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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

17 days

Its paperback release day for Miss Austen Investigates 🎉📚🎉📚🎉

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

At the school welcome evening, all the children were invited to leave a note for their parents. Here’s mine…

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

A thread of the worst #JaneAusten covers because even when they’re terrible, they’re ALL somehow brilliant. #1 The Regency ended at least half a century ago, and Emma is totally over this shit.

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2 years

#3 is fake news. How can this be an original fifties pulp fiction, when Darcy is clearly drawn from Colin Firth?

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

@CathHanley @EHChalus This is exactly the kind of pedantry I really appreciate 🙌

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

#10 is actually the best Jane Austen cover ever produced. Never, in the history of cover design has someone got it so right by getting it so wrong. This edition would take pride of place on Catherine Morland’s bedside table.

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

#4 is genius. There is no Little Shop of Horrors in Bath, but Lady Russell’s insidious Persuasion will EAT YOU, Seymour.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

#8 Ladies, if your gentleman looks this horny when you’re clearly in terror I’m raising 🚩🚩🚩

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

#2 Pride & Prejudice, The Ladybird guide to simmering sexual tension.

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

#7 Pride & Prejudice, the full colour instruction manual?

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

👒🪶 GIVEAWAY 🔍🥰 By the magic of Austen, I have a #MissAustenInvestigates proof & tote for one lucky winner! To enter, follow, like and RT this post. UK only please. Ends midnight 5th Nov, and winner will be chosen and announced next day. Good luck! #giveaway #BookTwitter

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

I don’t want to alarm anyone but yesterday my teenage daughter made me take her to Boots to buy a lip liner that was a slightly darker brown than her lip gloss.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

#6 Cashing in on the success of DH Lawrence novels featuring well-tended gardens, it’s Lady Catherine’s Lover.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

#5 Jane Austen the fourth Bronte sister. She drove Charlotte, Emily and Anne onto the moors with her relentlessly cheerful heroines and ceaseless wisecracks.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

#9 Impossible to judge without seeing the stepback. Will there be room for all 3 ladies and a shirtless Wentworth on the chaise longue?

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

Jane Austen, describing the delights of the Bath social scene to her sister Cassandra in 1801: ‘Another stupid party last night.’

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

3 years

@EmmaKennedy Er…. The same CBBC that educated my children and saved our family’s sanity during lockdown?!

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

New followers, I feel I owe you this. A thread on the very best #JaneAusten covers. #1 Is a timeless classic, and the first Austen I ever had the privilege to own. Look how furious Darcy is at the audacity of this photographer ❤️‍🔥

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

Today I went to meet my lovely publishing team for lunch at Gloria’s, Shoreditch. I got their early so I ordered a sensible mocktail to show them what a professional I was. THIS is what they brought me 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

8 months

Most debut authors won’t know this simple hack but, if you go into a bookshop and ask to sign, it really helps the staff verify your identity if you dress as the cover. Look at this pro in action… I can almost forgive him for stamping on my heart several times over 🧡

Waterstones Islington

@WstoneIslington

8 months

A huge thank you to @DavidNWriter for visiting us and signing our copies of One Day 🧡 It was a pleasure to have you! #OneDayNetflix #waterstonesislington

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

Made it! #JaneAustenFestival

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

I just bought this gorgeous tea dress from @joanieclothing . I love it, but I was debating whether to keep it or not as like most adult women I am Rubenesque around the belly and the buttons gaped. BUT then I realised it has been designed by an actual genius… 1/2

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8 months

Variety

@Variety

8 months

Who Should Play John, Paul, George and Ringo in the Beatles Movies?

