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Back from home after a half-term holiday in Lancashire. Brought back...a chest infection! 🤦🏻‍♀️

But I also brought back this. The line: “Oh yes,” said Lady Slane; “my interests and occupations. Quite. Go on, Herbert.” is just so gloriously loaded.

Enjoying William F. Long’s article on Dickens’s sketch ‘The Parlour’ in Dickens Quarterly and came across this. Remember all the talk in the last 2 elections about the national debt? It’s a bit like the ozone layer. Are we still worried about this? Anyway, same worry in 19C.

Has anyone else come across a description of George Henry Lewes as an 'associate of George Eliot' written post 19thC? I've just come across one from 2018....

How long do your notebooks last? William Blake, born #otd in 1757, got over 30 years out of his. When he reached the last page of the book, he turned it upside down and began working from the end on the back of each leaf. ow.ly/YQDf50xm3n0

Academic peeps: I've lived through many disasters. Here is my advice on "productivity". First, play the long game. Your peers who are trying to work as normal right now are going to burn out fast. They're doomed. Make a plan with a longer vision. /1

I wrote a thing about why I love H.E Bates and why I think The Pop Larkin Chronicles make perfect quarantine reading. aagarza.com ☺️ #hebates

Just posted a photo @ The Hague, Netherlands instagram.com/p/COARaSirES9/…

Just posted a photo @ The Hague, Netherlands instagram.com/p/COpm3wbrv2N/…

Beautifully written essay about the immigrant experience, education, and the contemplative life. The Point Magazine Thinking Is Self-Emptying | The Point Magazine thepointmag.com/examined-life/…

Put up a few bookshelves. That's a lie. My husband did it.

Thoroughly enjoyed writing on Agee and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men for this week’s The TLS . Thanks George Berridge and Catharine Morris!

'There is an interesting play in the book between flippancy and deep feeling­.' (Dr Ana Alicia Garza) the-tls.co.uk/articles/james…

Dr Ana Alicia Garza in the TLS raises a subject I have always found gripping - the nostalgia for a past which is not one's own. (And Agee among my writer superstars) the-tls.co.uk/articles/james…

It was a pleasure to write about three excellent books on Victorian vagrants. Thank you Michael Caines and Catharine Morris!

'Dickensland is about the literary tourism that spun out of this time, from inns claiming to be the 'original' Maypole to tourists searching for the entrances to old graveyards.' (Dr Ana Alicia Garza) the-tls.co.uk/articles/dicke…

This week’s The TLS, featuring Dr Ana Alicia Garza on Dickens; Peter Thonemann on the Greek polis; Daniel Johnson and Marcel Lepper on Goethe; Rod Mengham on Tracey Emin; Lily on Stuart Murdoch; Johnjoe McFadden on Richard Dawkins; Philippa Snow on Nic Cage – and more

'Dickens found it impossible not to moralize and do something to combat Ignorance and Want.' Ana Alicia Garza (Dr Ana Alicia Garza) on hard truths in the essays and fiction of Charles Dickens the-tls.co.uk/literature-by-…

Delighted to be in this week’s The TLS, writing about my favourite Victorian cynic. Thank you Michael Caines and Catharine Morris!