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Self-Confessed Book Hoarder: The Declutter

After trekking home from the North, I fell down onto my childhood bed and felt a pit of unease building … More

The Issue With Tick-Boxes: Studying Female Writers

At A Level I studied a whole module which was described as ‘Women in Literature’. Progressive, right? It didn’t seem … More

Zadie Smith’s White Teeth: Legacy and Britishness

‘And not this endless maze of present rooms and past rooms and the things in them said years ago and … More

I Hate Poetry…So I Read a Poem Everyday For a Week

If you haven’t read my last blog post, let me get you up to speed. I hate poetry. I hate … More

Poetry and Me: It’s Complicated

Much like a 14 year old’s facebook relationship status, my relationship with poetry has always been complicated. And since studying … More

Paris: James Baldwin’s Escape

James Baldwin’s Paris has enthralled me ever since I read Giovanni’s Room. It is a place of hope and destruction. … More

Why Being Rejected from Cambridge Was The Best Thing That Happened to Me

I’m going to Cambridge to study English. That was a mantra I repeated time and time again during my teenage … More

What Makes a ‘Bad’ English Student?

A little messy around the edges, a avid poetry hater, and most importantly: a terrible speller. As a self-proclaimed ‘bad’ … More

I Was An English Literature Snob, And I Hate Myself For It

In one of my first seminars at university we were asked to say our favourite book. I became almost frozen … More

Shakespeare Suckz: What Tutoring Taught Me About the Canon

Why do we study this? It was a question I should have expected from a fifteen year old to whom … More

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