Wendy Parkins
Former professor of Victorian literature but I'm much happier now as a novelist and memoirist based in Dunedin, NZ. Tangata tiriti.
Devoted to Dickens, Woolf, and Radiohead. Don't make me choose.
@petrabclark.bsky.social
Special Collections Librarian, former/forever Victorianist (Aestheticism & periodicals), and inveterate cat documentarian. Probably haunting the rare books stacks or stress baking. She/her
@vsawc.bsky.social
Bringing a community of scholars committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching about the Victorian period together since 1972. Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social Our website is https://vsawc.org
@emilyharrington.bsky.social
teacher, scholar, nineteenth-century poetry, women writers, fin-de-siècle, aesthetics
@incsa.bsky.social
The International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) is a professional society of scholars from around the globe. #INCSA | CNCSI Partner | https://linktr.ee/IN_CSA
@ecourtem.bsky.social
Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
@nathankhensley.bsky.social
Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (2025) • Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016) • Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/ • he/him/his
@drreznicek.bsky.social
Health Humanities at University of Minnesota, Health, Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in 18th/19thC British and Irish literature. Must love dogs. https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/matthew-reznicek
@emilysteinlight.bsky.social
assoc prof at Penn English (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
@carolynaday.bsky.social
British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
@njdames.bsky.social
Professor @ Columbia • co-EIC Public Books • writer/critic elsewhere, on the novel then and now • most recent book THE CHAPTER (Princeton UP)
@ckbmcd.bsky.social
📚Postgrad/PhD researcher - Hair in 19thC & Neo-Victorian mourning/memorialisation • Anglo-American Literature • Material culture • Death & dying • Grief • Sensation fiction • Popular fiction • Yorkshire 🏴 ➡️ Missouri 🇺🇸 💀 Taphophile http://www.ckbmcd.com
@vandasymon.bsky.social
Kiwi crime writer, CWA Dagger finalist, Barry Award nominee, science gal, and dangerous woman with a sword. The Traitors New Zealand
@drjudymelinek.bsky.social
Forensic pathologist & coauthor with TJ Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social of Working Stiff & Jessie Teska Mysteries 🔎💀🔬 ❤️ & 🔄 DON’T mean I endorse/agree.
@jmoncktonsmith.bsky.social
Professor of Public Protection at the University of Gloucestershire. Homicide, stalking and coercive control specialist.
@mrchrisaddison.bsky.social
Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy. Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
@sophiehannah.bsky.social
Bestselling crime writer Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com) Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast
@gillianmauthor.bsky.social
Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling writer. I always delete my first draft.
@anncleeves.bsky.social
Reader, crime-writer and advocate for libraries and the Reading for Wellbeing project. Creator of Vera Stanhope, Shetland and Matthew Venn, among others.
@lucyworsley.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
@janecasey.bsky.social
Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and The Killing Kind (now on TV!). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
@stephmerritt.bsky.social
Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Formerly of The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
@liznugent.bsky.social
No relation to Ted. Writer and rewriter. Sister and resister. Scullery maid to the House of Goldblatt. Strange Sally Diamond in all good bookstores now. And even the bad ones. Ha! As if there was such a thing as a bad bookstore. www.liznugent.com
@valmcdermid.bsky.social
Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
@morrissocietyus.bsky.social
https://morrissociety.org/ Established in 1971, the William Morris Society in the United States strives to publicize the life and work of William Morris and his associates.
@hburghbookfest.bsky.social
Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
@emilyhowes.bsky.social
Existential psychotherapist and (existential) novelist. www.emily-howes.com
@floracarr.bsky.social
Writer. Debut novel THE TOWER (2024) Hutchinson Heinemann/ Doubleday.
@lizfremantle.bsky.social
I wrote a book, QUEENS GAMBIT, they made a film, FIREBRAND DISOBEDIENT on Artemisia Gentileschi SINNERS pre-order for July Rep: Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown Londoner, dogs, films, Spurs, women, HWA 🏳️🌈 LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/lizfremantle
@victoriapurman.bsky.social
Australian bestselling novelist. Feminist. Reader. Golden Retriever owner.
@henrybartholomew.bsky.social
Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood 🌲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
@drabigailboucher.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in English at Aston University. Scholar of nineteenth-century literature and genre fiction. One half of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
@nic-davisson.bsky.social
Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 https://lavienouveaudecor.etsy.com
@philipmiller.bsky.social
The Diary of Lies comes out in 2025. Poetry collection: Blame Yourself (Nine Pens). The Hollow Tree: A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery Book of 2024. The Goldenacre won a Shamus. Was a journalist for many years. Edinburgh.
@suebra.bsky.social
Activist & educator for social, economic, Te Tiriti & ecological justice. Former Green MP. In solidarity with all who work for a beyond capitalist, beyond colonialist future.
@chitgrrl.bsky.social
Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
@sarasheridan.bsky.social
Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan
@dougjohnstone.bsky.social
Writer & musician. 18th novel Living is a Problem out now. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
@rebeccasmithauthor.bsky.social
Writer, journalist. Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins Beckcsmith.com
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/ Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
@marjorielotfi.bsky.social
Writer (The Wrong Person to Ask/ Bloodaxe Books, Forward Prize, James Berry Award, Saltire Prize Shortlist) Co-Founder/Director Open Book, Mentor, writing retreats at Galloway House Estate
@michlsloan.bsky.social
Scottish author based in Dundee. 🏴☀️ Latest book: 'The Edinburgh Skating Club' (Birlinn, 2022) Owned by three dogs and three chickens......🐶🐶🐶🐔🐔🐔
@ruthiesthomas.bsky.social
Writer. The Home Corner (Faber) | The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime). New novel in progress. Agent: Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Home-Corner-by-Ruth-Thomas/9780571230624
@louisewelsh00.bsky.social
Writer, The Cutting Room, Plague Times Trilogy, To the Dogs & more. Prof Creative Writing, Glasgow University. Hon Prez Scottish PEN. Podcast Who Owns the Clyde. Librettist Anthropocene. Theatre, movies, cats, life 🏳️🌈
@carolfarrelly.bsky.social
Fiction writer. Ignite Fellow 2025: Scottish Book Trust. Winner: Canada & Europe, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Stories: Granta, New Writing Scotland, BBC Radio 4. Www.carolfarrelly.com
@zoestrachan.bsky.social
Author, mainly of fiction. Sound art. Professor of Creative & Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow. Books, cats, coffee.
@helenacoxcurator.bsky.social
Art Curator at Uni of York overseeing a collection of over 900 artworks. Art historian of Czech, British & Japanese art, Art Nouveau, Victorian art and Pre-Raphaelites. At home in York 🇬🇧- Prague 🇨🇿 - Providence, RI 🇺🇸 - Linköping 🇸🇪
@domesticanimal.bsky.social
Socially awkward political cartoonist. She/her. Like reading and walking. Ngāi Tahu/Scottish. Live in Aotearoa New Zealand
@jensugden.bsky.social
Writer of comic fiction | Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction shortlisted | Sunday Times Bestseller | Erstwhile Victorianist (PhD in 19th C fiction) | She/Her Listen: Victoriocity Podcast & Murmurs (BBC Sounds) Read: High vaultage (Gollancz)
@alibacon.bsky.social
Fiction writer, sometimes historical. https://linktr.ee/alibwriter 'The Absent Heart' inspired by #RLS letters to Fanny Sitwell out March 2025 with Linen Press. https://www.linen-press.com/shop/the-absent-heart/