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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paperback #pubday for Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination! www.uwp.co.uk/book/romanti...

Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Interested in witchcraft trials? I've just finished revising my @omeka.org site containing primary documents related to Mary Parsons of #Northampton, Massachusetts, who was accused of #witchcraft in 1674. Relaunch features new documents & updated transcripts. Enjoy! umlmaryparsonsarchive.omeka.net

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Mary Parsons Witchcraft Trial Archive

Information about Mary (Bliss) Parsons of Northampton, Massachusetts, who was accused of witchcraft

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What was #Lowell like in 1891? Apparently we had 59 clergymen, 70 lawyers, & 9 undertakers. Hungry? There were 33 bakeries & 27 restaurants! Bored? How about 11 bands of music, 2 banjo/violin makers, & 4 dancing academies. Thanks & credit to Center for Lowell History: libguides.uml.edu/archives

a clip titled "Miscellaneous Statistics" with a long list of the number of various things in the city of Lowell in 1891, excerpted in the post. Source is the 1891 Manufactures of Lowell (see next picture).

Original at Center for Lowell History: https://libguides.uml.edu/archives
With thanks to the fantastic archivists there!

Scan of the bright yellow cover of a book:
Vox Populi Series
Annual Statistics
of
Manufactures in Lowell
and
Neighboring Towns
January, 1891
Price 5 c, by mail 6 c

Original at Center for Lowell History: https://libguides.uml.edu/archives
With thanks to the fantastic archivists there!

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not really happy that stores are already pushing Halloween in August, but we decided to take advantage of the opportunity at this dog-friendly big box store to start working on getting our puppy prepared for Spooky Season decorations. Percy seems OK with (even interested in?) this giant skeleton.

A white dog with black ears and spots looks up at a very large skeleton with glowing eyes that is holding a bowl

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

CFP 📢📢📢 *New Approaches to Teaching the Gothic*, co-edited by myself & @factorygothic.bsky.social Critical practice; pedaogical reflections; case studies; particularly in a relation to these times/spaces of crisis. VERY broad cfp. Qus welcome 👇👇👇 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Delighted to find reciprocard.com for more Libby access. For #Massachusetts folks: anyone who lives in or is a student anywhere in Massachusetts can get a Boston Public Library @bpl.boston.gov e-card, which gives access to some great historic newspaper databases, too! www.bpl.org/your-library...

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We want hear about your critical practice, your pedaogical reflections, your case studies, your collabs, particularly in a relation to these times/spaces of crisis. You can be a "traditional" HE/FE lecturer, work in a prison, work in community centres, outreach, online, in-person - a very broad cfp!

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Do you teach courses or modules on the Gothic? @jendeavour.bsky.social and I would love to hear from you for an edited collection we're developing: New Approaches to #Teaching the #Gothic! Full info here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/... Message or email us with queries or proposals!

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Simpsons: Homer and Bart Say 'Join Us'

Alt: A Simpsons gif in which Bart and Homer are sitting on a couch and Homer is patting the seat beside him saying 'Join Us'

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Are you in New England and in need of a delightful dog companion? Check out Gigi, currently in Kentucky but ready to move north. She's currently with @kassiejo.bsky.social who can give you more details. Get this pup! www.petfinder.com/dog/gigi-had...

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Spent yesterday enjoying the diary that mill girl Susan Moore Wetherbee kept from 1836 to 1841. She notes that her family includes father, mother, 8 children, grandmother and "two boarders" (though she names three). The diary is in the collection of #Lowell National Historical Park. A treasure!

photo of the marbled cover of an old book.
Courtesy of National Park Service, Lowell National Historical Park; The Diary of SUSAN MOORE WETHERBEE 1836 – 1841.

photo of an entry that reads:
January 1-36
Our Family consists of Parents and
Children eight in number- Grandmother - and
two boarders - vis Mr Lasure & Mr Windgate
likewise Mr Cater Lesure

Courtesy of National Park Service, Lowell National Historical Park; The Diary of SUSAN MOORE WETHERBEE 1836 – 1841.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

July 4th options: 1. Is it 1882? Check out the Balloon on Boston Common! 2. Is it 1840 - 1856? Visit the Lowell Museum, first opened on July 4th 1840. Mill Girl Susan Brown visited on July 4th 1843. 3. Are you Nathaniel Hawthorne? Happy Birthday! Go eat gingerbread & see a monkey, as per your diary.

