Rebecca Anne Barr

@rabarr.bsky.social

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Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.

A row of casually-dressed academics in a Victorian picture gallery, clustered around a glamorous academic woman in a black and orange geometric dress.
Portrait of May Swenson, a white woman with brown short cropped hair looks directly at the viewer. Her stare is uncompromising.
A red postbox topped by a crochet tribute to Sir David Attenborough, and his 100th birthday, featuring a hedgehog and a vibrant red squirrel.
An official message from a copyeditor at a university press, saying they had fun reading an academic book (truly a rarity!).
small grey and honey coloured mutt beside a sign saying polling station.
half marathon tracker time for a 73 year old woman, reads 2 hour 34 min and 53 seconds.
Image of a google search for RF Brissenden's scholarly book with a bizarre goodreads review as a result.
A woman listening carefully with her head to one side while an older man, her father, speaks. on the screen behind them a further woman, the other editor, also listens intently.
Autumn hop bine.
A young deer sitting in the shade of a tree, dappled sunlight, some red deckchairs in the background.
Tiny lime-green origami dragon in front of some books on a shelf.
A slightly manic terrier cross looking out at the viewer from a field with four chestnut coloured cows in the background.
Screenshot of OED Online which shows entry for the term killjoy, now with Smollett's novel as the 1st known recorded instance of the term.
Screenshot of an ebook chapter on male virgins and misogyny in Sir Charles Grandison.
The kinetic sculture Asklepian by Ivan Black (b.1972). Several green, blue, yellow and red circles spiral up a central column, mimicking the structure of DNA.
A large slice of cherry pie on a yellow dish with a pot of tea.
Cute bedraggled dog with its tongue out in long grass.
Proofs of a contents page of an academic book, with a pen.
Image of Dublin Bay from the window of a plane: blue sky, sunshine mirrored in the water.
A tall University library tower against a bright blue sky. The square is framed by slender trees. The light is autumnal.
Call for papers entitled: the boring eighteenth century?