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Georgina Wilson

@georginaemw.bsky.social
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Teacher and researcher of literature and material texts 1550-1830, Oxford. Author of *Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature* (Penn, 2025) shorturl.at/5D7VY www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/georgina-…

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
It's the @pennpress.bsky.social summer sale, which means nearly 6.5 free pages per sheet in quarto (otherwise known as 40% off) if you'd like a copy of Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature! Use code PENN-SUMMER26 at checkout
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postmedieval @postmedieval.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
the issue is temporarily #openaccess, head over to our website to read contributions by @leonieboettiger.bsky.social (@mpiwg.bsky.social), @drcourt.bsky.social, @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, @georginaemw.bsky.social among others‬:
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postmedieval is a journal focusing on the premodernity and its ongoing reverberations.Publishes four times a year with some issues being themed and ...
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I'll be in York tonight speaking at the ever generative, friendly, and rigorous @crems-york.bsky.social seminar about my book! Come for a discussion about paper and literary criticism, stay for "a thinge in verse", a disgruntled stationer, and a spinnable paper dial.
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
It's 13 March day! If you'd like a free copy of my prose collage of one day from the past -- 13 March 1911 -- send me a DM and I'll see what I can do. www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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Small found dogs
Adam Smyth’s new book, 13 March 1911, takes an experimental approach to (auto)biography. A verbal collage, it consists of textual fragments documenting various events and announcements that took place...
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Is it a book or is it a box? Should we, could we, would we know?
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
TODAY! I'm looking forward to speaking about my book **Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature** at 5.15pm GMT - come along online or in person (Queen's College, Ox) @obs1922.bsky.social
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
'Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you'. --Ford Madox Ford. Here's my blog post on the page 99 test and **Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature** shorturl.at/tExjl @pennpress.bsky.social
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Uncut pages in a copy of the @thetls.bsky.social! A glimpse into the production process makes a text suddenly strange
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🎥 📚 I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments. If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost). Thank you!
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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Next week, Penn Press authors @georginaemw.bsky.social (PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE) and @wsperrazza.bsky.social (ANATOMICAL FORMS) will discuss their books in a virtual panel! See the flyer for more info, and join the event on Thursday Sept. 18 at 12 p.m. CDT / 6 p.m. BST!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
It's 2 weeks until the joint launch of @wsperrazza.bsky.social's ANATOMICAL FORMS, Jonathan P. Lamb's HOW THE WORLD BECAME A BOOK IN SHAKESPEARE'S ENGLAND and my PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! All welcome - join us 6-7pm BST on Thursday 18th Sep. (Message me for Zoom details)
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
'Chapters remain through all these genres a fundamental tool of composition: a way of writing stories, shaping readings, and making physical and digital "books".’
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
For the next 4 weeks, when not in the Walpole library archives, I'll be listening to Clarissa on audiobook and reading Charles Lamb's essays. Eighteenth-centuryist method acting!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Foxes and Holidays! I reviewed new editions of old plays in @thetls.bsky.social
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Early modern London in new editions of early modern plays
There are eleven commendatory and dedicatory poems at the start of Ben Jonson’s comedy Volpone, or, The Fox, both as it first appeared in print in 1607
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A sneak preview of the brilliant line up in a special issue of Critical Quarterly on *PAPER AND POETRY: INTERVENTIONS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE* that I co-edited with Orietta Da Rold!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Applications for 2 artists' residencies now open at Thin Ice Press! Deadline 25th July www.thinicepress.org/research/pri...
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print matters artist’s residencies — Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print, offering memberships, workshops, equipment hire, events & exhibition space.
Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print welcomes applications for two artist’s residencies, to take place across five days between August and September 2025 as part of our research project: Print ...
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thanks to our panellists and engaged audience for a wonderful discussion on critical writing, creative writing, close reading, and the jutting elbows of proximate essayists @univeng.bsky.social
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Thanks so much to co-editor @zacharylesser.bsky.social as well as all our fantastic contributors! We're thrilled that this special issue is out in the world
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Had a brilliant week learning about Artists' Books @ies-sas.bsky.social with @gillpartington.bsky.social! We saw sculptures, boxes, pills, epherama, and >25 gasoline stations. Parts of one page were consumed in the process.