Black and white stereoscope featuring men and women in formal dress on Boston common and a giant balloon in the middle.
https://antiquephotographicscollections.com/category/ballooning/keyword-ballooning/massachusetts-balloons/

Advertisement for the Lowell Museum, with lots more information here: https://libguides.uml.edu/early_lowell/Lowell_Museum this ad is from later, but it first opened on July 4th 1840. Susan Brown diary is here: https://libguides.uml.edu/c.php?g=542633

Hawthorne's diary entry here: https://biblioklept.org/2016/07/04/nathaniel-hawthornes-journal-entry-for-july-4th-1838/

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today's charming letter from 1867: woman in Wisconsin writes to her mother in Vermont saying that her husband bought her a "new delaine dress" (fancy!) which she sold to subscribe to The Atlantic: "I had rather have a good book, and a common, plain gingham dress, than a nice dress without the book."

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Thoughts on whether this letter's date is 1847 or possibly 1849? She writes "I expect to be married Tuesday morning if nothing happens to prevent." Records indicate she was married in November of 1849. So curious to know if something (and what!) happened in 1847, or if the letter is from 1849.

handwritten letter dated from Lowell Oct 27 [or maybe 29?] 1847 [or maybe 1849?]
Dear Brother
You'll excuse me as I trust....

excerpt from handwritten letter reading "I expect to be married next Tuesday morning if nothing happens to prevent..."

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Excited about this Nov 1849 letter from someone in Lowell in which they explain "I got Currer Bell's Shirley this morning -- its more voluminous than Jane Eyre, containing 296 pages." Brontë's Shirley, which features Luddite uprisings, had just been published 26 October 1849. Looking for more info!

clip of handwritten letter: "I got Currer Bell's Shirley this morning -- it's more voluminous than Jane Eyre, containing 296 pages" [note that the number is difficult to read -- I think it's 296, but welcome other interpretations]

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Archive work today: letter sent to a #Lowell mill girl: Miss Matildia Chandler, who worked on the Suffolk Corp, received a letter in Dec 1843 from family back home in Contoocookville, NH. It recounts illness, asks her to send 24 yards of calico fabric, and informs her of the deaths of many locals.

section of a handwritten letter in script addressed "Dear Matildia"

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Currently transcribing this curious letter from Harriet Staples who wrote it while "standing by my work in the Mill" in Manchester (NH) in October of 1848. She confesses to a variety of sins, including stealing candy. She's distraught and begs her sister's forgiveness.

Photograph of a handwritten letter from 1848 addressed to "Ever dear Sister"

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I worked at the Center for #Lowell History yesterday, transcribing some mill girl letters, but I know the content you really want to see: Early photos of Percy suggest he's at least partly an Australian cattle dog; he seemed unimpressed by the cow statue at the vet yesterday. He's doing great!

A white puppy with black speckles faces off with a very large statue of an oddly-painted cow.

a puppy with very large standing up ears, with his tongue licking his nose.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Important personal announcement: I'd like to introduce Percy, who joined our family last night. He is a delight. He came from Great Dog Rescue New England (gdrne.com), and we are grateful to them and to Percy's foster family.

A puppy, mostly white with black speckles. He's perfect.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This Saturday May 9th is Doors Open #Lowell: www.doorsopenlowell.org Check out the map to see which weird buildings are going to be open. I recommend the Masonic Temple, Moody Street Feeder Gatehouse plus all the churches, plus the Tremont Yard for creepy tunnels. It's a great event

Photo from inside the Lowell Masonic Temple in a large room with a ceiling painted to look like the sky and a lot of ceremonial chairs and altars

a photo from inside the Moody Street Feeder Gatehouse featuring a very large metal gear wheel

a stained glass window from St Anne's church in Lowell featuring bright colors and flowers

A creepy enormous underground tunnel at Tremont Street under the JDCU bank. Two frightened-looking young people stand at the other end of it. Definitely horror movie vibe.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In "May-Day Musings" Lowell Offering contributor Serena wrote that "My ramblings are limited to the walls of a factory; yet, in thought, I wander to far other fields and other forms and scenes surround me." Although "buried deep within the walls of a factory," she thought of flowers & friends.

text of "May-Day Musings":
"It has come at last, the long-anticipated day of flowers; and those, free to roam in search of nature's jewels, doubtless regret its dullness and gloom, and that the sun refuses to open, with the warmth of its beams, their bright petals. To me it matters not; yet for others' sake would I it were warm and pleasant, fit for even a May-day walk. My ramblings are limited to the walls of a factory; yet, in thought, I wander to far other fields and other forms and scenes surround me."

