This is very cool! So much still to uncover about Katherine Philips’s connections and her networks - another hugely valuable piece of evidence for scholars to reckon with.

Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Today on the blog: a female owner of Charles I's popular Eikon Basilike, a book cherished by women readers, who used their ownership marks to express their political affiliations during and after the Civil Wars earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Great to see Wautier get the exhibit she deserves! #EarlyModern www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/a...

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org

CFP: Cavendish and Politics. www.unb.ca/fredericton/...

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Giving a boost to our Call for Papers for the 2026 Forum on early modern women and migrancy. Deadline October 15!

Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Excellent news. The law firm representing authors in the Anthropic/AI-theft class-action suit now has a website that is accepting non-US authors' contact info (as long as their books had a US publisher): www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Please do circulate!

Holding her little book (a bible I would assume) #HerBook #EarlyModern

Mary with an enormous book #EarlyModern #HerBook

Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost. Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format. #earlymodern

Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org

Although how a 17th century noblewoman shelved her books shouldn't have any bearing on how an individual chooses to arrange their personal library, it IS satisfying to see all the anti-shelving-by-colour snobs have to eat this

So much to unpack from Joe’s wonderful #HerBook post on Lady Bindloss’s purchase records. As he astutely notes, such records “help situate book ownership within a broader story of the networks and market mechanisms through which books moved from printer to seller to buyer”. WELL worth the read 👇👇

Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook

What we are reading in my English lit classes this semester. INTERLUDE: THE CONDITIONS OF YOUR LEARNING, Part 1 Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021), 1-21. 1/2

Nocturnal Scene: Couple Walking behind a Woman with a Lantern, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1655 (Rijksmuseum)

Womanhood: Always a political experience in more ways than one. "...it is possible that she wanted to read more closely about traits that would attract a good suitor and make her a virtuous wife, not just one whose connections and station in life appealed to her future husband." #HerBook

Today on the blog: a fascinating discussion by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on a book on marriage and choosing a wife owned by Elizabeth Cromwell, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Lovely and nice that the signature is still so clearly visible even though someone tried to cross it out #EarlyModern

Here's the CFP for our journal's forum with Alt Text

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

The bottom line: America’s workers want more oversight and accountability of AI technology—not less. Make a call now to tell your senators to remove this dangerous provision from the budget bill, and stop trying to weaken AI safety laws. act.aflcio.org/call_campaig...

@tarallyons.bsky.social knocks it out of the park with this essay about book collector Katherine Blount's daughter (or granddaughter) Catharina Freman, who was a bibliophile herself and had a collection that includes travel books, literature, histories, and religious works. 👏👏👏 #HerBook

Dorothy Amherst #HerBook

Il Mercurio Italico! A book I read and enjoyed for my own doctoral dissertation. Fascinating to know more about female ownership. This blog never disappoints!

You may remember our discovery of the library of early modern book owner Katherine Blount. Today, in a must-read post, @tarallyons.bsky.social uncovers a library of books belonging to her daughter! earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/j... #HerBook #EarlyModern

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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Saint Catherine is also often depicted with books to show her learning; here the book is on the ground #HerBook

Another beautiful annunciation in which Mary is holding a book! #HerBook

Provenance: Elizabeth Rose, Baroness of Kilravock "possibly the best documented 18thC Scottish woman reader", and acquaintance of Robert Burns #books #antiquarian #Bluestockings #18thcentury #provenance #manners #society #RobertBurns #herbook #bookauction bit.ly/4kWiWwT

This print is part of a 52-card deck depicting women from countries around the world. The series was made by Jean Desmarests de Saint-Sorlin on behalf of Cardinal Mazarin. The card game was created for the young Louis XIV. Here's Peru (Rijksmuseum)

Lovely open letter from October 1642, in which Lady Elizabeth Hatton, once the estranged wife of Edward Coke, tells Prince Rupert that Parliament should be the bedrock of the English state. Left for him when she fled her lands in Buckinghamshire as his army advanced.

More #HerBook from my trip to Italy: these lovely monochrome decorations by Aiuto del Pinturicchio feature several reading figures, some of whom are female. Dated 1489-91, in the Basso Della Rovere Chapel in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Popolo #HerBook #EarlyModern #Renaissance

Female ownership inscription in 1679 edition of George Herbert's, The Temple Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. #herbook #books #antiquarian #17thcentury #earlymodern #GeorgeHerbert #religion #temple #poem #synagogue #God #IsaacWalton #bookauction bit.ly/3ZSD2PY

Some top-notch detective work by Joe Black here in recovering the identities of these long-ago sisters. #HerBook

Today on the blog: a post by Joe Black on a copy of Robert Hill's popular Pathway to Piety in which multiple women have written their name and one used it to record some sad family history earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/r... #EarlyModern #HerBook

a #herbook inscription for the ages: Elizabeth Pride her Book giuen her by [the?] Lord Larrance / a ugly Lord a rogue a folle of a Lord 🔥🔥🔥 STC 22545 • @folger.edu

Mary was not only depicted with books in images of the annunciation. Here are a few bookish Madonnas who are not interrupted in their reading by an angel. First, Raphael's Madonna and Child with the Young St John the Baptist, painted c. 1505-06, at the Uffizi #HerBook #EarlyModern

While looking up the Württemberg hymnbook, I came across this colourful full-page ownership inscription by Elisabeth Wölfle in the Stadtmuseum Ebersbach #herbook #bookhistory #womenshistory

The blog's first participant contribution is online! csherbook.hypotheses.org/314 Read about the copy of the Württemberg hymnbook in which @sparrersway.bsky.social found the beautiful pressed edelweiss flower I posted the other day. #herbook #bookhistory

Following up on yesterday's thread, here are some more annunciations featuring Mary with a book. First up: one by Matthias Stomer, painted 1635-40, at the Uffizi #HerBook #EarlyModern

In a trip to Italy I saw many images of women with books and thought it'd be nice to share some over the next few days. Lots of annunciation images feature Mary with a book. This fresco is by Pietro di Miniato, at the Church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, c. 1390-1420? #HerBook #Renaissance