Malachi Whitaker
@malachiwhitaker.bsky.social
Official account of all things Malachi Whitaker, Yorkshire author, b. Bradford (1895-1976). Moderated by Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse (PhD researcher, Salford University. Winner of Biographers Intl Org Kitty Kelley Fellowship, 2025)
All the best writers begin with "W"!
Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Walt Whitman, our very own Malachi Whitaker!
Oh, and Tara Westover, HG Wells, Charlene White and Edmund White as well ....
(Leeds, Waterstones.)
Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Walt Whitman, our very own Malachi Whitaker!
Oh, and Tara Westover, HG Wells, Charlene White and Edmund White as well ....
(Leeds, Waterstones.)
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
All the best writers begin with "W"!
Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Walt Whitman, our very own Malachi Whitaker!
Oh, and Tara Westover, HG Wells, Charlene White and Edmund White as well ....
(Leeds, Waterstones.)
Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Walt Whitman, our very own Malachi Whitaker!
Oh, and Tara Westover, HG Wells, Charlene White and Edmund White as well ....
(Leeds, Waterstones.)
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Dedicated Malachi Whitaker stand at Waterstones, Bradford displaying "The Journey Home", Malachi's collection of 20 stories (Persephone Books), a couple of weeks back. No sign of Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", reissued in Sept 2025 by @bhousepress.bsky.social
Any updates, Bradfordians?
Any updates, Bradfordians?
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Dedicated Malachi Whitaker stand at Waterstones, Bradford displaying "The Journey Home", Malachi's collection of 20 stories (Persephone Books), a couple of weeks back. No sign of Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", reissued in Sept 2025 by @bhousepress.bsky.social
Any updates, Bradfordians?
Any updates, Bradfordians?
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I so love the name of these two books by Vita Sackville-West 👀🥬
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I so love the name of these two books by Vita Sackville-West 👀🥬
Dedicated Malachi Whitaker stand at Waterstones, Bradford displaying "The Journey Home", Malachi's collection of 20 stories (Persephone Books), a couple of weeks back. No sign of Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", reissued in Sept 2025 by @bhousepress.bsky.social
Any updates, Bradfordians?
Any updates, Bradfordians?
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Dedicated Malachi Whitaker stand at Waterstones, Bradford displaying "The Journey Home", Malachi's collection of 20 stories (Persephone Books), a couple of weeks back. No sign of Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", reissued in Sept 2025 by @bhousepress.bsky.social
Any updates, Bradfordians?
Any updates, Bradfordians?
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Join Diana Wichtel, Sarah Shieff, and me on Dec 9th (Dec 10th in NZ) as we discuss Makeshift, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link:
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November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Join Diana Wichtel, Sarah Shieff, and me on Dec 9th (Dec 10th in NZ) as we discuss Makeshift, the newest title in the Recovered Books series from Boiler House Press.
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-la...
Register for free on Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virtual-la...
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“Bigelow (@neglectedbooks.com) sketches an intimate portrait of Faulkner and makes a convincing case that her efforts were foundational to future Cather researchers. This restores Faulkner to her rightful place in literary history.”—@publisherswkly.bsky.social bit.ly/4o88OSI
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts by Brad Bigelow
Bigelow, an editor at Boiler House Press, debuts with an illuminating biography of Nebraskan writer and editor Virginia Faulkner...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Bigelow (@neglectedbooks.com) sketches an intimate portrait of Faulkner and makes a convincing case that her efforts were foundational to future Cather researchers. This restores Faulkner to her rightful place in literary history.”—@publisherswkly.bsky.social bit.ly/4o88OSI
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Fan dancers, from Sitting Pretty (1933). Choreography by Larry Cebalos, who was clearly a quick study of Busby Berkeley.
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Fan dancers, from Sitting Pretty (1933). Choreography by Larry Cebalos, who was clearly a quick study of Busby Berkeley.
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An essay on murals and public art. Please let me know your comments. 'Life in a Boarding House,' (1930) by Eric Ravilious,' for Morley College, London was destroyed in WW2. richardmorris.org/blog-1-1/mural…
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
An essay on murals and public art. Please let me know your comments. 'Life in a Boarding House,' (1930) by Eric Ravilious,' for Morley College, London was destroyed in WW2. richardmorris.org/blog-1-1/mural…
Ruby Cowling is one of Yorkshire's most talented authors. Published, like Malachi Whitaker, by @bhousepress.bsky.social
Aaaooowww (that is a wolf howl, for some reason; I'm just going with it)
after a hiatus, my book is back in stock at www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
Too late for Christmas but wouldn't you be pleased to get a little package in the new year? What with all the bleak?
