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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 10/08/2026

Now on the blog, curator @heatherwolfe.bsky.social shares heavily annotated books in the Folger collection from early modern readers who knew the power of underlining words, adding notes in the margin, and even putting the occasional doodle in what they were reading. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

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Marginalia Maxxing, Early Modern Style | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Delighted to announce that the Handbook is coming out in paperback!

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Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille @cgraffeuille.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Vient de paraître: le n° 48 d’Études Épistémè: "The Politics and Poetics of Trees in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England", sous la direction de Line Cottegnies, Anne-Valérie Dulac et Alexis Tadié. Également une étude de Roger Chartier et deux varia: journals.openedition.org/episteme/21816

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48 | 2025 The Politics and Poetics of Trees in Seventeenth- and Ei...

Revue consacrée aux études littéraires et historiques portant sur l'Europe du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, principalement sur l'Angleterre et la France

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Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

📣 Still time to get your abstract in for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', a two-day conference to be held at Oxford on 18/19 June 2026. Generously supported by Corpus Christi, @oxfordcems.bsky.social, and @srsrensoc.bsky.social. clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

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Joh Peccadille @peccadille.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

C'est demain à 16h30 à l'Université de Rouen ! Il y a un lien zoom pour ceux qui voudraient suivre à distance !

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

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The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia

The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia.

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SEAA 17-18 @seaa1718.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Le dernier numéro (82) de la #revuescientifique XVII–XVIII est en ligne ! ✨ 🔗 Disponible sur journals.openedition.org/1718/14350 📚 Accès PDF/Epub via les bibliothèques (Freemium) ✍️ La rubrique Varia est ouverte à vos propositions jusqu’au 1er mai ! #XVIIe #XVIIIe #histoire #littérature #recherche

Peter Lely, Portrait of a Lady, 1650, huile sur toile, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Ekaterinbourg, Wikimedia Commons

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Exciting news - a new portrait of Lucy Hutchinson has surfaced.

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Amy Lidster @amylidster.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

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Call for Papers

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Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille @cgraffeuille.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

journals.openedition.org/episteme/20748 Vient de paraître dans le n° 46 d'Etudes Epistémè "Formes baroques de l’ineffabilité au théâtre", sous la direction de Christine Sukic et de Séverine Reyrolle. "Molière hors de lui-même", sous la direction d'Hubert Aupetit et de Tony Gheeraert

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47 | 2025 Formes baroques de l’ineffabilité au théâtre

Revue consacrée aux études littéraires et historiques portant sur l'Europe du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, principalement sur l'Angleterre et la France

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June

Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges
University of Exeter, Knightley Building, 2-4 June
MONDAY 2nd JUNE
From 9.00 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
9.25 WELCOME – CultPhil Team
9.30-11 ACADEMIES & NETWORKS
Chair: Felicity Henderson (Exeter)
Annalisa Nicholson (KCL), Mediating Knowledge Across Borders: Hortense Mancini, the Mazarin Salon, and the Royal Society 
Carlotta Moro (Exeter), Women, Natural Philosophy, and the Italian Academies in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparative Study of the Ricovrati and the Arcadia 
Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht), Latin: Language of Knowledge? A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Latinity across the Early Modern Low Countries and France 
Coffee break
11.15-12.45 COMMUNITIES & READERS
Chair: Carlotta Moro (Exeter)
Meredith Ray (Delaware), Gender, Natural Philosophy, and the Oral Landscape in Early Modern Italy
Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck), Publishing an Astronomical Book in Seventeenth-Century Silesia: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia between Self-Translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power 
Kate Allan (Anglia Ruskin), “One rich usefull masse”: Katherine Philips and her Contemporary Scientific Readers
Lunch
1.45-3.45 MEDICINE & BODIES
Chair: Meredith Ray (Delaware)
Giada Merighi (Pisa),  «Io lo vorei curare con questa dicozione» («I would like to treat you with this decoction»). ‘Medical’ advice in family letters from a female hand. The example of Claudia Grumelli Salis 
Úna Faller (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon), “...to make a woemans milk come & increase, take the Green Leaves of fennell”: Manuscript recipe books’ epistemologies and herbal remedies for managing women’s health concerns, 1600-1697 
Madeleine Sheahan (Yale), Mastering Time: Preservation, Longevity, and Timelessness 
Ilaria Ferrara (Ferrara), From prejudices about women to gender stereotypes: new forms of female agency starting from Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's "Rigorous Investigation"

4-5.00 CAVENDISH ROUNDTABLE: Esther Kearney (Nottingham), Sophie White (York), Evan Thomas (Otterbein), Chair: Sarah Hutton (York)

