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  1. This week I have begun editing the #Honno Classics Series volume that's going to be released in spring 2025 -- and there's some brilliant gendered shade getting thrown around.

    This extract is from a conversation between a young woman and the man she believes to be her father. She's only in her teens, but uses patriarchy's logic against itself.

    #WelshWritingInEnglish #LitStudies #VictorianLit #Wales

  2. Time for an #introduction! I'm a #PhD candidate at the #UniversityofMinnesota, studying #biography and #victorianlit. I'm writing a #dissertation about The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy.

    I also write #bookreviews and #creativenonfiction and have #published in Chicago Review of Books, Split Lip Magazine, Colorado Review, etc. I'm the managing editor at Pleiades.

    Other interests: #bibliomemoir, #translation, #latinamericanliterature, #publichumanities, #books

  3. @kelseashanty @litstudies Strap yourself in for one of the perhaps best early novels written about the French Invasion of Fishguard in 1797. Not quite Napoleonic, but co-temporary.
    Margaret Ellen James: The Fishguard invasion by the French in 1797
    Publication date 1892 #C19Lit
    #WelshWritingInEnglish #VictorianLit @litstudies

    archive.org/details/fishguardi