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Rachael King

@rscar

18th-centuryist, book historian, media scholar. I read old letters. Assoc. Prof., UCSB English rachaelsking.com

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This is what I’m going to tell myself

06.03.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

that's advanced!

06.03.2026 20:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That makes me feel better!

06.03.2026 20:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, no way

06.03.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Somehow that seems better?

06.03.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nothing makes me feel like a worse feminist than the number of women I have saved in my phone as "[NAME], [KID'S NAME]'s Mom"

06.03.2026 18:16 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good Noticings Book Club: Wuthering Heights | Good Noticings Get more from Good Noticings on Patreon

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04.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Jealous!

03.03.2026 04:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did u know I’m a BrontΓ« scholar

28.02.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of three women sitting onstage. I am on the right dressed in a red top and black pants.

Photo of three women sitting onstage. I am on the right dressed in a red top and black pants.

Had so much fun talking about Wuthering Heights (mostly the book, a little bit the movie) with Claire and Ashley for a live Good Noticings podcast last night

28.02.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you can, take a minute to reach out to the caregivers in your lives because they can often feel under appreciated and even invisible.

20.02.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Caregiving changed my life: how I understand myself, what I value, how I want to be in the world, how I want to show up for people. We will all give and need care at points in our lives. It’s the most fundamental form of human connection.

20.02.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Today is National Caregivers Day and I’m thinking of all the paid and unpaid caregivers who make our society function. Being a family caregiver for my sick and disabled loved one was the hardest and most human thing I’ve ever done.

20.02.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Book of Improvement How the concept of improvement came to dominate and direct British thinking about social change during the eighteenth centuryImprovement had a specific envir...

Web page for The Book of Improvement! (No cover yet.) It's starting to feel real yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

18.02.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is how I understand my own involvement in DHβ€”using methods when they are useful, but it’s not my main β€œthing.” Although just to note, I have been tsked for this, both in reader reports and on Twitter (in the old days).

16.02.2026 16:50 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Roses are red
Violets are blue
To the longest eighteenth century
Our hearts remain true ❀️
#18thcentury #18thC

14.02.2026 08:46 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love them

13.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Child’s drawing of a funhouse-style park attraction with the theme of β€œHades’ Palace”

Child’s drawing of a funhouse-style park attraction with the theme of β€œHades’ Palace”

Child’s drawing of a Cerberus rollercoaster

Child’s drawing of a Cerberus rollercoaster

Child’s drawing of β€œthe lazy river Styx”

Child’s drawing of β€œthe lazy river Styx”

Obsessed with these plans for a Greek mythology theme park

13.02.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Hand printed text reading: I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots and seeing how they were woven and interwoven that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe. β€”George Eliot, Middlemarch

Hand printed text reading: I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots and seeing how they were woven and interwoven that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe. β€”George Eliot, Middlemarch

Printing press day in my Ethics of Care and the Novel grad seminar

11.02.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ok which of you learned that look from the other?

31.01.2026 15:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Get Ready for Douglass
Day 2026!
Learn everything you need to know to celebrate Douglass Day on February 13th!
Douglass Day Newsletter
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Promo image with photo of Dred Scott and Harriet Scott. text reads: Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Learn everything you need to know to celebrate Douglass Day on February 13th! Douglass Day Newsletter DouglassDay.SubStack.com

Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today.

- Preview event on Feb 6
- New teaching resources
- Swag (trading cards are back!)

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And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!

26.01.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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Moment of Zen

25.01.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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National Nurses United outraged by murder of VA registered nurse by immigration agents, demand abolition of ICE NNU issued the following statement in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, RN: β€œThe nation’s nurses, who make it their mission to care for and save human lives, are horrified and outraged that immig...

We're horrified & outraged: Immigration agents have once again committed cold-blooded murder of a public observer who posed no threat to them.

This time, they've executed a fellow nurse, Alex Pretti. We demand justice and accountability. Abolish ICE, now! https://bit.ly/4big77u

25.01.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 654 πŸ” 293 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 14

ICU nurses took care of Ady around the clock during his final week of life. They lined the hallway, crying, during the walk of honor to the operating room for organ donation. Alex Pretti went from caring for people in the ICU to caring for people on the streets of Minneapolis, where he was murdered.

25.01.2026 03:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think so!

23.01.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, I've been making it work but it takes much longer. And it makes it less functional for students.

23.01.2026 21:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi, has anyone else noticed that ECCO ... doesn't work anymore? I'm searching for titles I know exist, that I have consulted before, and getting nothing.

23.01.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Took me a few reads to figure out this was diagramming [basketball] plays not diagramming [Shakespeare] plays. I was thinking, why would the teacher be mad about that?

15.01.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Literally yesterday I was wondering, Renaissance Vol. 3, when?

15.01.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

With a 3-year-old the period from 7 am to 12 pm does feel like 100 hours

11.01.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0