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Sarah Lindenbaum

@franceswolfreston.bsky.social
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Jack of all trades & master of none: Frances Wolfreston scholar, librarian, book historian, Dylanologist, poet, native gardener, historic preservationist, small-time campaign manager. Former professor & rare-book cataloger. EM women's reading, too. She/her

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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have a poem in the inaugural issue of One Shot Magazine. You can get a copy here if you're interested for a mere $4.38! www.oneshotmagazine.org/page #poetry #poets #poems
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'm excited to share that I have a poem in the Winter in America (Still volume, which examines the aftermath of the 2024 election. You can order it here if you're interested: www.winterinamerica.org
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I received word this morning that my friend and mentor Don W. Krummel died on Thursday. I am so, so sad. Don was the one who encouraged me to concentrate my scholarship on Frances Wolfreston back when I was in library school and he kept up avidly on "Wolfie." I will miss him more than I can say.
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Today on the blog, Sarah Lindenbaum discusses a gifted book and two other books owned by the wonderfully named Dulcibella Dunch, giving us an indication of her library and reading practices. earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/d... #HerBook #EarlyModern
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Francis White, A Replie to Jesuit Fishers Answere to Certain Questions Propou[n]ded by His Most Gratious Ma[jes]tie King James (1624)
As Joseph Black shows in a previous post, gift inscriptions can be excellent sources of information about early women’s reading. While this 1624 edition of Bishop Francis White’s A Replie to Jesuit…
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Today (after a bit of a hiatus) a brand-new blog post by Joe Black and Hilary Ely on joint early modern inscriptions by an aunt and nice in a copy of a book by Josephus with a bit of verse earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/f... #HerBook #EarlyModern
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Flavius Josephus, Famous and Memorable Works (1640)
By Hilary Ely and Joseph Black The Cranston Library, Reigate, an English parish lending library founded in 1701, has in its collection a copy of Flavius Josephus’s Famous and Memorable Works (1640,…
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This week's Early Modern Female Book Ownership blog features a religious book owned by possibly Devonian female owners. #HerBook
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I hope Aphra Behn wins her special election today. 🤞@aftynbehn.bsky.social
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
More amazing work from @tamarajatkin.bsky.social on Bathsua Makin's books. I'm especially interested in the book that she inscribed "B. Makin." On the open market, without a scholar's eye, this is the type of inscription that could easily be mistaken for a man's. #HerBook
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Nicole Simmons @nicolesimmonsart.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Tonight’s silly sketchbook mood. #art
Ridiculous sketched portrait of a poor stressed out soul who needs 5 more days on their weekend.
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It's always a treat to find a gift book owned or given by a woman, and doubly so when the giver is none other than poet Katherine Phillips. #HerBook
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern
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Thomas Pierce, Philallelia, or, The Grand Characteristick Whereby a Man may be Known to be Christ’s Disciple (1658)
Today’s featured book has three contemporary owners’ signatures crammed onto the upper fifth of its title page, Edward Wilmot and the signature of “Lady Bellamount,” which is bifurcated by the sign…
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Womanhood: Always a political experience in more ways than one. "...it is possible that she wanted to read more closely about traits that would attract a good suitor and make her a virtuous wife, not just one whose connections and station in life appealed to her future husband." #HerBook
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Anyone with superior #paleography skills want to take a stab at Martha's last name? #HerBook
The name "martha sam[...?]" in the margins of a 1631 book.
