#19thcentury — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #19thcentury, aggregated by home.social.
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“Scottish authors Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton […] were popular and widely read in their own historical moment. As their names suggest, these were works concerned with propriety and expectation, but they were also experimental in their own ways.”
Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman on two Scottish female novelists who outsold & inspired Jane Austen
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #Regency #womenwriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #JaneAusten
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“Scottish authors Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton […] were popular and widely read in their own historical moment. As their names suggest, these were works concerned with propriety and expectation, but they were also experimental in their own ways.”
Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman on two Scottish female novelists who outsold & inspired Jane Austen
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #Regency #womenwriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #JaneAusten
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“Scottish authors Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton […] were popular and widely read in their own historical moment. As their names suggest, these were works concerned with propriety and expectation, but they were also experimental in their own ways.”
Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman on two Scottish female novelists who outsold & inspired Jane Austen
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #Regency #womenwriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #JaneAusten
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“Scottish authors Susan Ferrier and Mary Brunton […] were popular and widely read in their own historical moment. As their names suggest, these were works concerned with propriety and expectation, but they were also experimental in their own ways.”
Dr Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman on two Scottish female novelists who outsold & inspired Jane Austen
#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #Regency #womenwriters #SusanFerrier #MaryBrunton #JaneAusten
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🌆 NEW: Twice a year the #sun lines up with east-west streets in gridded #cities, producing a modern #Chicagohenge named for #Stonehenge.
Urban planners explain why #19thcentury orthogonal layouts create the effect, why #NYC's #Manhattanhenge follows a different calendar, and how viewers can safely watch the #sunrise and #sunset.
👉 https://www.npr.org/2026/09/21/nx-s1-5973179/equinox-henge-sunrise-sunset
#equinox #astronomy #urban #chicago #streets #seasons #science #explainer #urban
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🌆 NEW: Twice a year the #sun lines up with east-west streets in gridded #cities, producing a modern #Chicagohenge named for #Stonehenge.
Urban planners explain why #19thcentury orthogonal layouts create the effect, why #NYC's #Manhattanhenge follows a different calendar, and how viewers can safely watch the #sunrise and #sunset.
👉 https://www.npr.org/2026/09/21/nx-s1-5973179/equinox-henge-sunrise-sunset
#equinox #astronomy #urban #chicago #streets #seasons #science #explainer #urban
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🌆 NEW: Twice a year the #sun lines up with east-west streets in gridded #cities, producing a modern #Chicagohenge named for #Stonehenge.
Urban planners explain why #19thcentury orthogonal layouts create the effect, why #NYC's #Manhattanhenge follows a different calendar, and how viewers can safely watch the #sunrise and #sunset.
👉 https://www.npr.org/2026/09/21/nx-s1-5973179/equinox-henge-sunrise-sunset
#equinox #astronomy #urban #chicago #streets #seasons #science #explainer #urban