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Author: Emily Turner
By day, journalist.
By night, postgraduate researcher and doctoral candidate at the University of Sussex, studying the medical humanities in the Victorian period.
Occasional artist.
Identity, resistance, and doubled gazes in Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) and The Handmaiden (2016)
Several fates befall paintings in 2019’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire – defacement, distortion, conflagration. Early in the film, … More
An Apparition Appears #3
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An Apparition Appears #2
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The Apparition – a spectral sound
I’ve jumped on the quaranzine bandwagon and made a wee newsletter called The Apparition. I’ll post them up here but … More
Chichester exhibition showcases radical women artists of early 20th century
One of the leading women modernists of the early 20th century, Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939) used her art to respond to … More
A week in Copenhagen
I came back from Copenhagen in early September. I’d spent a week in the city, staying near the Lergravsparken metro … More
Searching for spirits
I was very inspired by this Polaroid of the haunted landscape behind M.R. James’ childhood Suffolk home, taken at dusk … More
About me
I’m Emily, an apprentice journalist, a nearly-done PhD student, a writer and an occasional picture-maker. My thing is the long … More
Hybrid faiths, occult religions, and esoteric beliefs: a review of Spirit Matters and The Occult Imagination in Britain
I was lucky enough to review two texts on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spirituality for the British Association of Victorian … More