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@NovelistJessica

1 year

LOOK 👀 it has a secret inner facing button on the belly to combat exactly this problem. Is this what happens when women design for women? And, of course, it also has pockets. Go ahead Joanie, you can have all my money in future 👏👏👏

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

9 months

Emboldened by a couple of fantastic crime authors I follow on here, I sheepishly introduced myself to my local Waterstones at Bluewater, Dartford. Yesterday, I returned to this! Signed copies of #MissAustenInvestigates now available from @Bluewaterstones 🥰🪶🔍

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

@NicolaMDavidson @bandherbooks Is that ten thousand pounds in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

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@NovelistJessica

1 year

Very rare to see this level of muslin nowadays, even on the wealthy. So let's talk about some of the reasons why it's great.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

3 years

@Anna_Mazz I love a bit of titillating reading. Or even titillating, while reading.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

@BookLvr_74 @meganf P&P the sequel, in which Elizabeth & Darcy go to marriage counselling: ‘And he refuses to respect my mother’

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

4 months

Channelling Team Featherington at the Jane Austen Festival peacock-themed summer ball! Extra proud because I made my gown and my Captain Wentworth’s jacket 🦚

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

@klsybwmn It’s the ‘a billionaire and a blatant HR violation’ that killed me.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

3 years

I am dead. I have actually died and gone to #WritingCommnunity heaven.

Juliet Mushens

@mushenska

3 years

I’m so excited to have signed @NovelistJessica for Miss Austen Investigates: The Hapless Milliner. When a young woman is found dead at a ball and Jane Austen’s brother is accused, the fiercely intelligent and feisty Jane must use her intellectual prowess to clear his name.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

I went to the house where #JaneAusten died and stumbled across P&G Wells - poss the oldest independent bookshop in the UK. Austen’s father and brothers had accounts here. Today, they stock a wonderful collection of Austen related books AND tons of cosy crime. My dream bookshop!!

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

If anyone’s thinking about doing #NaNoWriMo this year, I say go for it. Start planning now. Use it as an excuse to write from your heart. Finally tackle that mad, silly story you think is too geeky to go anywhere. Last year’s project turned out rather well for me.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

Going out out #JaneAustenfestival

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

@ElisabethHobbes In which Darcy accosts Elizabeth for failing to settle her bill before exiting the Pemberley tearooms.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

When you finally make a friend who understands and enables your #JaneAusten obsession, but she lives on the other side of the Atlantic 😭😭😭 Have a safe flight home, Elizabeth (Felicity George) - that was one epic Austen adventure!

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

Unfortunately there is a scarcity of gentlemen, so none of us are letting this one go #janeaustenfestival

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

The dress made it!! And it had a great time 🥂 #JaneAustenFestivalBath

Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

It is by no means perfect, but it is done!! Tune in tomorrow for pics of me wearing it #JaneAustenFestivalBath

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

7 months

Went to @Southwarkcathed . Saw Shakespeare’s window and, even better, met @HodgeTheCat .

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

@LindaJenLambert I feel she’s perfected the ‘sinister hostage taker’ voice at an early stage in her writing career. She’ll be out-writing me soon. Or, in jail.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

@FrancesShx And gives me a strange craving for fish fingers.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

9 months

I’m feeling like an absolute diva this morning! Thank you so much to everyone for helping me celebrate the publication of my debut novel, #MissAustenInvestigates - in person and by sending me your best wishes from around the world 🥰🔍🪶

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

And the news is out! I’m deliriously happy to share I’m working with @JessicaLeeke @MichaelJBooks to bring you the 1st in my #JaneAusten murder mystery series, #MissAustenInvestigates : The Hapless Milliner, in 2024. TVM to super ⭐️ @mushens & the incredible #TeamMushens #FBF2022

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

My husband is convinced the only way he can do regency dress-up at the #JaneAusten festival is if he’s a naval officer (due to his beard). I’m therefore making him watch all 3 versions of #Persuasion for ‘essential research’.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

10 months

Finished copies of my debut novel, Miss Austen Investigates, and why I love them so much! 🥰👒🪶🔍❤️

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

A 🧵on the best #JaneAusten movie posters. #1 Is it a romance, or is it a horror film about woman trying to escape her creepy stalker? Watch out Lizzie, he’s behind you!

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

10 months

Entering my Gainsborough era! For my debut novel, Miss Austen Investigates (out in 2 weeks!), I wanted to understand what it was like to inhabit #JaneAusten 's world - so I made and wore my own Regency-style gowns. I also made my husband a Captain Wentworth jacket 😍 1/3

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

Petition to add on horseback, by post-chaise, coach and six, barouche-landau and mail coach to the options for working out journey times on Google maps, on behalf of all historical novelists. #amwriting

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

Lizzy, when she sees Pemberley for the first time.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 month

My life changed forever 29 years ago today…

ChawtonHouse

@ChawtonHouse

1 month

Today marks 29 years since the BBC premiered the first episode of their six 55-minute episode series of Pride & Prejudice. What was your favourite moment from the series? Was it Mr Darcy's infamous emergence from the water in front of Miss Elizabeth Bennet?