Full text available here: https://archive.org/details/lowelloffering00farlgoog/page/n163/mode/1up

"'Tis changed now, and the members of that scholar-band are scattered, O how widely! Even in the far-off Arkansas, one of our. number this day plucks this day the bright-hued flowers of a southern clime, while I am buried deep within the walls of a factory. Yet, though parted by distance, many, I ween, think now of that day as one of the happiest ever spent, and sigh for the presence of those friends with whom they held sweet communion in that May-day ramble. In my heart it will ever be cherished, a bright spot in memory's waste.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I have been thinking about this issue a lot lately, and it impacts the kind of work I can do going forward. One of my own past digital archive projects disappeared (I'm still working on recovering). I've abandoned a plan I had for a DH project even though I think it would be fun and useful.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Today I'm transcribing some "mill girl" letters from Harriot Curtis to Mehitable Eastman, in which I've discovered a huge rift between Curtis and Farley, the co-editors of the Lowell Offering: “Every time I have met Miss F. there has been some new and unexpected development of her rascality!”

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

*Very* excited that vol.1 of New Directions in the Ghost Story, edited by myself, @henrybartholomew.bsky.social & @joanpassey.bsky.social is out! Well done to all the contributors, and thanks for bearing with us! :) Please recommend to your academic libraries! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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New Directions in the Ghost Story, Volume I

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I'm having a wonderful and busy week in Portugal. I have five talks in five days here at the University of Minho in Braga (thanks, U Minho and Erasmus!). I had a free day today and filled it with a ton of museums, gardens, and churches. It is an incredibly beautiful and historic city.

poster for "Work in Progress Seminars" for the GAPS group at U Minho. Bridget Marshall 17 April at 11 am.

photograph of the Cathedral of Braga -- Sé de Braga -- an enormous stone building with arches, metal gates, and bells

Photo of the courtyard in Biscainhos Museum, Braga. There is a fountain in the middle, bright yellow walls and red tiled ceiling.

photo of Braga's Garden of Santa Barbara, featuring pointed arches in the foreground and an imposing castle with pointy tops behind.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

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Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

10 April 1880 the National Police Gazette reported on Sarah Hallock of Middletown, NY who received "a hair-pulling that nearly proves fatal" when her hair caught in the belts at the factory where she worked. "One more revolution would have broken her neck," but she survived.

black and white newspaper drawing featuring a woman bent over holding her head in front of a machine with belts that go up to the ceiling. Several other workers look on in horror and run towards her to help.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Loving these fashion ideas from 1886. Tag your choice. I'm "Vampire Mantle," but I think all of these are fantastic. From "Fun" magazine, a competitor to Punch.

clipping from "FUN" magazine titled "Suggestions for the ladies" featuring images of five women wearing (as per titles beneath) "The duck's feet gloves" "The cock-a-doodle-doo costume" "The fallow-deer chapeau" "The vampire mantle" and "the bovine Bonnet"
Date is February 10, 1886

second set of images of women in costumes with titles beneath: "The Piggee-Wiggee Visiting Toilette" "the Turkey Gown" "The camel hump costume" "the angry cockatoo Coiffure" "the Fretful Porcupine Dinner Robe" "the rattle-snake Tea-gown" "The puppy dog and skye-terrier toilettes for children"

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

#OTD 27 March 1869, the Sporting Times reported that a "pretty factory girl" in Manchester NH responded to a "worthless loafer" catcalling her by spitting on him, knocking off his hat w/ her parasol, and saying "I'll teach you to insult young ladies, you puppy, move off."

newspaper illustration featuring a young woman in a hat with ribbons hitting a man over the head with her parasol.