£10. Just saying
after a hiatus, my book is back in stock at www.boilerhouse.press/product-page...
Too late for Christmas but wouldn't you be pleased to get a little package in the new year? What with all the bleak?
£10. Just saying
This Paradise by Ruby Cowling | boiler-house-press
Or buy ANY FIVE of BHP New Fiction books to date for A BARGAIN £40..SHORTLISTED for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, 2020 LONGLISTED for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, 2020:"Ruby Cowling's de...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Ruby Cowling is one of Yorkshire's most talented authors. Published, like Malachi Whitaker, by @bhousepress.bsky.social
Nice little precis of the life of 'Marjorie "Malachi" Whitaker' in the newly-released "Book of Bradford" (Comma Press; 2025). But since when has Orwell been known as Eric "George Orwell" Blair?
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Nice little precis of the life of 'Marjorie "Malachi" Whitaker' in the newly-released "Book of Bradford" (Comma Press; 2025). But since when has Orwell been known as Eric "George Orwell" Blair?
Malachi Whitaker's 1929 story "Smoke of the Tide" is included in "The Book of Bradford" alongside contemporary short fictions by Sairish Hussain, Ross Raisin, etc (2025; Comma Press). Malachi's wonderful story is about a night-time "tide" (fair), Bradford & class mobility
November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Malachi Whitaker's 1929 story "Smoke of the Tide" is included in "The Book of Bradford" alongside contemporary short fictions by Sairish Hussain, Ross Raisin, etc (2025; Comma Press). Malachi's wonderful story is about a night-time "tide" (fair), Bradford & class mobility
"I will show you what a woman can do."
Artemesia Gentileschi
Artemesia Gentileschi
Artemisia Gentileschi in 10 Paintings
by Candy Bedworth for @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social
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by Candy Bedworth for @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social
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Artemisia Gentileschi in 10 Paintings
Let's look at 10 paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi, the most celebrated female painter of the 17th century.
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November 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"I will show you what a woman can do."
Artemesia Gentileschi
Artemesia Gentileschi
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Italy’s great forgotten artist is getting her dues 400 years on
Sofonisba Anguissola inspired Caravaggio but has been overlooked by the history books. Two towns in Sicily are looking to put that right
by Julia Buckley for The Sunday Times
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Sofonisba Anguissola inspired Caravaggio but has been overlooked by the history books. Two towns in Sicily are looking to put that right
by Julia Buckley for The Sunday Times
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Italy’s great forgotten artist is getting her dues 400 years on
Sofonisba Anguissola inspired Caravaggio but has been overlooked by the history books. Two towns in Sicily are looking to put that right
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Italy’s great forgotten artist is getting her dues 400 years on
Sofonisba Anguissola inspired Caravaggio but has been overlooked by the history books. Two towns in Sicily are looking to put that right
by Julia Buckley for The Sunday Times
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Sofonisba Anguissola inspired Caravaggio but has been overlooked by the history books. Two towns in Sicily are looking to put that right
by Julia Buckley for The Sunday Times
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Malachi Whitaker always did love travelling by train so it seemed appropriate to take the new edition of her witty 1939 memoir "And So Did I" on a bit of a cross-European jaunt. @neglectedbooks.com @bhousepress.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Malachi Whitaker always did love travelling by train so it seemed appropriate to take the new edition of her witty 1939 memoir "And So Did I" on a bit of a cross-European jaunt. @neglectedbooks.com @bhousepress.bsky.social
Elleke Boehmer and Gerri Kimber after their brilliant discussion of Gerri's new book, "Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life," last week at Waterstones, Hampstead, London. Still thinking about it! A great evening! @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Elleke Boehmer and Gerri Kimber after their brilliant discussion of Gerri's new book, "Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life," last week at Waterstones, Hampstead, London. Still thinking about it! A great evening! @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
@ellekeboehmer.bsky.social
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Self-Portrait, c. 1556, by #SofonisbaAnguissola (Italian, about 1532–1625), who died #otd, Nov 16 -- 400 years ago. Held at the @mfaboston.bsky.social, collections.mfa.org/objects/3365... #artherstory #womenartists
November 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Self-Portrait, c. 1556, by #SofonisbaAnguissola (Italian, about 1532–1625), who died #otd, Nov 16 -- 400 years ago. Held at the @mfaboston.bsky.social, collections.mfa.org/objects/3365... #artherstory #womenartists