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Setting up Thin Ice Press for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair with @wordsmith.bsky.social - come along and say hello at the Exam Schools this weekend!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Are you a) intrigued by artists' books, and b) looking for something to do 16th-20th June? There's still time to sign up for this course ran by the brilliant @gillpartington.bsky.social
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Looking forward to our Print Exchanges flash talks tomorrow at 4pm GMT! Come along to learn about 6 brilliant new projects from @printlady.bsky.social @john-stone.bsky.social @profjrussell.bsky.social Eve Houghton, Priya Nambrath, and Stacie Vos. Email printexchanges@gmail.com for registration link
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Huge thanks to Dianne Mitchell and Adhaar Noor Desai for organising such an energised seminar on Shared Forms! We discussed hating Tuesdays, collaborative v. competitive sharing, and the seminar form. Also some tables were sat on #shax2025
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Birkbeck's Diversity100 Doctoral Scholarships welcome candidates in Renaissance literature - applications open until 19th May www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...
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Diversity100 PhD Studentships — Birkbeck, University of London
Find out about Birkbeck's Diversity100 PhD studentships, for BAME applicants with home fees status.
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Proofs!
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I'm organising a series of flash talks on 26th March for Print Exchanges: a global research network for anyone working on early(ish) print culture, broadly conceived. If you'd like to join the network, come to the event, or share your work do get in touch at printexchanges@gmail.com
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
My book has a cover! Forthcoming in September thanks to the team @pennpress.bsky.social www.pennpress.org/978151282744...
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Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature – Penn Press
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
On 21st Feb I'll be talking about Why Making Books Means Reading Differently at York's Thin Ice Press - come along to hear about books familiar and curious, amid our printing presses, ink, and type www.thinicepress.org/events/why-m...
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Why Making Books Means Reading Differently — Thin Ice Press
Do you prefer to read novels on Kindles or curl up with a paperback? Have you ever discarded a dustjacket to the waste-paper basket, or decided you preferred the original front cover to a new edition?...
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This!
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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Excited to see this out finally! Thanks to @georginaemw.bsky.social tweeting about @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social's paper at the 2021 conf (also in the book), I introduced myself to Malcolm, we got talking about shared #QueerBibliography interests and unanswered Qs and then a load of good stuff happened
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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
A little, last-minute reminder that the deadline to send proposals to @georginaemw.bsky.social and me is tomorrow! We've had some fabulous submissions so far, and can't wait to review everything in the round.
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
**Print Matters summer school** Applications now open! Deadline 12th Feb 3 days of practical printing sessions, trips, and seminar discussions based at York's Thin Ice Press www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
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Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
When the cat gets involved in making mini reading groups for Print Exchanges
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/b... on (re)reading marginalia @thetls.bsky.social
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A very practical Renaissance reader
When the sixteenth-century scholar Gabriel Harvey wasn’t batting off Thomas Nashe’s accusations of deporting himself with “a careless rude rustianisme”,
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm organising small reading groups to give and receive writing feedback for anyone working on premodern print and book culture (generously defined). Drop an email to printexchanges@gmail.com by Friday 13th December to register your interest! printexchanges.wordpress.com
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Really looking forward to chairing our Print Exchanges roundtable on Critical Bibliography today - come along to hear from our brilliant panellists and take part in this and future conversations printexchanges.wordpress.com/forthcoming-...
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Forthcoming Events
Critical Bibliography A Roundtable 4.00-5.15pm GMT, Wednesday 13th November 2024 Location: online, by zoom. Registration required.* We are delighted to announce our forthcoming event on Critical Bi…
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge and Making Texts: A Handbook* Send your research proposals and creative responses to Helen Smith and me by 13th Jan www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...
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Call for submissions — Thin Ice Press
Call for contributors! We’re looking for craftspeople and academics to be part of an exciting volume on embodied knowledge and making texts.
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Parergon Journal @parergon.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
Want to know all about issue 40.2 of Parergon? Our guest editors, @katefallan.bsky.social and Nupur Patel have written a post for the Parergon blog about the special issue on early modern women's agency, how it came together, and its aims and contents. parergon.org/index.php/pa...
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