newspaper clipping:
"A Plucky Manchester Girl"
"Recently, a very pretty factory girl and employee of one of the large corporations of Manchester, N.H., had hung on her nice clothes and was sailing down Elm street with her ribbons flying, her silks fluttering in the wind, and a smile of conscious beauty irradiating her pretty face, when a brute of a fellow called out "Sis." adding some insolent remarks. The young lady did not wait for further affront, but turned on the worthless loafer, spat in his face, knocked off his hat with her parasol, and saying "I'll teach you to insult young ladies, you puppy, move off, amid the applause and cheers of the bystanders"

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Digital publication day! 🎉 I'm very proud of this little book on a difficult subject, one I take very much to heart (as I try to do with all my work, but especially this one). Gothic Dementia is free to download until April 12th! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Gothic Dementia

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Gothic Dementia

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, John Sloan's searing March 1911 illustration for the New York Call, a Socialist newspaper, responding to the tragic event

Drawing of a triangle with rent, profit, and interest on each of the three sides. Within it, the burnt body of a woman; a skeleton to the left, and a capitalist figure to the right

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Reading 1840s "flash press" for hilarious #Lowell content that ranges from "when is C.H. going to pay I.B. that five dollars he lent him" to "Bill B." was seen "with a young lady of notorious character" to a threat to "M" to stop reporting on "certain young men" or he "will get a flogging."

newspaper clipping from the Gleaner "Lowell, March 22, 1843 Lowell Wants to Know" column includes:
"When is C. H. going to pay I.B. that five dollars he lent him to go to Old Dick's Ball on the 22d of last month?"
"If Bill B. knew he was seen on the road between Lowell and Andover, one evening last week; with a young lady of notorious character"
"If that was Ike P's wife that G. D. took in to see the reformed drunkards play on Tuesday evening last"
"Where M. gets all of his information concerning certain young men of this city?"

This article is from https://www.americanantiquarian.org/american-underworld-flash-press

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

"The Factory Girl's Bloomers" appeared in Cotton Factory Times on 8 April 1898, telling the story of Lucy and her 2 suitors. Fred gets her a bicycle & encourages her to wear bloomers, scandalizing the other suitor and all the weavers at the factory who threaten to strike if Lucy isn't fired.

newspaper column featuring the title story "The Factory Girl's Bloomers"

Masthead of "The Cotton Factory Times" Manchester, Friday, April 8 1898.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Many thanks to the organizers of the #SSAG @ssag.bsky.social conference! I saw tons of great panels & loved meeting other Gothic folks. If you're still in #Salem I highly recommend you stop by the Peabody Essex Museum #PEM to see the Edmonia Lewis exhibit. It's wonderful. www.pem.org/exhibitions/...

Black and white photograph of Edmonia Lewis, a woman of Black and Indigenous (Mississauga) descent, from about 1870. She is seated at a table, looking at the camera.

Photograph of a sculpture in white marble by Edmonia Lewis of two hands clasped.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Anyone have recommendations of tools or tricks to organize research photos taken during #archive trips? My (many) photos of multi-page material from various archives are sitting around in google photos and I think there has to be a better way.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It is impossible to tell the story of #Lowell without focusing on women and immigrants, who are absolutely foundational to the city's founding, growth, and success. Today's Sun has more info on the erasing of history at Lowell National Historical Park. Enraging. www.lowellsun.com/2026/03/10/w...

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‘We must not allow our history to be erased’: Tara Hong calls attention to film removed from Lowell National Historical Park

LOWELL — The city of Lowell often celebrates the women and immigrants that helped shape the city as it developed into an industrial powerhouse in the 19th century, and for nearly 50 years the Lowel…

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Inspired by several threads sharing sources for public domain images, I looked for "factory" at the Public Domain Image Archive and was delighted to find this French illustration by Albert Robida: "Our Rivers and Atmosphere — The Multiplication of Various Pathogens, Microbes, and Bacteria" (1890).

Illustration features a jar on the left filled with river water and on the right filled with air. In the center and behind the two jars is an image of a river and trees but looming over them is a dystopian-looking series of black and grey industrial buildings with weird shapes and demonic red spots.

