My book, Industrial Gothic, is now a real thing from @UniWalesPress.UK: .US/Canada has to wait til August, but find it here: So many thanks to so many folks who have helped me with the project and engaged with these ideas.

Happy New Year! Just a few more days -- til January 10th -- to submit an abstract for our ALA roundtable on teaching the American #Gothic. We would love to have a few more presenters! See CFP here:.ALA is in Boston May 21-24, 2025.

We're extending the deadline for this to January 10th 2025. We'd love to see your proposals for ALA Boston on Teaching the American Gothic!.

Writing a brief farewell tweet to say that I'm moving over to @factorygothic.bsky.social.Hope to see you there.

I'm not here much and not sure anyone will see this, but figured I'd share: I have a CFP out for a roundtable at ALA Boston (May 2025) on teaching the American #Gothic. Would love to hear about what you're doing! Abstracts by 12/15. Full CFP here:

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Sadly, due to illness, I will not be able to present my paper on Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Sensation Fiction and the Gothic at the IGA here in Halifax today. If you’re interested in the topic, this link will take you to the handout I made for the talk.

RT @SaraWasson_1: CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of the International Gothic Association Book Prizes 2024! . @IGA_Goths .

Among inauspicious moments in Presidential visit history: June 1833, President Andrew Jackson visited #Lowell. The Rose Bud or Youth's Gazette (Charleston, SC) reported that a group of boys saluted him with artillery & two boys -- Russell and Drummer -- each lost a hand.

Delighted to find several #recipes for writing a sensation novel. July 18, 1864 Daily Boston Advertiser provided three variations, including "a la Madame Henri de Bois" (Mrs. Henry Wood), an unnamed author (clearly Mary Elizabeth Braddon), and "Cilkie Wollins" (Wilkie Collins).

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Spending a little time with old issues of Punch, and though I'm pretty sure Punch is making fun of these ladies, honestly, I love both the morning and evening fashions from 1866.

In light of a big new list of the best books of the 21st century, I thought some folks might enjoy this list published May 29, 1896 in the Minneapolis Penny Press of the most popular novels in various "departments of fiction." Some of these are sure to cause a fight.

Brought my whole family and we had a lovely time binding booklets and looking at some 19th-century children's books, diaries, drawings, and handwritten newspapers like the Skowhegan Clarion and The Monthly. Check out the awesome digitized collection here:

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So they are currently filming scenes for the Walking Dead right now in downtown #Lowell, and simultaneously, an alert has just gone out to all devices that the state-wide 911 system is down. Add the 95+degree heat and it's feeling pretty apocalyptic-y.

My summer plans were somehow anticipated by this Life in Lowell illustration from 1849:

I've had an awesome week here in Worcester @AmAntiquarian. I read a few issues of illustrated Lowell newspapers and found another story of a Lowell mill girl. I have learned so much from being a part of this week's CHAViC seminar focused on Disability

That's some Offering v Graham's beef! Another Offering bit says Graham's "contributors furnish essays, deprecating the evils of tight lacing, and tales illustrative of its evil effects, yet the figures of the plates of fashions are uniformly most unnaturally slender." Checks out:

She calls his entire first paragraph "Fudge!", suggests with lots of (sarcastic?) italics that the author of the piece "is one of the handsomest men in America" and quotes someone else saying he's "a delight--a jewel of a man." Reader, check out G. Rex's facial hair choice:

While Graham's piece claims "There is nothing like first love!" the author of the Offering response suggests "Yes, there is. Put a hot potato in your mouth. and it will produce precisely the same symptoms as first love" and critiques the "sentimentality" of Graham's depiction.