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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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Nurse, activist and author Jane Salvage discusses and interprets the role of midwives in birth scenes painted by early modern women artists.

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,…

Painter Michaelina Wautier was forgotten and misattributed for centuries. Then one woman began piecing together the fragments

Painter Michaelina Wautier was forgotten and misattributed for centuries. Then one woman began piecing together the fragments

This second edition copy of theologian Richard Sibbes’s The Bruised Reede, and Smoaking Flax (1631) contains the ownership inscriptions of two early modern women named Martha. The book was original…

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

By Tamara Atkin In a blog post earlier this year, I announced the discovery of a book once owned by the ten-year-old Bathsua Reginal Makin, scholar and teacher, who in the 1640s was tutor to Prince…

By Tamara Atkin In a blog post earlier this year, I announced the discovery of a book once owned by the ten-year-old Bathsua Reginal Makin, scholar and teacher, who in the 1640s was tutor to Prince…

It has long been known that the famous Eikon Basilike, attributed to Charles I and published shortly after his execution, was popular with seventeenth-century women readers. So far, our blog has fe…