Our Rivers and Atmosphere — The Multiplication of Various Pathogens, Microbes, and Bacteria
Artist
Albert Robida
Date
1890

From
La vie électrique

Source: https://pdimagearchive.org/images/c7ff1d59-4527-4432-b56d-274e99ba3405/

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Bernice M. Murphy @murphgothic.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Tomorrow! 7pm Irish time! Join us for a fab deep dive into the world of Irish spooky podcasting! All welcome: you just need to register via the link below:

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Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Disability and the Gothic

Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Can't believe it's already my last day in Belfast! Spent it in one of my favorite research spots -- Linen Hall Museum -- and then also (finally) went to Belfast City Hall to see their excellent exhibit on the history of the building and the city, and took a tour of the building. Recommend both!

Photograph: view of Linen Hall Library -- nice wooden tables with green-glass lamps, shelves of old books, and a window that looks out onto City Hall

view of the rotunda inside Belfast City Hall.

A well-worn book cover for a book called "Industries (of) Ireland: Descriptive & Biographical Facts, Figures, and Illustrations". There are various scenes of Belfast on it.

Black and white photograph from inside Belfast City hall museum. It portrays a love of children, barefoot on a cobblestone street, and generally looking not so fancy. A quote is superimposed in white in front of them: "Many Belfast Mills are slaughterhouses for women and penitentiaries for the children." attributed to James Connolly an Winifred Carney, "To the Linen Slaves of Belfast" (1913)

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American Antiquarian Society @amantiquarian.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Apply today for the Historic Children’s Voices K-12 Teacher Institute Monday, August 10 - Friday, August 14, 2026 americanantiquarian.org/k-12-teacher-institute-2026

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I like to think that this establishment billing itself as "practical hatters" is distinguishing itself from all the "mad hatters." (from Adair's 1860-1 Belfast Directory)

printed ad that reads
John G. McGee & Co.,
Merchant Clothiers
and
Practicall Hatters
Army & Navy Tailors & Outfitters
to all parts of the Globe,
46, 48, & 50 High Street,
Belfast

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Gave a little talk today for a colleague's class on historic images of mills & factories and was surprised again by the fact that this image is from 1881. It's a watercolor by Joseph Pennell depicting Bethlehem Steel Works in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a place I called home for a few years.

Image source here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3g05734/
This is a grey-and-sepia-toned watercolor depicting a building made up of many odd towers and elements, along with several tall smokestacks belching a lot of dark grey smoke into the grey sky. The building is reflected in the water surrounding it.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"The Factory Girl" as she appeared in The Sunday School Hive & Juvenile Companion 1 June 1878: "factory girls, although labouring under many disadvantages, compare favourably with any other of the working classes of young women for thrift, for intelligence, and for religion."

black and white image of a pretty young woman who is holding a shawl around her that covers the top of her head. She is carrying a basket.

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Just found a new factory girl serial: "Salome Price, the Gipsy Factory Girl" by R. T. Casson in Illustrated Chips from 6 Oct 1894. Salome opens by triumphing in a knife fight with a man who has "bought" her as his wife, and runs off to Preston to earn her living as a weaver.

Black and white illustration titled "She seized a knife from the table, and made furious lunges at him, striking him first on the cheek, and then in the neck". The image features a woman plunging a knife into a man's chest; they are both inside a caravan.

masthead for "Illustrated Chips" notes "Begins Below -- the New Story!" and the price as a half penny

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Staying inside today due to threatening weather. Currently prepping my talk for tomorrow about two nineteenth-century industrial Gothic places: Cottonopolis (Lowell) and Linenopolis (Belfast). Wed 28 Jan at 4.15, Wolfson Room, Seamus Heaney Centre. If you're at Queens, you're very welcome to join!

image of a woman carrying a folded copy of the "Lowell offering" in one hand and a bag of money in the other. This is from a 19th-century Valentine, "The Pride of the Mills"

Painting of a smiling woman at a spinning wheel, from a 1783 image titled "Linen Manufacturing of Ireland"

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Did everyone else know about researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/ already? Searches 7 million records at 1,400 archival institutions all in ONE PLACE

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Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

A beautiful story from a church graveyard well worth a read. Thank you @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social for sharing and for your great care with these remains.

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