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Carlisle Yingst

@ceyingst.bsky.social

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researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · Aug 1

my institutional email address imploded this morning - before it happened, i tried to broadcast more stable contact details to anyone who might not have them, but if for whatever reason you're here trying to figure out where to reach me, you can find that on my website: ceyingst.org/contact/

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 5d

we're happy to be flexible if that means we technically get to pay you less!

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 5d

thank you Deidre!!

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 5d

yeah, it wasn't great! in retrospect a lot of the admin around it was more than a little off

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 5d

thank you Jason!! i appreciate the kind words, and your sharing this :)

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 5d

thank you, yeah - it thankfully wasn't a long or especially expensive trip, and the expense policy was already pretty....limited in what they'd pay for, but still a really not great experience!

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 5d

anyway, apropos of nothing, if anyone needs provide editing, proofreading, or archival/special collections/bibliographical research services, I have those skills that can be used on a freelance basis and otherwise

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 8d

it does appear to have been a style though! (i'm very interested in c18 pocket books in general so was curious :))

campuspress.yale.edu/lewiswalpole...

blogs.loc.gov/manuscripts/...

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 8d

oooooh, that's a beautiful one! i've seen a bunch of 18th century pocket books, though can't remember a vellum bound one quite like that off the top of my head (though my sample may be biased by my interest in later rather than earlier c18 examples)

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 9d

i have truly angered the captcha gods (by just trying to access resources in a normal research kind of way)

another stuck captcha, now a cloudflare captcha on www.tandfonline.com

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 9d

all i want to do is check a word in the OED, and i am now in an infinite loop where the captcha restarts regardless of my success in identifying AI beds, hats, bags, or buckets

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 9d

gotta love having to identify random objects in a set of obviously AI-generated images in order to prove you're sufficiently human to access research resources overrun by bots, which are presumably slamming the servers hosting said resources with attempts to scrape them for AI

"Let's confirm you are human: Complete the security check before continuing. This step verifies that you are not a bot, which helps to protect your account and prevent spam."

"Let's confirm you are human / Choose all the hats" followed by a 3x3 grid of AI generated images of hats, buckets, beds, and bags

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 15d

more practically: since it seems it was an error introduced by the pub. after you saw the proofs, have you asked if there's any possibility of correcting it in the digital version of the journal, if not print? depending on how they typeset, it might be possible... if not, could they issue an errata?

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 15d

oh no - i'm sorry! I'm not sure if this helps, but I'll offer my view as a former proofreader, in case it does: errors of all kinds often slip through even three or four rounds of proofing! it's rare for me to read an article/book and *not* find *some* error -

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 22d

I'm at the Bodleian for the month - they have the 1888 at least, which I could call up and take a quick look at (usefully relevant to my interests as well)

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 22d

(archive.org/details/gard...)

The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Series numbering dropped with v. 139, no. 1

archive.org

Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 22d

The Advertisers' ABC perhaps? (this snippet review from the gardener's chronicle mentions that article on Gigantic Advertising). It was published by TB Browne, which tracks with the attribution of the Cadbury advert - though it was only first published in 1886

snippet from the Gardener's Chronicle on the Advertisers' ABC

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 22d

Does anyone recognise this late Victorian periodical? Based on the page numbers this is obvs an article from a larger work but I can’t trace it anywhere. It’s got lots of full-page images & I’m confident for various reasons that it was produced in 1881.

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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 27d

very lucky to have gotten an early look at this! ali smith readers & those interested in novels, serialisation, and the physical book in general, look out for this very soon -

Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 29d

Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.