Kristin Bluemel Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Monmouth University professor, scholar of rural modernity and modern British literature, children's book history, and visual cultures. #RuralModernity

Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different at the Time
Inez Holden
Rod Mengham reviews Inez Holden's "Blitz Writing: Night Shift and It Was Different at the Time" as "essential documents of the Blitz" @TheTLS. Support Handheld Press @KateHandheld and buy books by women writers. Holden's Blitz Writing a bargain at ÂŁ12.99. https://t.co/qJHt7DP1Ug
Out of stock

History of British Birds: Volume 2, Containing the History and Description of Water Birds
Thomas Bewick
Happiness: my very own copies of Thomas Bewick’s History of British Birds (Vols. 1&2), 1826 edition. They arrived yesterday from a rare book dealer in Kansas. Surprise bonus— Percy Lubbock’s signature adorns the inside front cover of each volume, dated 1929. https://t.co/kDdzEROiKi
Paperback, 2013
$55.99$30.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Peter Rabbit: Trick or Treat
Beatrix Potter
Today 1:15-2:15 (EST) I present "Preserving Peter Rabbit: Beatrix Potter, the Lake District, and Conservative Modernity." Zoom in if you'd like: https://t.co/0gqisSxdKZ
Board Book, 2022
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Living Alone
Stella Benson
@Sfrajett Not to mention Stella Benson’s Living Alone (1920). Now there’s a queer novel with witches in air battles over southern England.
Paperback, 2021
$6.99$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London
D. J. Taylor
My review of Sylvia Topp's bio of Orwell coming out in Orwell Studies . . . Thank you @MeganLFaragher. I recommend D.J. Taylor's The Lost Girls for an alternative approach to biographies of women in GO's life. https://t.co/2VAMcyEldn
Hardcover, 2020
$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book