the little seamstress 🪡📚
@littleseamstress.bsky.social
Rach's ramshackle curiosity shop of books, sewing & whimsy 🖤 #DickensClub host w/ spouse @SketchesByBoze 🖤 pen name: Sydney Wren 🖤 rep: Maura Phelan of Green Light Literary 🖤 "Brighten it, brighten it, brighten it!" ~Dickens to his fellow publisher 🎩🖤
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Having a Go at the St. John's College "Great Books" Curriculum...
...because everyone can be "library-educated"
open.substack.com
After nearly 3 years of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club, why not another insane autodidact project? Let's always read, always learn, no matter what our age or work 😍📚 🖤https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/having-a-go-at-the-st-johns-college
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Spent the day wandering through rain-soaked Seattle, and in a used bookstore found several volumes of medieval art.
October 31, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Spent the day wandering through rain-soaked Seattle, and in a used bookstore found several volumes of medieval art.
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1/3 Sisters Rachel and Margaret McMillan were pioneers in health & education for young poor children, promoting physical health to achieve intellectual health and recognising children from poor families did not have access to good food, fresh air, cleanliness & medical treatment
May 7, 2025 at 6:33 AM
1/3 Sisters Rachel and Margaret McMillan were pioneers in health & education for young poor children, promoting physical health to achieve intellectual health and recognising children from poor families did not have access to good food, fresh air, cleanliness & medical treatment
irises in the morning light
May 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
irises in the morning light
my reward for posting my essay on THE ODYSSEY for our Substack: reading one of my favorite authors, Peter Ackroyd! From a gift yesterday 🖤
May 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
my reward for posting my essay on THE ODYSSEY for our Substack: reading one of my favorite authors, Peter Ackroyd! From a gift yesterday 🖤
#ShakespeareSunday with @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social and @danarail.substack.com 🎭 a Renaissance Recorder concert, and for tonight: rewatching Branagh's Henry V 😍🎭
April 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#ShakespeareSunday with @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social and @danarail.substack.com 🎭 a Renaissance Recorder concert, and for tonight: rewatching Branagh's Henry V 😍🎭
Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!! 🥳🎉 And Happy #WorldBookDay!
April 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!! 🥳🎉 And Happy #WorldBookDay!
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I wrote an essay about the death of a best friend, Gilgamesh, the Venerable Bede, soul journeys in medieval ballads and the hope of a better world. My MIL called this “one of the best essays I’ve ever read on substack.” I’d be thrilled if you read it. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
The Shadow Canon 01: The Epic of Gilgamesh
What Do We Make of Death?
bibliollcollege.substack.com
April 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I wrote an essay about the death of a best friend, Gilgamesh, the Venerable Bede, soul journeys in medieval ballads and the hope of a better world. My MIL called this “one of the best essays I’ve ever read on substack.” I’d be thrilled if you read it. bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
Huge thanks to @jaredhenderson.bsky.social for his story with academia, and for including our DISPATCHES FROM BIBLIOLL COLLEGE over on Substack as an example of "taking your education into your own hands" ♡ open.substack.com/pub/jaredhen...
Taking your education into your own hands
In April of 2019, I passed my dissertation defense.
open.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Huge thanks to @jaredhenderson.bsky.social for his story with academia, and for including our DISPATCHES FROM BIBLIOLL COLLEGE over on Substack as an example of "taking your education into your own hands" ♡ open.substack.com/pub/jaredhen...
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I explained the entire plot of Beowulf to my three-year-old niece, and then she became Beowulf and I became Grendel and we battled till the sun sank into the west.
April 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I explained the entire plot of Beowulf to my three-year-old niece, and then she became Beowulf and I became Grendel and we battled till the sun sank into the west.
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Keeping Literature Weird, one book at a time...
@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social @littleseamstress.bsky.social 💙📚
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/introducin...
@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social @littleseamstress.bsky.social 💙📚
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/introducin...
Introducing the Shadow Canon
A New Series Exploring the Strangest Works of Literature
bibliollcollege.substack.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Keeping Literature Weird, one book at a time...
@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social @littleseamstress.bsky.social 💙📚
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/introducin...
@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social @littleseamstress.bsky.social 💙📚
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/introducin...
