First day at uni............

[kazalala]

Betty Boop;1326007 wrote: Just found the email I've been waiting for, my results have allowed me to study my first choices for two modules in my final year :guitarist:guitarist Will be studying Women's Writing: Romantic to Modern and Sex, Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Literature. Will also be studying Literature and Environment in the first term. Better start looking for the relevant reading lists and start reading!!

Chonsi, they've not set a word count for the dissertation yet, generally around 8,000 words. Gulp. :-3
Well done you!!!!:guitarist:D

[Betty Boop]

Thank you guys, this is the reading for the Women and Writing module

Anne Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho.

Jane Austin - Northanger Abbey.

Dorothy Wordsworth - The Grasmere Journals.

Charlotte Bronte - Villette.

Charlotte Yonge - The Heir of Redclyffe.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret.

Kate Chopin - The Awakening.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper.

Edith Nesbit - The Railway Children.

Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Lonliness.

[chonsigirl]

Austen and Bronte, what a lovely list to read! I heard Chopin is very good also.

[kazalala]

wow a lot of reading:-2which are you looking forward to the most?:)

[Betty Boop]

kazalala;1326045 wrote: wow a lot of reading:-2which are you looking forward to the most?:)


That's just one half of the reading for the term Kaz, will be doing my dissertation alongside that. Appears that's all happening in the second term, I got it all confused last night, ordered the wrong books first :rolleyes::wah:

First term is Literature and Environment and my choice of Sex, Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Literature and I've just found the reading list for that;

Anon., Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd

Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly

Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Richard Marsh - A Spoiler of Men

Oscar Wilde - The Portrait of Mr. W.H.



There are also reading packs issued for each module, usually quite chunky things with extra reading relevant to each weeks topic. I also have three huge anthologies that may have bits of set reading in them to do week by week. By next year you will all be saying 'where is Betty?'... I'll be in the corner, dozing under a huge pile of books

I also have the strictest lecturer for the above books, show up without your book and he throws you out of seminar, if he realises you've not read it, you get thrown out too, should be fun, I may be in seminar alone a lot of the time going by the standards of the others over the last two years :wah:

[spot]

You might find access to etext copies useful, as well as your paper ones:

Anne Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho.

Jane Austin - Northanger Abbey.

Dorothy Wordsworth - The Grasmere Journals.

Charlotte Bronte - Villette.

Charlotte Yonge - The Heir of Redclyffe.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Lady Audley's Secret.

Kate Chopin - The Awakening.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper.

Edith Nesbit - The Railway Children.

Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness.



Anon., Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd

Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly - Green Tea and Mr. Justice Harbottle

Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly - Carmilla

Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly - The Room In The Dragon Volant

Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly - The Familiar

Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Richard Marsh - A Spoiler of Men

Oscar Wilde - The Portrait of Mr. W.H.

[chonsigirl]

Oh, I am going to use some of those links too, spot. I am downloading Chopin's! What a guy!

[kazalala]

Betty Boop;1326046 wrote: That's just one half of the reading for the term Kaz, will be doing my dissertation alongside that. Appears that's all happening in the second term, I got it all confused last night, ordered the wrong books first :rolleyes::wah:

First term is Literature and Environment and my choice of Sex, Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Literature and I've just found the reading list for that;

Anon., Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Aurora Floyd

Wilkie Collins - Heart and Science

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

Sheridan Le Fanu - In a Glass Darkly

Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Richard Marsh - A Spoiler of Men

Oscar Wilde - The Portrait of Mr. W.H.



There are also reading packs issued for each module, usually quite chunky things with extra reading relevant to each weeks topic. I also have three huge anthologies that may have bits of set reading in them to do week by week. By next year you will all be saying 'where is Betty?'... I'll be in the corner, dozing under a huge pile of books

I also have the strictest lecturer for the above books, show up without your book and he throws you out of seminar, if he realises you've not read it, you get thrown out too, should be fun, I may be in seminar alone a lot of the time going by the standards of the others over the last two years :wah:
you truly have my admiration,, i could never give my attention for that long to study as you have and will be doing.. god,, sometimes your brain must hurt:wah:

[Odie]

chonsigirl;1326050 wrote: Oh, I am going to use some of those links too, spot. I am downloading Chopin's! What a guy!


Are you also taking reading Chonsi or just the one book?

[chonsigirl]

Odie;1326073 wrote: Are you also taking reading Chonsi or just the one book?


