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Paul salzman

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Early modern nerd, women writers, book history, editing , also trivial personal posts on gardens, food etc

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 3d

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 7d

Really what more could you ask for? This is the only extant copy (thanks again Bodleian). In case you are wondering the same formula will grow you a new set of teeth and also 'take out the furrowed wrinkles as smooth as a girl of sixteen'.

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 14d

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 28d

I don’t, we bought it at a small orchid nursery on the Mornington peninsula

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 28d

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Sep 4

There’s my online wroth poetry edition just pick one sonnet : wroth.latrobe.edu.au

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Sep 2

I see your ‘of course’ and raise you my ‘perhaps’.

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hello spring.

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 29

O no !

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 26

Late winter wax flower in full bloom

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 22

Very slowly poached preferably overnight cut up quinces sugar syrup (equal sugar and water) to cover overnight in a very low oven hardly any faff but I think better than quince paste and more versatile

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 18

#earlymodern writing about the amazing Sarah jinner

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 14

Sprung

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 11

Most of the best ones of course are in Australia and New Zealand so not that hard, really. (Joke…)

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 11

And here’s a link to my blog piece on tracking down Jinner almanacs on the early modern marginalia research network earlymodernmarginaliaresearchnetwork.com/2024/02/08/d...

Desperately Seeking Sarah: My Vain Quest for Marginalia

by Paul Salzman I am at the early stages of a large project on almanacs. I’m investigating the readership and use through time of a large sample of what was the most popular printed item in the sev…

earlymodernmarginaliaresearchnetwork.com

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 10

Had a great time at the early modern women and marginalia seminar in Canberra now it’s back to Sarah Jinner I’m about half way through writing my little book on early modern women and almanacs

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ha ha snap,

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 6

#earlymodern about to head to Canberra tomorrow for the marginalia and the early modern woman writer seminar organised by an amazing scholar and dear friend, Ros Smith.

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 6

Japanese quince always fools you into thinking it’s spring

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 3

Municipal planting Fitzroy gardens

Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Aug 1

Our freshly painted house in the winter sunshine

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Jul 29

I don’t think that this is what you mean but when I was working on halliwell’s scrapbooks I was always conscious that his scraps equated to gaps/holes somewhere else. Or indeed even in the same place which I think is the case at the Folger.

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Jul 19

Galahs , my favourite parrot

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · Jul 13

Dusting…