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London’s Crossing Sweepers: The Unsung Heroes of the Victorian Streets
In the muck-strewn maze of 18th and 19th-century London, where horse-drawn carriages ruled and street sanitation barely existed, one group of individuals stood ready with broom in hand: the crossing sweepers. Armed with nothing…
In the muck-strewn maze of 18th and 19th-century London, where horse-drawn carriages ruled and street sanitation barely existed, one group of individuals stood ready with broom in hand: the crossing sweepers. Armed with nothing…
London’s Crossing Sweepers: The Unsung Heroes of the Victorian Streets
In the muck-strewn maze of 18th and 19th-century London, where horse-drawn carriages ruled and street sanitation barely existed, one group of individuals stood ready with broom in hand: the crossing sweepers. Armed with nothing more than brushes, persistence, and a good dose of cheek, these resourceful workers offered pedestrians a way to navigate the city without the indignity of muddy boots or worse—an unfortunate encounter with a pile of horse manure.
londonopia.co.uk
March 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
London’s Crossing Sweepers: The Unsung Heroes of the Victorian Streets
In the muck-strewn maze of 18th and 19th-century London, where horse-drawn carriages ruled and street sanitation barely existed, one group of individuals stood ready with broom in hand: the crossing sweepers. Armed with nothing…
In the muck-strewn maze of 18th and 19th-century London, where horse-drawn carriages ruled and street sanitation barely existed, one group of individuals stood ready with broom in hand: the crossing sweepers. Armed with nothing…
reading Picnic with @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social 🖤 Simone Weil, but also Tom Shippey's Author of the Century & Tolkien's letters for #TolkienReadingDay 🌲💚
March 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
reading Picnic with @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social 🖤 Simone Weil, but also Tom Shippey's Author of the Century & Tolkien's letters for #TolkienReadingDay 🌲💚
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Enjoyed the linked essay/preface a lot, and was saddened by it, too.
Exciting news! I'm joining my wife's substack as a regular contributor, and today I'm sharing the preface to a book I'm writing on the joys of reading, where I lead you on a journey through my favorite books.
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/a-child-co...
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/a-child-co...
A Child Composed of Books
How Reading Became Endangered ... and How We Can Save It
bibliollcollege.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Enjoyed the linked essay/preface a lot, and was saddened by it, too.
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Exciting news! I'm joining my wife's substack as a regular contributor, and today I'm sharing the preface to a book I'm writing on the joys of reading, where I lead you on a journey through my favorite books.
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/a-child-co...
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/a-child-co...
A Child Composed of Books
How Reading Became Endangered ... and How We Can Save It
bibliollcollege.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Exciting news! I'm joining my wife's substack as a regular contributor, and today I'm sharing the preface to a book I'm writing on the joys of reading, where I lead you on a journey through my favorite books.
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/a-child-co...
bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/a-child-co...
beautiful post from @danarail.bsky.social about what we're trying to start over on substack 🖤 open.substack.com/pub/biblioll...
About Biblioll College
While we're getting our sea legs...
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
beautiful post from @danarail.bsky.social about what we're trying to start over on substack 🖤 open.substack.com/pub/biblioll...
home sick 🤒 but happy to sleepily spend the day with mighty Hektor & grey-eyed Athêna, figuring out my current note-taking method... 💛
March 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
home sick 🤒 but happy to sleepily spend the day with mighty Hektor & grey-eyed Athêna, figuring out my current note-taking method... 💛
on to Books 7-12 of THE ILIAD as part of my "St John's College Great Books Challenge" I started over on Substack last week...and our cat Poirot is helping with commentary 🤣
March 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
on to Books 7-12 of THE ILIAD as part of my "St John's College Great Books Challenge" I started over on Substack last week...and our cat Poirot is helping with commentary 🤣
I've always loved & been fascinated by Simone Weil, so it was a treat to find this at the library yesterday. 🖤📚 (I've been rereading THE ILIAD as part of the St John's College Great Books challenge I started over on Substack.)
March 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I've always loved & been fascinated by Simone Weil, so it was a treat to find this at the library yesterday. 🖤📚 (I've been rereading THE ILIAD as part of the St John's College Great Books challenge I started over on Substack.)
reading buddy 🖤🐈⬛🐾
March 15, 2025 at 3:15 AM
reading buddy 🖤🐈⬛🐾
good morning! little beauties from the garden 🌸
March 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM
good morning! little beauties from the garden 🌸
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“The ‘great books’ are for everyone; autodidactism is something to celebrate, no matter what one’s education level or social status; it would help heal our world if we made an effort to foster a generation of Library Kids and Library Adults.” — Rachel Murphy (my wife)
March 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
“The ‘great books’ are for everyone; autodidactism is something to celebrate, no matter what one’s education level or social status; it would help heal our world if we made an effort to foster a generation of Library Kids and Library Adults.” — Rachel Murphy (my wife)
After nearly 3 years of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club, why not another insane autodidact project? Let's always read, always learn, no matter what our age or work 😍📚 🖤https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/having-a-go-at-the-st-johns-college
Having a Go at the St. John's College "Great Books" Curriculum...
...because everyone can be "library-educated"
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
After nearly 3 years of The Dickens Chronological Reading Club, why not another insane autodidact project? Let's always read, always learn, no matter what our age or work 😍📚 🖤https://bibliollcollege.substack.com/p/having-a-go-at-the-st-johns-college
book mail day! 😍
March 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
book mail day! 😍