Oh, no more classes for me, I just wanted to read that book.

[Betty Boop]

And there's more...

Literature and Environment

J.G. Ballard, High Rise (Flamingo, 1998)

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ed. Pauline Nestor (Penguin, 2003)

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, ed. Patricia Ingham (Penguin, 1996)

Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin, 1998)

William Shakespeare, King Lear, ed. R.A. Foakes (Arden, 1997)

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, ed. J.M. Nosworthy (Arden, 1969)

William Shakespeare, The Poems, ed. Duncan-Jones and Woudhuysen (Arden, 2007)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. Stella McNichol (Penguin, 2000: not the cheap Penguin classic)

Additional shorter texts will be included in a course reading pack.





:-3:-3

[Betty Boop]

Nanny needed for next year, will be responsible for me and two children :wah::wah:

[Odie]

chonsigirl;1326079 wrote: Oh, no more classes for me, I just wanted to read that book.




sounds good to me!

[Odie]

Betty Boop;1326283 wrote: And there's more...

Literature and Environment

J.G. Ballard, High Rise (Flamingo, 1998)

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ed. Pauline Nestor (Penguin, 2003)

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, ed. Patricia Ingham (Penguin, 1996)

Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin, 1998)

William Shakespeare, King Lear, ed. R.A. Foakes (Arden, 1997)

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, ed. J.M. Nosworthy (Arden, 1969)

William Shakespeare, The Poems, ed. Duncan-Jones and Woudhuysen (Arden, 2007)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. Stella McNichol (Penguin, 2000: not the cheap Penguin classic)

Additional shorter texts will be included in a course reading pack.





:-3:-3


good grief woman, how will you get thru all of those?

[kazalala]

Betty Boop;1326283 wrote: And there's more...

Literature and Environment

J.G. Ballard, High Rise (Flamingo, 1998)

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ed. Pauline Nestor (Penguin, 2003)

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, ed. Patricia Ingham (Penguin, 1996)

Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin, 1998)

William Shakespeare, King Lear, ed. R.A. Foakes (Arden, 1997)

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, ed. J.M. Nosworthy (Arden, 1969)

William Shakespeare, The Poems, ed. Duncan-Jones and Woudhuysen (Arden, 2007)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. Stella McNichol (Penguin, 2000: not the cheap Penguin classic)

Additional shorter texts will be included in a course reading pack.





:-3:-3
well i have read Wuthering Heights:wah:

[Bryn Mawr]

Betty Boop;1326283 wrote: And there's more...

Literature and Environment

J.G. Ballard, High Rise (Flamingo, 1998)

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ed. Pauline Nestor (Penguin, 2003)

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, ed. Patricia Ingham (Penguin, 1996)

Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin, 1998)

William Shakespeare, King Lear, ed. R.A. Foakes (Arden, 1997)

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, ed. J.M. Nosworthy (Arden, 1969)

William Shakespeare, The Poems, ed. Duncan-Jones and Woudhuysen (Arden, 2007)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. Stella McNichol (Penguin, 2000: not the cheap Penguin classic)

Additional shorter texts will be included in a course reading pack.





:-3:-3


Those three lists represent an incredible amount of reading - especially if you have to analyse the text.

I take my hat off to you but, rather you than me

[Betty Boop]

Bryn Mawr;1326473 wrote: Those three lists represent an incredible amount of reading - especially if you have to analyse the text.

I take my hat off to you but, rather you than me


It's the same workload I've done for the last two years, almost, all other terms have involved two of those kind of lists, our final term has only one list as I will be writing my dissertation alongside the last module. I've started reading

[Betty Boop]

Betty Boop;1326283 wrote: And there's more...

Literature and Environment

J.G. Ballard, High Rise (Flamingo, 1998)

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, ed. Pauline Nestor (Penguin, 2003)

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South, ed. Patricia Ingham (Penguin, 1996)

Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes (Penguin, 1998)

William Shakespeare, King Lear, ed. R.A. Foakes (Arden, 1997)

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, ed. J.M. Nosworthy (Arden, 1969)

William Shakespeare, The Poems, ed. Duncan-Jones and Woudhuysen (Arden, 2007)

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. Stella McNichol (Penguin, 2000: not the cheap Penguin classic)

Additional shorter texts will be included in a course reading pack.





