@hannahpalmer
Doctoral candidate @lboroenglish.bsky.social. Working on abortion and maternal histories in the 19thC. Interests include 19thC-lit , histmed, women's health, obs and gynae, lived experience, women's writing. Also posting on @healthhumslboro.bsky.social 🫀🦋🧚♀️
Big congratulations to @hannahpalmer.bsky.social
Dr Hannah Palmer, who passed her Viva yesterday.
Hannah's thesis is entitled 'Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature'.
An extra extraordinary piece of work. 👩🎓👩🎓👩🎓🎓🎓🎓
Thank you Lisa 💕💕💕xxx
Sounds great - thanks so much Joanne!
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Also enormous thanks to my brilliant examiners @saralread.bsky.social and Dr Jessica Cox for such an insightful discussion. 💫 Looking forward to more research in the near future!
I am so pleased to share that I passed my viva yesterday!! Working on my PhD thesis (‘Abortion in Nineteenth-Century British Literature’) at @lboroenglish.bsky.social has been a wonderful experience thanks to my incredible supervisory team @drclaireocall.bsky.social @braddonite.bsky.social 💕🦋🫀
Registration is now live for my VPFA Study Day on 'Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities'. It's free to attend, thanks to funding from the VPFA and the Health Humanities Hub at Loughborough University. The programme and the link to register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/sensation-fi...
Emily Brontë Reappraised: Expanded and updated edition by Claire O’Callaghan, publishing in 2026 from Saraband.
Today we are celebrating all things Emily Brontë 🤎
And we are delighted to reveal the cover for the expanded and updated edition of Emily Brontë Reappraised by
@drclaireocall.bsky.social, publishing in 2026!
Discover more here:
saraband.net/sb-title/emi...
#Booksky #emilybronte
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Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking all things Brontë with the marvellous @drclaireocall.bsky.social
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Thanks so much for sharing Lisa!! 🩷
Thank you, Jo!! This is such a sweet message. Lots more on Mrs Glover and her unbelievable ordeal(!) to come later this year, but with a focus on Gaskell and her version of Mrs G's story... xxx
@lboroenglish.bsky.social
My new article was published earlier this week!! It focuses on the gynaecological health of Mrs Glover, the subject of several letters in Elizabeth Gaskell's correspondence between 1853–54, and reveals Glover's original patient record that I found at the wonderful @bharchives.bsky.social. ✨
The next special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal is “Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture” and will be guest-edited by Dr Bethany Dahlstrom & Dr Helena Esser. For full CFP and submission guidelines, please see: victorianpopularfiction.org/wp-content/u...
Very much looking forward to sharing my work on pregnancy and motherhood following gynaecological surgery in the mid-19th century as part of this fantastic programme! It is online and free - links in posts below about how to register. Thank you for including me @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social !! 🫀💫
So so proud of my lovely friend and colleague, the new Dr Turner @coppertapestry.bsky.social !!! 💕 Jo's thesis on Marie Corelli is truly spectacular, not to mention groundbreaking. Beautifully written & expertly designed - thank you for letting me read it! X
Nearly there xx
Couldn’t have done it without you 😘
Thanks Sarah, and thanks for being a fantastic reviewer!! 🩷
This week I submitted my PhD thesis! ✨I have loved this project and feel so lucky to have spent the last 3 years researching & writing. I have found new narratives about the realities of women’s reproductive health inside and outside of medicine, and uncovered histories of real lived experiences 🩺📚✍🏼
The cover image of Victoriographies journal volume 15, number 3, 2025, titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. The image of an ornate’V’ is paired with a collage picture that includes an image of Marie Corelli with representations of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, provincial newspaper mastheads, Japanese text, and subtle references to twins.
Coming very, very soon…
Eleanor Dobson and I have co-edited a special issue of @edinburghup.bsky.social Victoriographies - titled Marie Corelli Reconsidered. There are clues to its contents in the beautiful cover image, below… we can’t wait for the work of our contributors to be out in the world!
🔈📚🕰️🩺 Join us for a Loughborough Health Humanities x Cultural Currents event on Weds 29 October, 16:15. Taking place in a hybrid format - DM us (or DM @culturalcurrents.bsky.social) for link and details. See post below for more info on our wonderful speakers👇
Yes, thank you! PhD submission next month... ! Was excited to see your progress with WWV x
Congrats Sophie!! This looks fantastic! X
CFP 📣 Join us in Loughborough 📍 for a day of Sensation fiction and health humanities organised by our very own @braddonite.bsky.social. ✨ See post below for details 👇
Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xswz3swa
CFP: Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities A VPFA Study Day Loughborough University, 27 March 2026 The Health Humanities and Victorian popular fiction intersect in revealing ways, offering insights into how 19th-century literature shaped and reflected contemporary understandings of health, illness, and the body. Popular narratives not only mirrored anxieties surrounding public health and medical progress but also contributed to shaping public perceptions of health and healing. Health Humanities approaches re-examine these texts to uncover how cultural narratives and literary representations influenced attitudes toward physical and mental well-being, gendered experiences of illness, and the ethics of care in an age of rapid scientific change. Health Humanities is a particularly useful approach to sensation fiction because it illuminates the ways in which these emotionally charged, often morally ambiguous narratives explore and interrogate concepts of the body, illness, and mental health. Sensation fiction, with its focus on secrets, trauma, nervous disorders, and abnormal psychological states, frequently dramatizes the anxieties of Victorian society surrounding health, gender, and identity. By applying the lens of Health Humanities, scholars can uncover how these texts reflect and shape contemporary medical discourse. Interdisciplinary approaches also highlight how sensation fiction critiques institutional medicine, domestic care practices, and the pathologization of women’s experiences. Ultimately, Health Humanities allows us to see sensation fiction not just as entertainment, but as a culturally significant form that negotiates the meanings of illness, morality, and human vulnerability in a rapidly changing world. 20-minute papers are invited on any aspect of the health humanities and sensation fiction. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: • Madness, Hysteria, and the Sensation Heroine • The Role of Doctors and Medical Authority in Se…
🚨Call for Papers!
❓Sensation Fiction and the Health Humanities: A VPFA Study Day
🗺️Loughborough University
📅27 March 2026
💷 FREE
For full CfP: victorianpopularfiction.org/studyday/for...
Contact the organiser Anne-Marie Beller (@braddonite.bsky.social) at a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk for more information
Congrats, Claire!! This sounds amazing! X
Congratulations, Sarah!! X
This is a great post and a wonderful project, which features a little pub history - I'm fascinated by pubs responding to tourist opportunities in this period - and even a temperance hall. Loughborough was a decent temperance town, and you'd need somewhere to go on holiday!
This image is a picture of a miniature plague doctor figure. The figure is small (just a few inches tall) and it is a person dressed in all black with a black hat and the iconic plague mask.
The exhibition is interactive and diverse, and such a wonderful representation of the kind of research going on in the Health Humanities at Loughborough. A big congratulations to all involved in this fantastic event. ✨ Also, a moment of appreciation for the mini plague doctor...
