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Dr. Alexandra E. LaGrand @aelagrand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

PLAM is definitely my heart and soul, so I yearn for the little pockets of time to be able to work on it. Please do keep in touch and let me know if I can be of any help!

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Dr. Alexandra E. LaGrand @aelagrand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thank you so much! This is so special to hear. I’m so glad you have found it useful and interesting. It has very much been a labor of love on my end, and though I haven’t added as much lately (teaching a 4/4 will do it to you!), I remain eager for the breaks where I can add more.

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@pointslikeaman.bsky.social (@aelagrand.bsky.social ) have been using the database recently, as I prep for teaching, just to broaden our sense of these roles. wanted to say thank you! it's wild seeing the 18th and 19th century history of cross-gender casting!

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

These performances appear to be German-language productions of Shakespeare's plays, but what is especially interesting is these records help show the continued, global reach of breeches roles!

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

We couldn't wait until tomorrow to add this next batch of performances, because these mark our first in Germany! ✨ We just added 6 records for performances of Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet, performed between 1901-1902 at the Königliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin. 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

We were particularly excited to add 13 records from an all-girl production of As You Like It at the Ogontz School for Girls in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania that took place on April 28, 1890! 🎩✨

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Dr. Alexandra E. LaGrand @aelagrand.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Now that it's summer, I can get back to the fun work 🤗

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Dr. Alexandra E. LaGrand @aelagrand.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Had such a wonderful time sharing @pointslikeaman.bsky.social as part of this year’s SAA Digital Exhibits! ✨ It was so wonderful to meet everyone and share my project so widely, and to hear from folks who already are using it! Many thanks to SAA for hosting PLAM this year! 🎩 #Shax2026

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Good morning from Denver! 🏙️🏔️ Be sure to stop by our table during the Digital Exhibits from 10:00AM-12:00PM to learn more about our project! We will even have stickers! ✨ #Shax2026

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Dr. Jess Hamlet (she/her) @jesshamlet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Can confirm that @pointslikeaman.bsky.social (and newly-minted Dr. @aelagrand.bsky.social, who created it) is excellent!!

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Dr. Alexandra E. LaGrand @aelagrand.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I am so excited to be alongside these incredible scholars and chairing the roundtable on performance. And, who knows, you just might hear me talk about Ellen Terry and her stage debut as Mamillius in Charles Kean’s 1856 production of Winter’s Tale! 🐻

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Dr. Alexandra E. LaGrand @aelagrand.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Be sure to join us for the @nvshakespeare.bsky.social conference on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Winter’s Tale in February! ✨

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year, everyone! 🥂 For those heading to #shax2026 in April, be sure to check out the Digital Exhibits on Saturday, April 4! We’ll be there and would love to see you there too! ✨🎩 (And yes, we’ll have stickers!)

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Thank you so much to the SSEMWG, and many congratulations to the winner, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's writing, and to our fellow Honorable Mention, The Four Books by Alice Thornton! ✨ Read about the other projects at the link below! ⤵️ www.ssemwg.org/2025

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2025 — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We have some very exciting news to share! ✨ We just learned that our database has been awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Digital Scholarship, New Media, and Art Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender! 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This batch also helped us grow our number of records for performances in Philadelphia, while also helping us expand into St. Louis. You can see this growth on our interactive map of historic theatres. ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

In this performance, Ellen and Kate Bateman played Richard and Richmond, respectively, while Julia Jones played Prince Edward and Miss Schoolcraft played the Duke of York. The Bateman sisters were famous for playing these roles as young girls, with prints like these capturing their performances.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This batch included our first performances in St. Louis, Missouri, with one production even having four performances of genderfluidity at once! On October 15, 1850, the St. Louis Theatre had a production of Richard III, with Richard, Richmond, and the two princes all being played by girls or women.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Today, 93 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King John, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night in Philadelphia and St. Louis from 1822-1878 to bring the record total to 8,265. ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

In this batch of records were our first breeches performances in Othello. In February 1863, an actress by the name of Miss Miller played a page in Othello at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. While other tragedies have often seen breeches performances, Othello almost never has.