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

The most believable part of #bodiesnetflix is the police librarian who’s waited his entire career for someone to ask him to find an obscure file from a century ago in less than a minute.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 month

We ran into some teenagers on the way home who complimented my husband’s drip and honestly I couldn’t agree more. #JaneAustenFestivalBath

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

9 months

My ambition in writing Miss Austen Investigates was to show #JaneAusten ’s short but remarkable life was full of love. It is testament to the support of her friends and family that so much of Austen’s work survives for us to enjoy today. (1/3)

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

Your last saved celebrity picture is your therapist. I’m in trouble.

Imogen Hermes Gowar

@girl_hermes

2 years

Your last saved celebrity picture is your therapist. Can you imagine?????

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

10 months

Say what you like about BookTok, but both my teenage daughters are reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.

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@NovelistJessica

6 months

Down with selfies, bring back silhouettes.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

It’s the second half of my holiday, and I’m rolling out the big guns: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. This can’t possibly be as good as everyone says it is. Or can it? #Hamnet #MaggieOFarrell #amreading

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

I’m listening to Emma Thompson read Emma, while driving, and have accidentally arrived at the Sainsbury’s three towns over.

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

I love this photo because it invokes primal reactions in people. They are the couple everyone wishes they were in high school They represent the summun of popularity and success Those who fall short this ideal cannot help but feel the sting of envy A mirror into your soul

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

It’s my birthday today and to celebrate I’m sharing a pic of the best present anyone has ever sent me, for any occasion, in my entire life. Thank you, thank you @JessicaLeeke @MichaelJBooks @mushenska #MissAustenInvestigates coming Q1 2024

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

10 months

DREAM POST!! I grew this account by sharing a pic of my current read and a cuppa to connect with other readers and writers after my previous one was locked (I posted so many messages about an Austen event, admin thought I was a bot ) #MissAustenInvestigates #JessicaBull 1/2

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@NovelistJessica

1 year

This was the most moving part of my Austen Adventure. Seriously, take tissues #OTD #JaneAusten

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

Things that make my heart happy: 20 yo #JaneAusten , listed as a subscriber to Fanny Burney's Camilla. In 1796, Austen would have had no money of her own - so I can just imagine her persuading her father to subscribe. I feel Burney was to Austen, what Austen is to us/me. #fangirl

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

A 🧵 on the most disturbing moments in #JaneAusten … Caution: a tear has occurred in the green baize fabric of your sweet Regency romance.

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@NovelistJessica

8 months

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Death Comes To Pemberley is back in UK Netflix.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

Obsessed with this absolute treasure of a book, in which fashion historian, Hilary Davidson, brings to life all the jewel-like references to clothing in #JaneAusten ’s letters: Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson. In writing #MissAustenInvestigates , I pored over these. 1/2

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

@jallison02140 Aw, that’s a lovely way to look at it. Thank you 😊

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@NovelistJessica

1 year

In this field stood Steventon Rectory - where #JaneAusten was born 16 December 1775. Her eldest brother, James, planted the tall lime tree!

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

It’s my first day proof dropping for #MissAustenInvestigates and I’m so excited to be following in #JaneAusten ’s footsteps and hitting the streets of Bath! First up, Waterstones on Milsom Street. 1/5

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

I got super confused today, as I went to put my groceries in the boot of my car, only to discover I’d already put them in there. And they’d somehow got more exciting - cream cakes! Even weirder, there was a man sitting in the driving seat. Reader, it was NOT MY CAR! #dying 1/2

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

JJ Field in C18th British officer’s uniform. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

8 months

#JaneAusten famously gave very little detail about the appearance of her characters, but let’s never forget the Price family’s ‘trollopy-looking maidservant’ Rebecca, who had the audacity to wear a flower in her hat on Sundays.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

7 months

I was so proud to spot #MissAustenInvestigates amongst this gorgeous display at @waterstonesbath . My team and I wanted a cover that screamed Jane Austen meets cosy crime. I think they nailed it! ❤️🔍🪶

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

8 months

Me at book signings: So that’s for Pat, P-A-T right? Reader: Are you sure you wrote this book?

