debsiddoway.bsky.social
Author with an interest in literature and the law. Dickens enthusiast, obsessed with divorce law history, and book lover. I have a little dog called Brontë.
👤 Joined on 09 October 2023
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@debsiddoway.bsky.socialI was handed little Mario by a kind man who’d rescued him after another man on drugs had beaten him black and blue and broke his leg. After a long rehab he found a home in England. He is currently on his holidays with his family in Cornwall. Super Mario lives In the moment ❤️
Show PostPublication day! "Dickens and the Classics" is out. My four year labor about the everyday classics that permeated the lives of Victorians and how allusion let Dickens (and his illustrators) explore race, sex, and empire. 70 illustrations! Discount code: GLR AT8 www.bloomsbury.com/us/dickens-a...
Show PostWe all have one. Mine is "that". :-)
Show PostUnsolicited writing advice, no. 5: You have a word that you overuse. Find it. Remove it wherever you can. Now make a nice cup of tea and enjoy the sensation of freedom.
Show PostFootball woes in Aarhus dispelled by a cold plunge, and three fabulous papers this morning on Dickensian ‘enlightenment’; Bleak House’s Jo’s knowing ‘nothink’; and performance, dandyism, and deceit. Thanks to Nora Schalkers, Matthias Bauer, Céline Prest, and Anita Fernandez Young #DickensSociety2026
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