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Society for Renaissance Studies Conference
I’ve just spent three days at the Society for Renaissance Studies Conference in Manchester, and very stimulating it was too. It was nice to meet some new people and hear about their work, and a few people I’ve spoken to have been interested in my work and offered to keep in touch. There were some…
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The Doldrums
It hasn’t been a particularly good week for research and writing, I must say. The persistent, rainy weather hasn’t helped, and neither has the extra stress caused by the impending house move, but I really lost my way this week. After the writing group, I tried to implement some of the more useful changes they…
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Originally posted on Avoiding The Bears: In my most recent meeting with my supervisor, he made an observation that I think I’m going to come to regard as fateful. ‘There comes a time in a PhD’, he said, ‘when you have to stop lying’. It wasn’t quite as devastating as that appears. My supervisor has…
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Under Pressure…
I’ve not posted for a couple of weeks because I’ve been incredibly busy with life, the universe and everything. We are in the process of moving house, in as much as someone is buying ours and we are buying another, but as there is no chain at either end we need to be ready to…
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Commenting – a new method in my madness
This week I’ve been using the comment feature in word to mark up bits of my work that I’d had ideas about, or needed to do a bit more digging on. It was a new idea, brought on in part by a lack of confidence that they way I’d been working, the way I’ve always…
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Holiday!
I’ve had a week off. A real week off. I did absolutely no work. I went to Donegal with my extended family, and had a lovely, quiet week. I’m looking forward to getting stuck in tomorrow but I actually really enjoyed not doing any work at all. I did my sewing. I played on the…
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Juggling
This is going to be an interesting week. I’m starting my proper research on the Marian ballads. So far I’ve written quite a bit about two of them – I’m splurging so that I can go back and edit all my ideas later. But there’s a lot on this week. I have various meetings and…
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ballads
Last night I sent off the beginning of my chapter to my supervisor, so this morning I am able to start work on an in depth investigation of the ballads. I’m glad to have finished with the historiography for a bit, and I’ve been looking forward to doing some of my own research again. I…
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Re-dressing my blog
I have been playing about with my blog theme – I’d written two other pages but the theme I was using didn’t show them. I’m not entirely satisfied with the new one, but at least you can see the page about me and the page about my secondary reading material, which, at the moment, doesn’t…
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