#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

#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.

Japanese quince always fools you into thinking it’s spring

Municipal planting Fitzroy gardens

Our freshly painted house in the winter sunshine

Galahs , my favourite parrot

Dusting…

Let them lie. Especially this one.

Brisbane

Wonderful talk by Clare Hansen at anzsa

Great program for the ANZSA conference in Brisbane next week. I usually make a point of not giving papers on Shakespeare at Shakespeare conferences but I will be talking about MND…but really about almanacs of course .

Just reading in a Day 1657 almanac that it’s a really bad idea to smell basil too much because it will give you a headache and even possibly breed scorpions inside your brain.

So if you spend too long on EEBO looking at almanacs you get asked if you are a robot. All of the feels, as we say in the classics. #earlymodern

Winter

Snowflakes … resilient , tough , it’s snowdrops that are fragile.

If I show a little clip of The Beatles doing Pyramus and Thisbe as part of my conference paper, will everyone yawn and think we’ve seen this a thousand times?

Just seen the program for what will be a fabulous ANZSA conference in Brisbane . Very excited to be taking part. Talking about MND and… you’ve guessed it, almanacs. #earlymodern

Realised my dream of going to kabuki … fabulous.

Kyosumi garden

Autumn mt macedon

Great zodiac ‘man’ in a Wing 1660 almanac in the Emmerson Collection.

I don’t usually post about politics but Australia rejects trump values and re elects a labour government and I am feeling optimistic again though so sorry for the destruction of everything good in the US

Writing about zodiac ‘man’ and arguing that most of the time ‘man’ is a very misleading descriptor.

Hey shakespeareans I am keen to have some firm performance dates for MND but not having much luck is it just a series of approximations? 1594/5 ? Must have been a court performance for Elizabeth? Was there one in 1604? I am pursuing moonshine…

So it is autumn here in Oz I hope they haven’t tortured the hyacinths to get them to bloom now

But then there’s always heliotrope

Strike three fellowship-wise. I have had my fair share but it does knock one’s confidence down a bit even at my advanced age.

CFP Reminder: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

Very proud to be included in this wonderful tribute issue for the fabulous Mary Ellen Lamb

Bronson Alcott’s school of philosophy

Meanwhile at the JFK museum…

Reading Elizabeth bishop in the Provincetown library

House of the 7 gables

Fabulous SRS keynote by the wonderful Nandini Das

If you are at rsa or saa remember time bound panel, 4.30 today Marriott Hyannis room; ahem, don’t be late!

Boston: beautiful first day,

Hmm two out of three fellowships rejected maybe third one lucky. Not complaining I have had my successes in the past but these ‘retired’ days no fellowship = no archive access. #earlymodern

Just a last reminder if you are at RSA or SAA come to the ‘Time Bound’ session on Friday 4.30-6.00 to hear me talking about almanacs alongside three fascinating papers on clocks, scribes, Janus, and much more, in a truly interdisciplinary session.

The preface for Expanding the Canon was written by Dennis Britton; Comic Epistemologies is guest edited by @laurakolb.bsky.social and Jessica Rosenberg; and our Mary Wroth issue is guested edited by @pjsalzman.bsky.social and Rosalind Smith.

Proofs!

So explain exactly how cold it will be in Boston, bearing in mind it will be 33C for the next week in Melbourne; and also does America still go on for very cold outside but tropical wear a singlet inside ?