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

4 months

More pics from my recent trip to Bath to fool you into thinking this is how I live my life.

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@NovelistJessica

4 months

When I dropped my 13yo daughter off at school this morning she told me she was dreading getting the results of her creative writing test back because everything she writes makes her cringe, and that's how I know she is also going to be an author.

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

Can you relate?

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

2 years

Mrs England by Stacey Halls. I’m still pinching myself that I share an agent with one of my writing idols. Even my mum was impressed, and that doesn’t happen very often. I just hope I can earn my place beside the rising star of historical fiction. #MrsEngland #StaceyHalls

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

@BexBookaholic I have a club like this but it’s just me and my husband. After 15 years he still doesn’t understand what ‘silence’ means but I’m persevering.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

5 months

When in Bath! @TheBathFestival @MichaelJBooks

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

9 months

My mother-in-law popped into Eastbourne Waterstones to carry out a little pre publication day hustle on my behalf. She’s picked up her copy and couldn’t resist telling another couple of customers about it while in store. Writers, make sure to marry into a reading family! 🤣

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

@HallieRubenhold That’s so horrible, I’m sorry. The Five is an incredible powerful and important book. Women are more than the crimes committed against us.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

4 months

Delighted to have arrived at the very spot from which #JaneAusten published her novels to talk to the @SWWJ as part of their 130th birthday year! Such an honour to be part of this celebration 🎉

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

And I thought yesterday was emotional #JaneAusten

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1 year

Walking around Bath Spa and just happened to end up here. Honest, guv. #JaneAusten

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3 months

If you’re feeling blue today, please admire this orange cat who reigns over my local train station.

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1 year

Overheard my daughters describing someone dressing ‘like an author’. I’m gutted to discover 1) there’s a secret dress code and 2) my own children knew about it and didn’t tell me. Apparently it involves ‘ombré maxi dresses: the kind Jacqueline Wilson and English teachers wear’?

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@NovelistJessica

1 year

Getting some much needed reassurance from Paddington, on my way to deliver my first ever author event #bathfestival

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

The strangest thing about reading C18th epistolary novels (Pamela, Evelina) is that young women tell their parents everything, whereas my teenager considers it a gross invasion of her privacy if I ask what she bought for lunch from the school canteen.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

Not letting the weather prevent me from delivering a proof of #MissAustenInvestigates to The Bookshop, Lee-On-Solent.

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Jessica Bull

@NovelistJessica

1 year

Can anyone guess where Jane and I are today? #MissAustenInvestigates

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@NovelistJessica

1 year

The obligatory unboxing video for #MissAustenInvestigates !! 🥰🪶🔍👒

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1 year

Dear mums of 13 year old girls, my 15 year old daughter just came back from a week away with school and sheepishly handed me a necklace she’d bought for me with her own spending money. Hang in there, it really DOES get better 🥺

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

Fanny, when she finds out the play is ‘Lover’s Vows’.

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7 months

Lucy Briars: Mary Bennet P&P 1995, Mr Knightly’s housekeeper Emma 2020. Austen legend 🙌

Alistair Coleman

@alistaircoleman

7 months

Ronald Lacey Arnold “Argh my head is melting” Toht (Raiders of the Lost Ark) The Baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells (Blackadder)

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4 months

My pet hate is cafes that impose a bread ration. It’s one slice per egg. I will die on this hill!

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@NovelistJessica

2 years

In time honoured tradition, Twitter please help me choose an author pic! Tell me honestly, which of these ladies would you be most likely to purchase a Regency murder mystery from? #WritingCommunity (photo credit: )

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2 years

My therapist: So, when did your ‘special interest’ in #JaneAusten begin? Me:

Jane Austen every day

@autojaneausten

2 years

I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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7 months

When you ask your teenager to take a nice photo of you signing your book and she takes the opportunity to destroy you with the 0.5 setting.

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