Alexandra E. LaGrand
@aelagrand.bsky.social
PhD Candidate studying Romantic women + breeches roles | views my own | project director @pointslikeaman.bsky.social
Celebrating reaching 8,000 performance records on my database today 🎉 Since @pointslikeaman.bsky.social launched in 2023, it has grown exponentially, reaching 8,033 performances by 1,090 actresses at 133 theatres, representing 90 roles across 25 Shakespearean plays in cities throughout the world.
June 15, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Celebrating reaching 8,000 performance records on my database today 🎉 Since @pointslikeaman.bsky.social launched in 2023, it has grown exponentially, reaching 8,033 performances by 1,090 actresses at 133 theatres, representing 90 roles across 25 Shakespearean plays in cities throughout the world.
Had a lovely time virtually presenting my paper on “Britain in Breeches: Silvia, The Recruiting Officer, and the War of 1812, a section of my dissertation, at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference today! ✨
March 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Had a lovely time virtually presenting my paper on “Britain in Breeches: Silvia, The Recruiting Officer, and the War of 1812, a section of my dissertation, at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference today! ✨
Thanks to the #Shax2025 Book Exhibits, I was finally able to get my own copies of @mgyarn.bsky.social’s and @chelseaphillips.bsky.social’s books! So very excited to read these 🥰
March 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Thanks to the #Shax2025 Book Exhibits, I was finally able to get my own copies of @mgyarn.bsky.social’s and @chelseaphillips.bsky.social’s books! So very excited to read these 🥰
Though I don’t have a playbill for Bernhardt’s performances as Hamlet at the Adelphi, I do have one for her as Hamlet at the Garden Theatre in New York! ✨
March 13, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Though I don’t have a playbill for Bernhardt’s performances as Hamlet at the Adelphi, I do have one for her as Hamlet at the Garden Theatre in New York! ✨
Had a wonderful time guest lecturing on Charlotte Cushman today in @moxymolly.bsky.social’s Theatrical Women class at Mary Baldwin! Thank you so much for having me ☺️
March 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Had a wonderful time guest lecturing on Charlotte Cushman today in @moxymolly.bsky.social’s Theatrical Women class at Mary Baldwin! Thank you so much for having me ☺️
New postcards for @pointslikeaman.bsky.social arrived! ✨ Looking forward to sharing these with folks at @saaupdates.bsky.social in Boston soon! 🎩
March 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
New postcards for @pointslikeaman.bsky.social arrived! ✨ Looking forward to sharing these with folks at @saaupdates.bsky.social in Boston soon! 🎩
Those who know me know my favorite archival items in the world are prompt books. Never in my life did I think I would be able to own one. I am absolutely in awe to now own this prompt book of Macbeth from an 1878 production at the Paterson Opera House in New Jersey ✨
March 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Those who know me know my favorite archival items in the world are prompt books. Never in my life did I think I would be able to own one. I am absolutely in awe to now own this prompt book of Macbeth from an 1878 production at the Paterson Opera House in New Jersey ✨
Had a blast presenting my database, Points Like A Man (@pointslikeaman.bsky.social), today as part of CoDHR’s Digital Humanities Project Poster Showcase! ✨
February 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Had a blast presenting my database, Points Like A Man (@pointslikeaman.bsky.social), today as part of CoDHR’s Digital Humanities Project Poster Showcase! ✨
So I may have acquired an 1830’s scrapbook of theatrical clippings and it just arrived 🤗 Thirty-five pages front and back absolutely covered with notices of productions throughout America, Britain, and Canada. I’m in awe and simply can’t believe I found it!
February 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
So I may have acquired an 1830’s scrapbook of theatrical clippings and it just arrived 🤗 Thirty-five pages front and back absolutely covered with notices of productions throughout America, Britain, and Canada. I’m in awe and simply can’t believe I found it!
Latest acquisition to my personal collection of actress ephemera has arrived! ✨ I’m so excited to have gotten this manuscript letter written by comic actress Frances Abington around 1800. My next bit of fun will be sleuthing around to figure out who the “Miss Smith” is to whom she wrote the letter!
February 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Latest acquisition to my personal collection of actress ephemera has arrived! ✨ I’m so excited to have gotten this manuscript letter written by comic actress Frances Abington around 1800. My next bit of fun will be sleuthing around to figure out who the “Miss Smith” is to whom she wrote the letter!
Also, did I even go if I didn’t get a tote bag and goodies? ☺️ (and thanks to the Newberry Bookshop, I was finally able to snag a copy of @manionjen.bsky.social’s Female Husbands!)
January 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Also, did I even go if I didn’t get a tote bag and goodies? ☺️ (and thanks to the Newberry Bookshop, I was finally able to snag a copy of @manionjen.bsky.social’s Female Husbands!)
Had a lovely time at the Early Modern Trans Archives workshop at the Newberry Library! ✨ It was so validating to be amongst such wonderful, brilliant, joyful, and supportive scholars.
January 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Had a lovely time at the Early Modern Trans Archives workshop at the Newberry Library! ✨ It was so validating to be amongst such wonderful, brilliant, joyful, and supportive scholars.
Many thanks to Broadview, SUNY Press, and the University of Delaware Press for the books 🥰 #MLA25
I am particularly giddy to finally have my own copy of @drosvally.bsky.social’s Theatres of Value! ✨
I am particularly giddy to finally have my own copy of @drosvally.bsky.social’s Theatres of Value! ✨
January 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Many thanks to Broadview, SUNY Press, and the University of Delaware Press for the books 🥰 #MLA25
I am particularly giddy to finally have my own copy of @drosvally.bsky.social’s Theatres of Value! ✨
I am particularly giddy to finally have my own copy of @drosvally.bsky.social’s Theatres of Value! ✨
Proofs ✅ It was a nice birthday treat to see the proofs of my upcoming article. Excited to see it in print soon!
December 22, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Proofs ✅ It was a nice birthday treat to see the proofs of my upcoming article. Excited to see it in print soon!
Here’s to 29 (and to Carolina basketball) ✨
December 22, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Here’s to 29 (and to Carolina basketball) ✨
The newest acquisitions to my collection: prints of Charlotte Cushman’s farewell to the stage in New York and Sarah Siddons’s cottage! ✨
December 18, 2024 at 10:14 PM
The newest acquisitions to my collection: prints of Charlotte Cushman’s farewell to the stage in New York and Sarah Siddons’s cottage! ✨
An absolute dream day. This morning, I met with entertainment curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History to see costumes worn by actress Charlotte Cushman!
December 7, 2024 at 12:03 AM
An absolute dream day. This morning, I met with entertainment curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History to see costumes worn by actress Charlotte Cushman!
My #DayofDH has been spent adding more performances to my backlog for @pointslikeaman.bsky.social! ✨🎩
December 2, 2024 at 6:31 PM
My #DayofDH has been spent adding more performances to my backlog for @pointslikeaman.bsky.social! ✨🎩
How am I supposed to leave to go work on campus when she looks at me like this in the morning with her cute face and little purrs?
November 20, 2024 at 2:44 PM
How am I supposed to leave to go work on campus when she looks at me like this in the morning with her cute face and little purrs?
I posted this on X before migrating over, but I’m still reeling from it so I will post it here too. At a bookstore in DC, I happened upon a copy of Longfellow’s New England Tragedies with actress Charlotte Cushman’s bookplate on the inside cover.
November 19, 2024 at 1:23 PM
I posted this on X before migrating over, but I’m still reeling from it so I will post it here too. At a bookstore in DC, I happened upon a copy of Longfellow’s New England Tragedies with actress Charlotte Cushman’s bookplate on the inside cover.
