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So excited that today is publication day for my @boydellbrewer @CatholicismsEM book! Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/pr…
#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers:
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027
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Exciting times for two of our IMEMS Press authors, Chelsea Reutke and Elise Watson! Many congratulations on the publication of two wonderfully thought-provoking monographs. @CReutcke @elisewatson_
Great launch event at #EMBIC2026 for the series' two publications so far this year: Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, and Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age by @CReutcke and @elisewatson_ #twitterstorians #history #bookhistory #earlymodern
Have rarely felt so supported and welcome anywhere as EMBIC! An absolute joy to launch our books there
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There are parts of academia that remain toxic and challenging, but I felt a real counterbalance to this at #EMBIC2026 when academics gathered to launch two books by pioneering ECR scholars in the field. It was an honour to play a small part in organising the event (1/2)
Another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: From 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt sent his daughter Janne to buy books in Antwerp and settle his accounts for him (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch 60 f 2)
I'm working on a chapter about fictitious women in early modern paratexts and here's something I thought I'd never see: the widow of Susanna Soldaten-crans bravely carrying on her late wife's business in 1662? I love false imprints (USTC 1844238)
Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project 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/eve…
A Fathers Advice to his Son at the University (Edinburgh, 1693), cautions ‘the Carriage of a Naughty Woman‘: loud, stubborn and in the streets. It was printed/sold by Agnes Campbell & Martha Stevenson, both of whom ‘loud and stubborn‘ doesn't even begin to cover! (USTC 3126281)
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no one has ever understood the world like david lynch did. how lucky we are that he showed us what he saw xitter.cf/wifekisser303/status/1…
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the only thing i can think right now is how dearly his films held the lives of women: to say the woman is both the only subject of cinema and that lynch's movies are always about movies, is to also know his narratives gave broken women around the world true glimpses of survival.
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🖋️!Nueva publicación!
Por fin está disponible mi capítulo sobre la gestión de la biblioteca de las duquesas de Almodóvar y los peligros de los libros @CIRGEN1 @MonicaBoluferP
Thanks to @elisewatson_ and Jessica Farrell-Jobst😊
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Thrilled to announce the publication of my chapter on nonconformist women in the Restoration book trade! Huge thanks to @elisewatson_ and Jessica Farrel-Jobst for putting together this brilliant volume on Gender and the Book Trade.
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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/title/7…
In Part 8: Towards Inclusive Histories, Kirk Melnikoff examines London women's involvement in book-trade wills, Kate Ozment and @kandicedarcia explore approaches to gendered marketing and authorship, and Malcolm Noble pioneers queer ways to interact with books (pp. 430, 450, 476)
If you are interested in any of these chapters, I'm sure the authors will be very willing to share their brilliant research. Please consider ordering a copy for your library or, even better, reviewing the book for a copy of your own. Thank you for reading a long thread! #herbook