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Erica Robert Pallo
@ericarobertpallo.bsky.social
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Work: @HarvardLibrary.bsky.social‬. Study: @Harvard.edu‬. Curator of stories: early modern women’s writing, Restoration theatre, cinema/tv, myth/vampires. Upcoming podcast: @CineStoryteller.bsky.social. Website: EricaRobertPallo.com.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · Nov 8
I am a library assistant at Baker Library at Harvard University as well as a graduate student there in English. My studies focus on Aphra Behn & other 17th-century English women playwrights within Restoration Theatre, and using digital methods to present them. I also research vampire lore in cinema.
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Clare Lees @clarelees.bsky.social · 22d
New exhibition explores history of decorative borders: from medieval manuscripts to William Morris
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New exhibition explores history of decorative borders: from medieval manuscripts to William Morris
The new show at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery covers the late medieval age to the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 12d
Look how pretty she is! I received my author copies of /Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy/ today (officially published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on Monday). Will post more about individual chapters (including my own) next week - in the meantime, do ask your library to order a copy!
book with details from an early modern map on the cover
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
Fresh feta cheese twist, perfect drip coffee, and graduate research homework in a cafe that makes me feel like I’m in Los Angeles, California while actually being in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ❤️
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)

Boston Athenaeum Library.
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871) Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871) Volume 4. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871) Plays: Volume 2. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871) Plays: Volume 4. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790).
John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790). Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790). Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
George Washington’s personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) that most certainly influenced his views on what democracy could be.
George Washington’s (rebound) personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) at the Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025 Portrait of George Washington at the Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
A 19th-century list of the books borrowed from the Boston Athenaeum Library by Louisa May Alcott.
A 19th-century list of the books borrowed from the Boston Athenaeum Library by Louisa May Alcott. 8 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
The 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide (written by sadistic, power-hungry, pathetic men who preyed on the vulnerable). And a 21st-century artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft.

Boston Athenaeum Library.
The 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025 Details about the the 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025 Artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025 Details about an artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
Artworks.

Boston Athenaeum Library.
Historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Description of a historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Description of a historical book at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
Dumbwaiter etiquette.

Boston Athenaeum Library.
Description of etiquette expected for a dumbwaiter at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Dumbwaiter at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
“Analog” card catalogs (for any in the audience who’ve never seen them before).

Boston Athenaeum Library.
Card catalogs at the Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Card catalogs at the Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
Railings & stairways.

Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
Ceilings & roofs.

Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025. Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
What an exhibition! I’ll be visiting many more times but for now, here are a few highlights.

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@edward.gorey.house
From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025. From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025. Opening reception of the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
E is for Edward (Gorey) who was gloomy and glorious.

H is for Harvard (University) and Houghton (Library) where Edward’s malaise and macabre pen did and does good work.

S is spectacular because that is what Edward was.
From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025. From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025. From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025. From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
Just casually being a Henry Louis Gates Jr. fangirl tonight as he promotes his new book, The New Negro, co-authored with Martha H. Patterson.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
You think you know a few things about the US government and how we are barely holding onto democracy by a thread, and then you hear Reich talk. It’s much worse. But there’s still hope. 🤞

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Robert Reich talking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2 September 2025. Robert Reich talking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2 September 2025. Robert Reich talking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2 September 2025.
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
…but I greatly admire Reich’s passion for the underdog and his aggressive approach to fighting bullies (like the US President). Check out his viral videos and countless interviews (he recently chatted live with Steven Colbert).
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
I accidentally absorbed some of what they explained to me. I finally understood how social justice, democracy, and cultures throughout history were influenced by economics, and not always negatively. Problems still abound (especially now), and there is never one size to fit all…
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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 12d
When I was an undergrad at University of California at Berkeley, Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social was still teaching there. I have never taken a university Economics course in my life, but I had friends at the time who were in his classes. He changed their lives and by extension, my own.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13d
The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · 12d
CFP: Cavendish and Politics.
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference | Faculty of Arts | UNB
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 12d
This quote:
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 18d
Chiming in on Lynn Hunt. A gorgeous prose writer - and she works at it, which is why I also love assigning this by her! www.historians.org/perspectives...
How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 12d
Just finished a live chat for Talking Tudors @onthetudortrail.bsky.social on Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. There were some great questions!

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 15d
I've been looking for moments like this ever since I read Gerda Lerner: moments when Renaissance women find other women writers and claim them.

To that end, let me show you the best thing I've ever seen in an archive: a little note, in Mary Wroth's copy of Eusebius.
Someone has underlined "Hypatia a woman of great lear-ning."
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