Interests: antiques, art history, being pretentious, belle epoque, bookbinding, catholicismchurches, creative writing, crows, cyrillic, databases, decadence, decay, deshabille, dictionaries, editing, edwardian era, epiphanies, extended metaphor, fairy tales, feminism, fiction, fisticuffs, fuchsia, illuminated manuscripts, lesbianism, library science, literature, london, marginalia, medieval art, nabokov, nineteenth century, palimpsests, postmodern literature, publishing, reading, renaissance, romantic shit, romantics, semantics, speculative fiction, spending hours online, strange people, synaesthesia, the smiths, the unheimlich, typologies, victorian era, writing, wunderkammer, wwi