:-3:-3


Nope, it's all change again, that's the wrong reading list apparently!! AAAGGGHHHH

This is what needs to be ordered

· William Shakespeare, King Lear

· William Shakespeare, The Tempest

· Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

· Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

· George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

· Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native

· Winifred Holtby, South Riding

· D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover

[chonsigirl]

Oh, another long list Betty!

[Odie]

and just when you had it all figured out..they change it.:rolleyes:

typical eh?

[Betty Boop]

Eeeek deadlines looming... no rest for the wicked.

2000 words on a Victorian Scandal by 1st November and another 2000 on a Literary Trail due on the 8th November.

In between both due dates I am also being whisked away by my family, a birthday treat, should be fun :driving:

[Betty Boop]

Why am I doing this again....

Shattered, handed in an essay today that was pure hell to write lol ecocriticism - not my favourite theory to tackle.

Two 3,000 word essays looming for December hand ins - eeeeeek!!

Presentation to be prepared for December too.

As well as a full outline of my dissertation.

In between all that, I still need to get through two books a week.

[Betty Boop]

I'm not a happy bunny right now. I've just seen my timetable for next term.

A 9am lecture on a Monday morning and a seminar on a Wednesday from 3pm til 5pm. Add in to those times that the fact that it takes me an hour to travel to uni and another hour back that's around four hours of childcare that I can't afford!! And this is supposed to be a mature student friendly course!! :-5:-5:-5

[Betty Boop]

Dissertation outline - done

One essay mostly complete, just another 1800 words to add to the second one tomorrow :-3

My living room resembles a very messy library right now! :wah:

[chonsigirl]

Yeah Betty!

[Betty Boop]

Phew, uni broke up yesterday, everything handed in on time thank god! Just a literary trail to do over the Christmas, oh and next terms reading which glancing at the recent emails I now have a change of tutor for and a change to the reading list!!! grrrrr

[Betty Boop]

First day at uni is soon to become Last day at uni I hope.

My last term of contact hours twice a week ends next week, then it's a few weeks of pure dissertation writing, alongside a 3,000 word essay, and a 2,000 word portfolio due beginning of April.

My oh my, however am I going to get it all done!

[chonsigirl]

How exciting, the end is in sight!

[Odie]

Betty Boop;1356269 wrote: First day at uni is soon to become Last day at uni I hope.

My last term of contact hours twice a week ends next week, then it's a few weeks of pure dissertation writing, alongside a 3,000 word essay, and a 2,000 word portfolio due beginning of April.

My oh my, however am I going to get it all done!


just think your almost there and you've conquered all your other projects!:-6

[Bryn Mawr]

Betty Boop;1356269 wrote: First day at uni is soon to become Last day at uni I hope.

My last term of contact hours twice a week ends next week, then it's a few weeks of pure dissertation writing, alongside a 3,000 word essay, and a 2,000 word portfolio due beginning of April.

My oh my, however am I going to get it all done!


After three years of hard work another few thousand words will be easy knowing they're your last

You must be proud of getting this far - think how it will feel when you qualify :-6

[Betty Boop]

Bryn Mawr;1356323 wrote: After three years of hard work another few thousand words will be easy knowing they're your last

You must be proud of getting this far - think how it will feel when you qualify :-6


I know, at least the dissertation part is your own choice and something that you really like. Have spent half of today reading around the history of 'reading', quite fascinating.

Need to be really strict and focused now, limited time left for all this and think I have blank page syndrome :wah:

[Bryn Mawr]

Betty Boop;1356326 wrote: I know, at least the dissertation part is your own choice and something that you really like. Have spent half of today reading around the history of 'reading', quite fascinating.

Need to be really strict and focused now, limited time left for all this and think I have blank page syndrome :wah:


You've got the routine by now - start with the bits you know and are comfortable with and then fill in the gaps as the ideas start to flow.



One more push and you're done, let no blank pages stand in your way

[Betty Boop]

Handed in the portfolio yesterday, now there is a 2000 word unmarked piece due that my lecturer is threatening she won't read it if I don't have it done by a certain time. I currently have huge mitigating circumstances with all the reasons on my file, yet this woman has decided that because she was strict with my peers she will be strict with me. So much for mature student support :rolleyes:

[Bryn Mawr]

Betty Boop;1356964 wrote: Handed in the portfolio yesterday, now there is a 2000 word unmarked piece due that my lecturer is threatening she won't read it if I don't have it done by a certain time. I currently have huge mitigating circumstances with all the reasons on my file, yet this woman has decided that because she was strict with my peers she will be strict with me. So much for mature student support :rolleyes:


What's the chances of getting it done on time and saying "up yours madam"?