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
@tarallyons.bsky.social knocks it out of the park with this essay about book collector Katherine Blount's daughter (or granddaughter) Catharina Freman, who was a bibliophile herself and had a collection that includes travel books, literature, histories, and religious works. 👏👏👏 #HerBook
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Some top-notch detective work by Joe Black here in recovering the identities of these long-ago sisters. #HerBook
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social does some excellent detective work to trace the identity of a female owner of a devotional work and a book with advice for young men earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/t... #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17
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Thomas Vincent, The Wells of Salvation Opened (1668) / Advice to Young Men (1668)
The previous owner of this leatherbound sammelband containing two works by clergyman Thomas Vincent was not a young man, but a woman likely approaching or in middle age. The book is signed on the f…
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
As @tarallyons.bsky.social (Terra Lions?) points out, flexible spelling conventions in the early modern period complicate identifying female book owners. #HerBook
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record
Hereford Cathedral Library holds a fragmentary seventeenth-century letter addressed to a ‘Mrs Shakspaire’, concerning her husband’s dealings with a fatherless apprentice named John Butte or Butts. ...
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses a lovely little bible with red velvet binding and an inscription by a woman dated 1652 earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/t... #EarlyModern #HerBook
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The Holy Bible (1640)
Sometimes, despite one’s best efforts, a book owner simply eludes identification. In this instance, it is one Joyes Pears who owned a 1640 Bible printed by Robert Barker in the mid-seventeent…
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Today on the blog, a rich post by @michelinewhite.bsky.social on a fascinating copy of the romance Argenis by John Barclay, owned by three different generations of early modern Scottish women buff.ly/GJYrHCa #EarlyModern #HerBook
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John Barclay’s Argenis (1628) and Three Generations of Erskine Women from Scotland
Figure 1. John Barclay, Argenis (London, 1628). Carleton University, PR 2209 B35 A73. Photos by Micheline White. All images reproduced with permission. There is something special about a book treas…
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Today on the blog: another wonderful post by Joe Black about an entertaining sermon on marriage, joint male/female early modern ownership, and a connection to Mary Wroth buff.ly/41kAMlT #EarlyModern #HerBook
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Robert Wilkinson, The Merchant Royall: A Sermon Preached at the Nuptials of the Lord Hay and His Lady (1607)
A woman, according to Jacobean royal chaplain Dr Robert Wilkinson (d.1617), “is like a Ship indeed, for first whosoever marries, ventures; he ventures his estate, hee ventures his peace, he venture…
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Maybe we should rename Early Modern Female Book Ownership 'Katherine Blount, Richard Allestree, and Maybe a Few Other Things Too,' @martinevanelk.bsky.social. 😂
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Transcription help needed! I have been staring at the letter before the "Wolferstan" along the top edge for over 10 years now and I have never been able to figure it out. Any guess as to what initial or initials it representations? #Paleography #Handwriting
Pencil signatures in a book reading in part "Wolferstan" and "1704."
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Could someone point me toward a citation for a census of the extant copies of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania? Help, please!
Portrait of Lady Mary Wroth, author of Urania.
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Start your week off with this moving post by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on an early modern female owner of Donne's Poems buff.ly/4gK8Vkk #HerBook #EarlyModern @tarallyons.bsky.social @michelinewhite.bsky.social @memps2.bsky.social @erinannmcc.bsky.social
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Poems, by J[ohn]. D[onne]., with Elegies on the Authors Death, 1639
Surprisingly, Early Modern Female Book Ownership has never before profiled a copy of John Donne’s oft reprinted Poems: With Elegies on the Authors Death, first published two years after the p…
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Today on the blog, a great post by Joe Black, on female ownership and authorship of the Countess of Morton's Daily Exercise buff.ly/3VwXZOv #EarlyModern #HerBook @franceswolfreston.bsky.social @memps2.bsky.social @tarallyons.bsky.social @michelinewhite.bsky.social
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Anne Douglas, Countess of Morton, The Countess of Morton’s Daily Exercise (1696)
The Countess of Morton’s Daily Exercise was an early modern best seller, appearing in seventeen editions between 1666 and 1696. It was a steady seller as well, with at least eight additional editio…
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Lots going on in this Bible! #HerBook
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Sarah Lindenbaum @franceswolfreston.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Started off the morning reading The Paris Review's 2021 interview with Annette Gordon-Reed. On reading White over Black at age 12, she said: "That book is well written enough for someone that age to read it and understand, and that’s how history should be." That's how I strive to write history.
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