Karina Jakubowicz & Gerri Kimber discussing Gerri's new book: "Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life" at Waterstones, Hampstead. The book reveals new research, with academic John Wood, on Mansfield's love affair with "New Age" editor AR Orage @litcamb.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Karina Jakubowicz & Gerri Kimber discussing Gerri's new book: "Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life" at Waterstones, Hampstead. The book reveals new research, with academic John Wood, on Mansfield's love affair with "New Age" editor AR Orage @litcamb.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Fascinating evening at Waterstones, Hampstead, hearing Gerri Kimber in conversation with Karina Jakubowicz & Elleke Boehmer on her new book: Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life. Much discussion about Mansfield's love affair with Yorkshireman AR Orage, editor of The New Age @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Fascinating evening at Waterstones, Hampstead, hearing Gerri Kimber in conversation with Karina Jakubowicz & Elleke Boehmer on her new book: Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life. Much discussion about Mansfield's love affair with Yorkshireman AR Orage, editor of The New Age @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Sitting pretty. Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", among classics including Tara Westover's "Educated" and Charlene White's "No Place Like Home". @waterstones.bsky.social Leeds, Albion Street.
@bhousepress.bsky.social
@neglectedbooks.com
@bhousepress.bsky.social
@neglectedbooks.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Sitting pretty. Malachi Whitaker's 1939 memoir "And So Did I", among classics including Tara Westover's "Educated" and Charlene White's "No Place Like Home". @waterstones.bsky.social Leeds, Albion Street.
@bhousepress.bsky.social
@neglectedbooks.com
@bhousepress.bsky.social
@neglectedbooks.com
Jane Austen. Jan Morris. Malachi Whitaker. Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I" in great company under "Biography" at Leeds Waterstones on Albion Street. @waterstones.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Jane Austen. Jan Morris. Malachi Whitaker. Malachi's 1939 memoir "And So Did I" in great company under "Biography" at Leeds Waterstones on Albion Street. @waterstones.bsky.social @bhousepress.bsky.social
Still no copies of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, "And So Did I" on the dedicated stand at Waterstones in her home city of Bradford. On order apparently. Waiting patiently (with fingers crossed!) @bhousepress.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Still no copies of Malachi Whitaker's light dark n witty 1939 memoir, "And So Did I" on the dedicated stand at Waterstones in her home city of Bradford. On order apparently. Waiting patiently (with fingers crossed!) @bhousepress.bsky.social
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This month is the 400th anniv of the passing of Sofonisba Anguissola. Art Herstory commemorates the moment with a (very) limited edition hard cover journal.
Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...
Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...
Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This month is the 400th anniv of the passing of Sofonisba Anguissola. Art Herstory commemorates the moment with a (very) limited edition hard cover journal.
Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...
Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo...
Available on Etsy as well: www.etsy.com/listing/4383...
It's done!
Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night.
What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience.
Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery
(Valerie Waterhouse)
Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night.
What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience.
Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery
(Valerie Waterhouse)
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
It's done!
Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night.
What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience.
Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery
(Valerie Waterhouse)
Thanks to everyone who came to the talk on Malachi Whitaker for @litcamb.bsky.social last night.
What a privilege to speak with such an engaged and interested audience.
Here, I'm discussing Malachi's story "Unleashed", set in her father's Bradford bookbindery
(Valerie Waterhouse)
So looking forward to this forthcoming book!
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Listen now: Gerri Kimber talks about Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf
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October 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
So looking forward to this forthcoming book!
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life by Gerri Kimber
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Latest sighting of Malachi Whitaker's brilliant 1939 memoir, 'And So Did', at Grove Bookshop, Ilkley. (With a "Signed by the Author" label by her "ghostwriter", obviously!) 😜
@bhousepress.bsky.social
@bhousepress.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Latest sighting of Malachi Whitaker's brilliant 1939 memoir, 'And So Did', at Grove Bookshop, Ilkley. (With a "Signed by the Author" label by her "ghostwriter", obviously!) 😜
@bhousepress.bsky.social
@bhousepress.bsky.social