TUESDAY 3rd JUNE
9.00-10.30 GENRES
Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin), '"I am all a storm": Chaos and Disordered Matter in the Writings of Jane Cavendish and Frances Feilding
Sajed Chowdhury (Utrecht), Psychology, Alchemy and the Woman Philosopher-Poet: Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) 
Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), ‘So short do humours last’: Elizabeth Cary on Anger Management in The Tragedy of Mariam 
Coffee
10.45-12.45 ECOFEMINISM & NONHUMAN ANIMALS 
Eric Jorink (Leiden & Huygens Insitute, Amsterdam), Embroidery, Needles and Microscopes. Seventeenth-century Women and the Representation of Insects 
Manuel Fasko (Basel), Anne Conway on the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals (NHA) 
Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Verse: Ecofeminist Poetry in Early Modern England 
Catherine Evans (Exeter), “She rolls her unctuous embryo east and west”: Hester Pulter’s “creaturely poetics” and the Limits of the Maternal Body 
Lunch
1.40-2.40 ROUNDTABLE 2: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY & POETICS
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL); Meredith Ray (Delaware); Helena Taylor (Exeter), Chair: Cassie Gorman (ARU)
Comfort Break
2.45-4.15 WOMEN AND DESCARTES 
Sarah Hutton (York), Women and Cartesian natural philosophy. From Margaret Cavendish to Émilie du Châtelet 
Michaela Manson (Monash), The Natural Philosophy of Mary Astell 
Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), Mary Astell Reads Descartes 
Tea
4.30-6.00 MANUSCRIPTS & EPISTEMOLOGIES
Emma Bartel (Université Paris Cité), Looking for Women’s Engagement with Natural Philosophy in Marginal Manuscript Genres 
Jil Muller (Paderborn), Oliva Sabuco on Natural Philosophy 
Pedro Pricladnitzky (Paderborn), The Manuscript of Institutions de Physique: Émilie du Châtelet’s Development of Methodological Eclecticism 
CONFERENCE DINNER 7pm Côte Brasserie

WED 4th JUNE

9.30-11 METHODS

Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden)

Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science

Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy 

Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age 

Coffee

11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION 

Chair: Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen)

Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique  

Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy 

Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer

CLOSE AND LUNCH

This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].

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Lara Dodds @laradodds.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A flyer with discount code AAFLYG6 for Early Modern Women's Wrtiing and the Future of Literary History by Michelle M. Dowd and Lara Dodds

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Christine Sukic @christinesukic.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Happy 50th birthday!

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English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New TWTUD klaxon! Jackie Eales explores the oft-ignored role of women in the civil wars - from radical religious groups like the Quakers offering women equality of worship and preaching to women directly petitioning Parliament www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/wome...

A pamphlet from the British Civil Wars regarding a petition presented by women, alongside woodcut images of two women from the period.

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Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille @cgraffeuille.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

très bon souvenir de ce lieu aussi! mais il y a 30 ans!

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

The vehemently republican MS was held close by the family and not published till 1806. Julius Hutchinson issued special large-paper copies and boosted subscriptions; it became a best-seller.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Julius Hutchinson did cut many passages he thought readers would dislike and only in 1973 did James Sutherland issue an edition from the original MS. N. H. Keeble followed with a modernized edition. The new edition will for the first time include in full an earlier version written during the war.

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Cambridge Early Modernists @emodcam.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm, Graham Storey Room at Trinity Hall: Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (University of Rouen Normandy) - Memoir-writing, historiography and the English Revolution: the case of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Short Memorials

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Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne @bis-sorbonne.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

[Suspension du PEB] En raison d'une baisse de plus de 40% de son budget 2025, la BIS est contrainte de réduire ses activités et services, notamment le service du Prêt entre bibliothèques, suspendu pour une durée indéterminée à partir du lundi 17 février. Les demandes déjà en cours seront traitées.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

These are the editions of Lucretius, by Denys Lambin and Daniel Pareus, which Lucy Hutchinson would have consulted 'in a roome where my children practizd the severall quallities they were taught, with their Tutors, & I numbred the sillables of my translation by the threds of the canvas I wrought in'

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Introducing Lucy Hutchinson’s writings in a few posts. In the 1650s, translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, a bold atheist epic. How did a Puritan engage with materialist vision of history? Texts available in Oxford Works vol. 1, with Latin text and full commentary; text only ed. Hugh de Quehen.

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El Alaoui Y. @elalaweb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Le livre devrait être publié en anglais / espagnol, en 2025, chez Brill (Leiden/Boston), dans la collection Heterodoxia Ibérica dirigée par Jorge Ledo, sous le titre Preface to the conversion of Moors or The Moorish Catechism attributed to Juan de Almarza, s.j. (1619-1669).

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Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu... Please repost!

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English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith

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Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

For one remarkable woman in the #17thC, the Tower wasn’t just a fortress—it was home, hospital, laboratory, and sanctuary. My novel brings to life the incredible story of Lady Lucy Apsley, who raised a family within these forbidding walls. #Skystorians www.elizabethjstjohn.com/updates/lady...

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Lady Apsley's Medicinal Garden in the Tower of London | A Healer in the Heart of Power - Elizabeth St.John

My novel The Lady of the Tower brings to life the incredible story of Lady Lucy Apsley, who lived, worked, and raised a family within these forbidding walls for thirteen years.

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Suzanne McDonald @smcdonald.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Thrilled that a friend has had his first article published! It's on Sir Thomas Fairfax, it's outstanding, and it's open access. Congratulations, Ned! And enjoy, everyone! #EarlyModern #17thC #skystorians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sir Thomas Fairfax and the politics of pain

Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671) was one of the most influential figures of the British Civil Wars. His life, however, was starkly coloured by physical suffering which informed his political and mili...

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