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/...

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

i will never let men off the hook for making misogynist art because david lynch, an old cornpone white guy from montana, was able to make one of the only television shows that took violence against women seriously and, in fact, framed child sexual abuse as a legitimately apocalpytic evil

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...

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Had the most magical week pre-holidays at the #NewberryLibrary: huge thanks to @noraepstein.bsky.social @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social and all the staff for such a warm welcome! Check out that double volvelle 👀 (Newberry Wing ZP 646 .R57 & Case NE 1070 .S33 1648)

Trying to get any work done the Friday before Christmas (Het Wonder Leven van de H. Rosa de S. Maria van Lima, 1678, USTC 1537320)

Women and the booktrade. Elisabeth van Biesen de Haes is found in this impressum under her own name as 'Printer [drukster] of the noble court of Guelders' #bookhistory

Impressed by Plantin offers the prints of 14,000 woodblocks, freely available for creative reuse. museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...

Susanna Verbruggen († 1752) was een geestelijke maagd (#klopje of #kwezel) en lid van het Lucas gilde in Antwerpen vanaf 1710 💃 Ze drukte #devotieprenten en kocht in 1727 zo’n 400 pond koperplaten, 2000 à 3000 stuks 💫 Daarbij gravures van Theodoor Galle, die ze voorzag van haar naam ✍️ #nuntastic

Welcome new followers! Amidst all the excitement of a new platform may I also direct your enthusiasm towards this beautiful 150,000-word behemoth, Gender and the Book Trades, jam-packed with groundbreaking research from 27 brilliant scholars! Out January 15! brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Delighted to see our SI of Renaissance Studies out in the world now!

#CallForPapers: The Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (5-7 November 2025, Antwerp). #Bookhistory #HerBook #WomensHistory #Herstory museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome...

Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook* Send your research proposals and creative responses to Helen Smith and me by 13th Jan www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...

Curious what anyone else thinks of this: these are editions of the same text by the same firm in the same year, one with an imprint ascribing it to the widow and heirs of Jan Cnobbaert, one just to the widow. Why might this be? Inheritance drama? (USTC 1835465 & 1536702)

#HerBook This 15th-century Latin-Dutch-French glossary contains #provenance marks made by women: Mariken Buyens and Lisken Stevens wrote their names on the flyleaves of the manuscript! #bookhistory #rarebooks

A rare and remarkable occurrence of two female printer-publishers not only working together but using their given names: Yolande Bonhomme's imprint and Charlotte Guillard's colophon in an edition of Augustine published in Paris in 1541 (USTC 204524)! hdl.handle.net/10481/10736

You know, I usually appreciate someone coming out of the gate swinging with an article opener, but I'm not so sure about this one...

Today marks the beginning of my British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship studying female collaboration in the early modern book trade- unbelievably excited to get started! I'm going to be better about posting highlights here, watch this space 👀 (USTC 6110476)

Now that it's public, I’m absurdly excited to say that I’ve been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh for a transnational project on collaborations between women at all levels of the early modern book trade! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/the-bri...

As someone who does (and teaches) bibliography, I care about whose labour is credited in the process of making and describing a book. We can use queer approaches to do this more accurately and inclusively, and you can read my piece in PBSA about it now! t.co/hA3oYKtWDB

When @sarahpyke.bsky.social and I decided to hold Queer Bibliography, one of our stated aims was to produce citable work. We are therefore delighted that this special journal number is now available online, and print copies will be making their way to BSA members. 1/

Calling all #bookhistory enthusiasts: I'm intrigued by this 18c imprint that identifies the 'De Goesin sisters' as printers/publishers. In my experience sisters who worked in the family biz usually used the conveniently genderless 'heirs of' in imprints: anyone seen this before?

the cathedral newsletter rarely disppoints - this week: why it's called foolscap ... 📜 #EarlyModern #History

#Earlymodern books were more than just reading material. Yesterday I visited the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven again where Lieve Watteeuw showed me this unique hollowed out book printed in the Officina Plantiniana in 1589 with relics inside! I'm in awe 🤩

Is this the best false imprint ever!? 'On the teaching of women', printed in *Gynaecocratopoli* (USTC 2022138) digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/...

My article, “What could a trans book history look like?”, is still available open access: please download, I‘ve been promised a special fun surprise when it hits 1000! digitalcommons.wayne.edu/criticism/vo...

Like my folk hero St Wilgefortis, patron of unhappy relationships, I've made it to greener (bluer?) pastures! Hello again, I've missed so many of you who jumped ship early!