rebeccashipp.bsky.social
doctoral researcher - writing on walking, C19/C20 rural cultures, land access, class identities — editor of the thomas hardy journals ✨🐅🌴
👤 Joined on 10 April 2025
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@rebeccashipp.bsky.socialIn many ways, this work is the product of my time finding refuge in Philly's "green spots" and "common-places," which helped me think about Dickens's figuration of urbanized rusticity and the novel's indebtedness to Leigh Hunt's "Streets of London" sketches.
Show PostMy article on Bleak House is now out in Victorian Literature and Culture!
Show PostIf you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
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Show Post#OtD 19 Jun 1843 a crowd of around 4500 "Rebecca" rioters with blackened faces and dressed as women gathered and attacked the Carmarthen workhouse in Wales, and set about destroying it. It took the arrival of a unit of the British army to disperse them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9110...
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