Yes! @creutcke.bsky.social and I had to get some extra sightseeing in a few days early 😁

Shame 😶

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

Ledger stone of Antwerp almanac publisher Godtgaf Verhulst in Our Lady Cathedral, Antwerp, with his first, second AND third wives. Pretty crowded 😬

Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)

In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory

How did economic transformations alter women’s work and vice versa? Ariadne Schmidt examines developments in the historiography on women’s work and pleads for a diversified approach to better understand the interplay between gender relations and the economy. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

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)

I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips

#WomensHistoryMonth

women reading/reading women:

- earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com #HerBook
- earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au
- www.emwmlibrary.com
- franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com
- recirc.universityofgalway.ie

Intriguing example of #HerBook!

This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture.

(Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!)

#earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚

Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this 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/...

So exciting! Congrats Zanna!

On display at The National Archives (UK) this month (Feb 2025), a set of letters allegedly written by the Chevalier d'Eon and brought into court as part of King's Bench proceedings in November 1776. I wrote a short piece about the letters here. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

‘I need a citation like St Anthony needed beast repellent‘ is a line I fully intend to steal for future evaluations

Thank you Shannon!!!

Thanks Liesbeth! 😁

Of course! It’s a brilliant piece. @bibliowingate.bsky.social are you happy to send a PDF or shall I?

RIP David Lynch :( the best ever to do it

Delighted to have a piece in this on the gendered posthumous legacy of printer-poet Constantia Grierson

New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...

First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook
doi.org/10.1163/9789...

Much hard work from the inimitably brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social and Jessica Farrell-Jobst sees 'Gender and the Book Trades' now in print. An amazing collection, it includes my first paper on QB expanded as 'Affective Bibliography: Three Queer Approaches to Print'.

brill.com/edcollchap/b...

It is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades. My section is particularly fab (@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social @kandicedarcia.bsky.social). I'm able to send PDFs of our chapter by request! Please let me know if you need access.

brill.com/edcollbook/t...