White amaryllis !

Heliotrope: best scent in the garden.

#earlymodern does anyone have access to the mysteriously almost invisible William Halstead’s Shakespeare as Spoken vol 4 . I’m interested in 19 th century cuts to All’s Well but can’t ask interlibrary loans for it unless I have page references

Little Corellas

Excellent medieval/early modern round table yesterday on beds during which we learnt how sinful it is for dogs to be on one’s bed. I guess I am going to Hell unless cat cancels out dog.

Honoured and delighted to be giving this year’s Foxcroft lecture @statelibraryvic.bsky.social - livestream also available www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/202...

Let us all bow down before Elaine Hobby who persuaded CUP to undertake this massive compete Behn project. I’m not sure that just being on the editorial board means I deserve this handsome volume but I am so delighted to have it ; two down only six to go.

1/2 'I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who married Helen as a coward and leaves her as a profligate: when she is dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman whom he has wronged,

Illawarra flame tree

Partner: so when people look back on causes for the decline of English studies they will say ‘ there was someone spending their time writing about beds and blanks’.

Cherries for Valentine’s Day my partner’s favourite thing

My partner, also a labourer in the fields of the mind, being assisted by the bad dog.

Just stop working it’s 42

#earlymodern ok drama people apart from M for M and Alls Well which plays have bed tricks. Just beds eg Chaste Maid don’t count for my purposes.

#earlymodern I was lucky enough to be taught by Harold love and one of his golden rules was always go back to the original source so it did take all day yesterday to find the bit of Malone quoted by Schoenbaum and it was worth it not because Schoenbaum misquoted I hasten to say.

I think I only have one more handbook/companion essay left in me. Have always been grateful to have been taken by surprise by the inimitable Andrew Hadfield who asked me to write about early modern essays when everyone else was asking me to write about early modern fiction

Dog in exile

Yuuki has stolen the dog’s bed

#earlymodern Does anyone know the price of Jo Roberts’ edition of Mary Wroth’s poems when it was first published in 1983?

42 degrees today

New year resolution : be more like this.

It’s a pesto time of year here

Ladies Diary started by tipper in 1704 and lasted until 1841

State library Victoria first edition of this Djuna Barnes treasure of course without librarians it’ll be a lot harder to find, interpret, encounter such treasures

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Tipper started The Ladies Diary in 1704 but EEBO, 18th C online, and so far BL, Bod., Folger, Huntington only have 1706 not 1704 or 1705. Help. (ESTC starts with 1706 but in 21706 he clearly says this is No. 3). Does anyone know howe to access 1704, or 1705?

Does anyone out there visit the Clark library and if so would you be prepared to take a single photo for me ( of an almanac title page) ? #earlymodern

Here’s a taster for my anzamems paper: 9.30 Thursday December 4

One for fans of the unfortunate Florinda.

Come to the @anzamems.bsky.social conference in Melbourne (!) in December I will be speaking about zodiac ‘man’ in early modern almanacs and helping celebrate the palgrave encyclopaedia of early modern women’s writing with the esteemed editors Rosalind smith and Patricia Pender. @earymodern

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'.

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

Hello spring.

Late winter wax flower in full bloom

#earlymodern writing about the amazing Sarah jinner

Sprung

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...

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