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@asls.org.uk Sep 15, 2026, 2:55 PM

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate…

—Robert Louis Stevenson, “My Wife”
#C19

My Wife
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate.

Honour, anger, valour, fire;
A love that life could never tire,
Death quench or evil stir,
The mighty master
Gave to her.

Teacher, tender, comrade, wife,
A fellow-farer true through life,
Heart-whole and soul-free
The august father
Gave to me.

@asls.org.uk Sep 15, 2026, 2:55 PM

Teacher, Tender, Comrade, Wife: The Life of Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson
28 Oct, Edinburgh. £10

Pioneer of the American West, art student in Paris & explorer of the South Seas: Jane Bonnyman tells the story of Fanny’s unconventional & free-spirited life
#C19
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@harbottlestores.bsky.social Sep 13, 2026, 6:33 AM

Here goes: read my book if you want to know about scientific work in #c19 asylums. Each chapter focuses on a part of the body that was deemed important for understanding General Paralysis of the Insane (neurosyphilis). Also, it's open access and *free*.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

@asls.org.uk Sep 11, 2026, 4:04 PM

A staged reading of Joanna Baillie’s 1798 comedy THE TRYAL. The text has been modified for the stage: it has been shortened but there is also a scene added to clarify the plot. This reading brings to life a text Baillie was unable to produce in her own day.
#C18 #C19
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ks...

@asls.org.uk Sep 11, 2026, 4:04 PM

Joanna Baillie supported working-class poets & female writers. She inspired Byron & was considered by Harriet Martineau “second only to Shakespeare”. The @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social of England has volumes of her work in their Research Room
#C18 #C19
www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-...

@asls.org.uk Sep 11, 2026, 4:04 PM

Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) was born #OTD, 11 Sep. Plays on the Passions, a series of female-led comedies & tragedies, brought Baillie fame during a period when serious drama was in decline. Her 256th birthday was commemorated by a Google doodle in 2018
🎂🧵
#C18 #C19
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@asls.org.uk Sep 7, 2026, 1:58 PM

From 2024: @drcleoocy.bsky.social examines the representation of English & Scottish national stereotypes in the novels of Scottish authors Susan Ferrier, Mary Brunton, & Elizabeth Hamilton

From Reading Scotland at @unimainz.bsky.social
#C18 #C19 #WomenWriters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OK...

@asls.org.uk Sep 7, 2026, 1:58 PM

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 is, then, a novel concerned with questions of morality & education, but also national identity, the differences between Scottish & English cultures…It is also very funny”

—Books & Borrowing, 1750–1830 on Susan Ferrier’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦
#C18 #C19
borrowing.stir.ac.uk/forgotten-be...

@asls.org.uk Sep 7, 2026, 1:58 PM

“Miss Ferrier avowedly made thumb-nail sketches,—as is proved in one of the few surviving letters to or from her,—out of which grew the merciless caricatures that created her fame”

—an 1893 @theatlantic.com article contrasting Ferrier & #Austen
#C19 #WomenWriters
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Now, however, that the newspapers are advertising these books, — which North described to Tickler in the Noctes as “the works of a very clever woman, sir,” — and the writer’s fine Scotch name as well, there can be no more ignorance of the fact that Marriage, The Inheritance, and Destiny, were written by Susan Edmonstone Ferrier. But sooth (and sad) to say, investigation is forced to go one step further, and ask who and what that very clever woman was. The whirligig of time does indeed bring in a revenge or two along with the rest of its cargo, for Susan Ferrier, although during the greater portion of her life she was one of the most brilliant Edinburgh figures, has long been an extinct phenomenon, while the laurels of Jane Austen are each year taking on a brighter shade of green. But poor Miss Austen had no laurels to wear while she was alive, — perhaps that is the reason why she put on caps at an extraordinarily early age; and it is therefore to be hoped that her piquant shade is finding a truly Positivist satisfaction in the immortality of thick-coming editions, memoirs, criticisms, and discussions.

@asls.org.uk Sep 7, 2026, 1:58 PM

Infinite Women: Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

In this episode of the @infinite-women.com podcast, @drcleoocy.bsky.social & @kateferrier.bsky.social discuss Susan Ferrier’s life & work
#C18 #C19 #WomenWriters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbHj...

@asls.org.uk Sep 7, 2026, 1:58 PM

We republished Susan Ferrier’s 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦 in 2020, using the text of the acid-sharp 1819 2nd edition rather than the sentimentalised Victorian 4th edition of 1841. You can read the first chapter online here:
#C18 #C19 #WomenWriters 💙📚
www.yumpu.com/en/document/...

@asls.org.uk Sep 7, 2026, 1:58 PM

“It is a truth universally acknowledged…”

Susan Ferrier’s 2nd novel 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 (1824) starts with a nod & wink to Jane Austen’s 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦 (1813). In 1818, Blackwood’s paid £150 for 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦; it is a testament to Ferrier’s popularity that they paid £1000 for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦
#C18 #C19

Screenshot of the top of page 1 of Susan Ferrier’s THE INHERITANCE

THE INHERITANCE.

CHAPTER I.

“Strange is it, that our bloods
Of colour, weight, and heat, pour’d all together,
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off
In differences so mighty.”
—All’s Well that Ends Well.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that there is no passion so deeply rooted in human nature as that of pride. Whether of self or family, of deeds done in our own bodies, or deeds done in the bodies of those who lived hundreds of years before us—all find some foundation on which to build their Tower of Babel. Even the dark uncertain future becomes a bright field of promise to the eye of pride, which, like Banquo’s bloody ghost, can smile even upon the dim perspective of posthumuous greatness.

@asls.org.uk Sep 7, 2026, 1:58 PM

Susan Ferrier (1782–1854) was born #OTD, 7 Sept. Her 3 novels – 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘦, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦, & 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 – are vivid & humorous accounts of Scottish society. Often compared to her contemporary #JaneAusten, Ferrier’s satires are much more vicious…
A 🎂🧵
#C18 #C19 #WomenWriters
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@asls.org.uk Sep 5, 2026, 12:18 PM

You can download all of of Robert Louis Stevenson’s FABLES as a free ebook from our website – including the one where Long John Silver & Captain Smollett sneak out between chapters of TREASURE ISLAND for a fly smoke & a blether…
💙📚 #C19 #shortfiction #flashfiction
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@norwayskandinavien.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 3:12 PM

#Corona #C19 #Luftreiniger #Covid #C19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #covidisairborne #CleanAir #CoronaVirus #TragtMaske #IgnoringCovidIsDeadly

Die Fallzahlen scheinen weiter exponentiell anzusteigen, darum die
#MaskeBleibtAuf 😷💪, auch die Luftreiniger bleiben eingeschaltet 💪

@norwayskandinavien.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 3:12 PM

#Corona #C19 #Luftreiniger #Covid #C19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #covidisairborne #CleanAir #CoronaVirus #TragtMaske #IgnoringCovidIsDeadly

Die Fallzahlen scheinen weiter exponentiell anzusteigen, darum die
#MaskeBleibtAuf 😷💪, auch die Luftreiniger bleiben eingeschaltet 💪

@norwayskandinavien.bsky.social Sep 3, 2026, 3:11 PM

#Corona #C19 #Luftreiniger #Covid #C19 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver #covidisairborne #CleanAir #CoronaVirus #TragtMaske #IgnoringCovidIsDeadly

Die Fallzahlen scheinen weiter exponentiell anzusteigen, darum die
#MaskeBleibtAuf 😷💪, auch die Luftreiniger bleiben eingeschaltet 💪