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Intriguing example of #HerBook! This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture. (Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!) #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚

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Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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On display at The National Archives (UK) this month (Feb 2025), a set of letters allegedly written by the Chevalier d'Eon and brought into court as part of King's Bench proceedings in November 1776. I wrote a short piece about the letters here. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

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‘I need a citation like St Anthony needed beast repellent‘ is a line I fully intend to steal for future evaluations

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RIP David Lynch :( the best ever to do it

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Delighted to have a piece in this on the gendered posthumous legacy of printer-poet Constantia Grierson

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New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

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First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook doi.org/10.1163/9789...

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Much hard work from the inimitably brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social and Jessica Farrell-Jobst sees 'Gender and the Book Trades' now in print. An amazing collection, it includes my first paper on QB expanded as 'Affective Bibliography: Three Queer Approaches to Print'. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

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It is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades. My section is particularly fab (@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social @kandicedarcia.bsky.social). I'm able to send PDFs of our chapter by request! Please let me know if you need access. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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Had the most magical week pre-holidays at the #NewberryLibrary: huge thanks to @noraepstein.bsky.social @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social and all the staff for such a warm welcome! Check out that double volvelle 👀 (Newberry Wing ZP 646 .R57 & Case NE 1070 .S33 1648)

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Trying to get any work done the Friday before Christmas (Het Wonder Leven van de H. Rosa de S. Maria van Lima, 1678, USTC 1537320)

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Women and the booktrade. Elisabeth van Biesen de Haes is found in this impressum under her own name as 'Printer [drukster] of the noble court of Guelders' #bookhistory

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Impressed by Plantin offers the prints of 14,000 woodblocks, freely available for creative reuse. museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...

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Susanna Verbruggen († 1752) was een geestelijke maagd (#klopje of #kwezel) en lid van het Lucas gilde in Antwerpen vanaf 1710 💃 Ze drukte #devotieprenten en kocht in 1727 zo’n 400 pond koperplaten, 2000 à 3000 stuks 💫 Daarbij gravures van Theodoor Galle, die ze voorzag van haar naam ✍️ #nuntastic

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Welcome new followers! Amidst all the excitement of a new platform may I also direct your enthusiasm towards this beautiful 150,000-word behemoth, Gender and the Book Trades, jam-packed with groundbreaking research from 27 brilliant scholars! Out January 15! brill.com/edcollbook/t...

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Delighted to see our SI of Renaissance Studies out in the world now!

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#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

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Call for submissions! Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook Send your research proposals and creative responses to Helen Smith and me by 13th Jan www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...

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Curious what anyone else thinks of this: these are editions of the same text by the same firm in the same year, one with an imprint ascribing it to the widow and heirs of Jan Cnobbaert, one just to the widow. Why might this be? Inheritance drama? (USTC 1835465 & 1536702)

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#HerBook This 15th-century Latin-Dutch-French glossary contains #provenance marks made by women: Mariken Buyens and Lisken Stevens wrote their names on the flyleaves of the manuscript! #bookhistory #rarebooks

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A rare and remarkable occurrence of two female printer-publishers not only working together but using their given names: Yolande Bonhomme's imprint and Charlotte Guillard's colophon in an edition of Augustine published in Paris in 1541 (USTC 204524)! hdl.handle.net/10481/10736

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You know, I usually appreciate someone coming out of the gate swinging with an article opener, but I'm not so sure about this one...

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Today marks the beginning of my British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship studying female collaboration in the early modern book trade- unbelievably excited to get started! I'm going to be better about posting highlights here, watch this space 👀 (USTC 6110476)

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