeaton)

#BronteSisters #Brontes #CharlotteBronte #AnneBronte #LiteraryHumor

@beexcessivelydiverting , did you see this story? I thought of you when I saw it.

Brontë country designated as one of England’s largest national nature reserves

https://www.optimistdaily.com/2025/05/bronte-country-designated-as-one-of-englands-largest-national-nature-reserves/

#Brontës #BrontëCountry #Nature

Brontë country designated as one of England’s largest national nature reserves | The Optimist Daily

The Bradford Pennine Gateway to protect over 1,200 hectares of moorland, wildlife, and literary heritage while expanding access to nature for local communities.

The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News |

Today's charity shop Puffin finds (from Hereford's superb Oxfam bookshop).

Both new to me, I read half of The Twelve And The Genii on the bus home, what an absolutely lovely book about a boy who finds some old toy soldiers in the attic, which turn out to have belonged to the Brontë children.

Nicholas Fisk - Space Hostages
Pauline Clarke - The Twelve And The Genii

#NowReading #CharityShopFinds #Puffin #Hereford #Brontes

This is absolutely the kind of MildlyInteresting nerdery I love—but are missing diacritical marks the same as mis-spelling, as the Graun insists?

#Writing #literature #EnglishLiterature #Brontes #books
@bookstodon

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/bronte-sisters-dots-names-corrected-westminster-abbey

Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey

Amended memorial to the writers unveiled at Poets’ Corner 85 years after misspelled plaque first installed

The Guardian

#TheBrontës and #Byron: An online course with Dr Sam Hirst.

#TheBrontëParsonageMuseum is excited to be running a second #OnlineCourse with Dr Sam Hirst, a Teaching Associate at Sheffield University, who led our #Brontës and the #Gothic course last year.

https://www.bronte.org.uk/whats-on/1464/the-brontes-and-byron/7018

📚Jane Austen and the Brontes 💻 Issue #21 Upcoming Virtual Events for Fall 2024

Here is a list of of virtual talks and presentations on Austen and the Brontes this fall, The events are free or low cost.