[Betty Boop]

Bryn Mawr;1356982 wrote: What's the chances of getting it done on time and saying "up yours madam"?


I will have a go at it, what I object to is being spoken at like I am skiving. This is the third run in I have had with this particular tutor, each time she has been rude and un-supportive.

[Bryn Mawr]

Betty Boop;1356983 wrote: I will have a go at it, what I object to is being spoken at like I am skiving. This is the third run in I have had with this particular tutor, each time she has been rude and un-supportive.


Then you will very shortly have your opportunity to make that clear to her employers - after you've graduated

[Betty Boop]

Bryn Mawr;1356986 wrote: Then you will very shortly have your opportunity to make that clear to her employers - after you've graduated


hehehe I attend the graduation ceremony tomorrow, but technically I'm not finished yet. Had to have my dissertation deferred for personal reasons, I submit it later in the year. Feels a bit odd to attend the graduation ceremony having not actually finished, I guess everyone else has a sense of relief about them, hopefully that will come for me later this year hey.

[theia]

Betty Boop;1363083 wrote: hehehe I attend the graduation ceremony tomorrow, but technically I'm not finished yet. Had to have my dissertation deferred for personal reasons, I submit it later in the year. Feels a bit odd to attend the graduation ceremony having not actually finished, I guess everyone else has a sense of relief about them, hopefully that will come for me later this year hey.


It will, Betty, it will. You've done brilliantly over the past three years.

Oh, and you looked stunning in your graduation clothes...quite the professional academic

[Betty Boop]

theia;1363085 wrote: It will, Betty, it will. You've done brilliantly over the past three years.

Oh, and you looked stunning in your graduation clothes...quite the professional academic


Thank you for coming shopping with me, twice :wah:

Thank you for the compliment, felt odd to be back in office type clothes and heels :wah:

[theia]

Betty Boop;1363088 wrote: Thank you for coming shopping with me, twice :wah:

Thank you for the compliment, felt odd to be back in office type clothes and heels :wah:


Well, you did change horses in mid stream :wah:

But it was well worth it...you looked incredible, particularly loved the shoes, the bag and the top :-6

[Betty Boop]

theia;1363091 wrote: Well, you did change horses in mid stream :wah:

But it was well worth it...you looked incredible, particularly loved the shoes, the bag and the top :-6


Even my shiny shoes :wah: Thank you

Everything is ready, all clothes ironed, Mike likes his shirt and purple tie, Megan loves the silky rosebud dress, have even done my nails, time for bath then bed I think. Going to be a long day tomorrow!

[flopstock]

Betty Boop;1363083 wrote: hehehe I attend the graduation ceremony tomorrow, but technically I'm not finished yet. Had to have my dissertation deferred for personal reasons, I submit it later in the year. Feels a bit odd to attend the graduation ceremony having not actually finished, I guess everyone else has a sense of relief about them, hopefully that will come for me later this year hey.


Get us a pic or two!

[chonsigirl]

*dabbing eyes with hankie*



Our girl is graduating.....................

[Betty Boop]

flopstock;1363195 wrote: Get us a pic or two!


maybe...



chonsigirl;1363365 wrote: *dabbing eyes with hankie*



Our girl is graduating.....................


I needed a hankie :wah: Floella insists on two kisses, grabbing both hands and having quite a conversation with each graduate, my main aim was to get off the stage as soon as possible but she was having none of it :wah:

[siniovvitia]

Shovelling snow could be preferable to the hours I've just spent sat here preparing another presentation for tomorrow.

[Betty Boop]

Betty Boop;1363083 wrote: hehehe I attend the graduation ceremony tomorrow, but technically I'm not finished yet. Had to have my dissertation deferred for personal reasons, I submit it later in the year. Feels a bit odd to attend the graduation ceremony having not actually finished, I guess everyone else has a sense of relief about them, hopefully that will come for me later this year hey.


All done, I have my degree!!

It's not really sunk in yet :wah:

[Bryn Mawr]

Betty Boop;1373530 wrote: All done, I have my degree!!

It's not really sunk in yet :wah:


Does this mean that we now have to curtsy when we meet you?

Congratulations :-6