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Today, 88 records were added for performances of Coriolanus, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Richard III, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1863-1865 to bring the record total to 8,172. ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Among these performances was our first record for a performance in Love's Labor's Lost! ✨ On January 6, 1862, Mrs. Charles Henri played Moth (also known as Mote) in Love's Labor's Lost at the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia. 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Today, 34 records were added for performances of As You Like It, Henry IV Part I, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, and The Taming of the Shrew in Philadelphia from 1854-1864 to bring the record total to 8,084! ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

From this trip, she has been able to gather 237 records for performances in Philadelphia, and another 31 records for performances in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, DC! ✨ She is now in the process of cleaning up these records and getting them ready to add to our database site! 🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

This summer, @aelagrand.bsky.social visited the Library Company of Philadelphia and UPenn's Kislak Center to consult playbills and collect records of women's breeches performances in Philadelphia! ✨🎩

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Check it out! Our project director, @aelagrand.bsky.social won the @honeyandwaxbks.bsky.social Book Collecting Prize for her collection of materials related to Shakespearean breeches actresses! ✨🎩 Points Like A Man even gets a shout-out!

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Call for Applications: SHARP News Bibliographers As @bibliowingate.bsky.social's term comes to an end, we're looking to shake things up & establish a bibliography team of 2+ people. Applications due October 1 2025. The full call for applications and how to apply: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers – SHARP NEWS

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography – SHARP NEWS

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Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 @restorationjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

📢 Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 is looking for an Associate Editor to join our editorial team. 📢 Deadline is Sept. 5 and more info is linked below. Academic friends please share widely. DM @drerinnerung.bsky.social with questions. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Associate Editor Opening at Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700

Associate Editor Opening at Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1660-1700 Restoration is looking for an Associate Editor to join Editors Dr. Laura Rosenthal and Dr. Erin Keating and Book ...

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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Opening at Penn for a Special Collections Accessions Librarian, responsible for acquiring and accessioning all special collections materials for the Kislak Center. The salary range for this position is $66,000 - $89,039. Come work with meeeee! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

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Special Collections Accessions Librarian

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

We're looking for an Associate Professor/Professor who can contribute to research and teaching at Cambridge Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a permanent role with a closing date of 21 September. Apply now: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Two University of Cambridge students are walking on the streets of central Cambridge. Copyright: University of Cambridge (June 2024)

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Taking place TODAY: BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms, 25th July 2025, 3pm-6.15 BST. Members should have received an email containing Zoom links to attend! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6045

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Programme: BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms – BARS Blog

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The Arden Shakespeare @ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Save on plays📚 For 1 week only, until Sun 27th July, enjoy up to 30% off the whole of The Arden Shakespeare Third Series! Browse the Third Series: bit.ly/4o03Bxf Browse all sale highlights: bit.ly/40vQoCl

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Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

How’s this for a theatre poster? 1849, Theatre Royal, #Dundee. A bit of a curiosity as it looks like a budding poster designer has sketched out ideas on the back. Always welcome for some thoughts on #Alexander and #Woodward! #History #Theatre #Pantomime #Turpin #TomKing #Punch

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Points Like A Man @pointslikeaman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

After a bit of a break, we are back to bring you some more records! ✨ Today, 17 records were added for performances of Romeo and Juliet in Dublin, Leeds, Liverpool, London, and Torquay from 1809-1830 to bring the record total to 8,050. 🎩

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Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My first article, "Becoming Jane on stage: queerness in early twentieth-century Austen bioplays," has been published and it is open access 🥳🥳 Huge thanks to the editors at Adaptation Journal and peer reviewers who have been a pleasure to work with doi.org/10.1093/adap...

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Becoming Jane on stage: queerness in early twentieth-century Austen bioplays

Abstract. Bioadaptation has become a recent trend in Austen media, from Becoming Jane (2007) and Miss Austen Regrets (2008) to the BBC series Miss Austen (

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Bridger Bartlett @allo-nothing.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Posting to announce: 1. My visa for my postdoc in Swansea has officially been approved! 2. Alice Equestri’s Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture, to which I contributed a chapter, is out now! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping...

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Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Culture

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The open access version of Selling Sexual Knowledge is out (hardcopies coming shortly)! Reposting this little thread from December where I take a break from chowing down on holiday treats to talk a little about what it's actually about and why I wrote it.

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Cambridge Core - History of Medicine - Selling Sexual Knowledge

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏 @ccp-org.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @jimccasey1.bsky.social

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Erik Kwakkel @erikkwakkel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Just came across this web resource: 76 digitized handwriting manuals 1600-1800 - mostly with models for handwriting exercises (bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/search/N-503...). A bored child learning to write doodled in one of them (source: bibliotheques-specialisees.paris.fr/ark:/73873/p...).

Flyleaf of writing manual shows doodles of child.

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Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I’m absolutely delighted to receive my contributor copy of ‘Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain’. Thank you to the editors, Markman Ellis and Jack Orchard, and congratulations to all contributors. I can’t wait to read all the other chapters!

A hardback book is held up against a green landscape.

The first page of a chapter and its heading.

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