Interrupting our usual D Scrib fare for a bout of shameless self promotion:
I'm getting a PhD! (trumpet fanfare)
I just received my first acceptance from a doctoral program in English. Still waiting on a few others (and on the funding details for this one), so I can't say for certain where I'll be next year. But I can say that I'll be studying 18th and 19th century British literature.
I'm totally psyched to know I'll be working toward this degree that's been a dream for so long. I'm a little nervous about what this will mean for my already delayed writing career. But those doubts can wait...at least a day!
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Congratulations! I'm so excited for you. Are you going to have to move, or are the programs local?
Writing. It is to laugh. I actually logged on to whine about my day job when I saw your post.
GO YOU! HURRAY! There should be more people getting versed in the art of 17th and 18th century literature.
No move, I only applied to NYC schools. Not a good idea to force the family breadwinner to relocate in favor of the family breadloser :)
Thanks! It's 18th & 19th, though. Milton/Spencer/et al. are a little beyond my ken, so I avoid the 17th century. I pretty much straddle the 18th/19th line (hello, Regency Romances) so I'll have to decide whether to tip back and do the whole Burney/Austen/Radcliffe thing or tip forward and do Austen through Dickens. Tough call.
Congrats!!
Ah, yes. I'm sorry I got that wrong... besides, if you were doing 17th & 18th, you'd be knee-deep in metaphysical poets.
Best to avoid having to read freshman essays on such topics.
Well played, Anneliese. Well played.
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