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Molly G. Yarn

@mgyarn.bsky.social
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Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.

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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Any authors make a New Year’s resolution not to index their own book? If so, I’ve got room for you in my schedule! Reach out and we’ll chat! mollygyarn.com/indexing-and...
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The brilliant @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social spreading the word on how issues with the ESTC affect scholarship on women in the book trade.
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Digital Bibliography in the Age of Linked Data | Journal of Early Modern Studies
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Authors, I have availability for indexing jobs until August — get in touch if you’re planning on wrapping up a book this summer!
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Hocus Pocus GIF
Alt: Hocus Pocus GIF Bette Midler opening a window and summoning her spell book.
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📚Fedorak Indexing @indexosaurus.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Here's your reminder to check in early with your press regarding their process and timeline for indexing. If you want someone with subject expertise, start your search for an indexer at least 3 months before you will need to hire them. 1/2
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
As others have noted, it’s truly wild to see Terry Doughty write this. He is one of the most extreme MAGA judges appointed in Trump’s first term, author of many wacky, hard-right rulings reversed on appeal. When even he is appalled by an illegal deportation—it’s a sign of something. Wow.
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Actual art about actual US history. No stolen NEH grant money required.
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Lest We Forget
An Introduction to "Denise’s Shoes"
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 24/04/2025
They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.
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Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My dad @doomcdoo.bsky.social is channeling his rage into a Substack that applies his professional experience in conflict resolution to the current situation. So I contributed a little something.
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No Taxation Without Representation
or, You Can’t Spell “Unitary Executive” Without “Personal Rule”
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My dad @doomcdoo.bsky.social is channeling his rage into a Substack that applies his professional experience in conflict resolution to the current situation. So I contributed a little something.
douglasyarn.substack.com
No Taxation Without Representation
or, You Can’t Spell “Unitary Executive” Without “Personal Rule”
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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
i'm excited to share new work on milton's books at RSA & doubly excited to do so alongside @mgyarn.bsky.social & amrita dhar on a panel sponsored by @bibsocamer.bsky.social! thanks to @aarontpratt.bsky.social for facilitating & @chrisvvarren.bsky.social for chairing. please join if you're free! 👇
A screenshot of information about a panel at RSA 2025 called "Milton and the Book." Full text available via this link: https://rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/8488
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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Your periodic reminder that if you plan to hire an indexer and/or proofreader for your academic book, you should be looking for them as soon as you get your production schedule (shortly after turning in your final MS). If your publisher doesn’t tell you when to expect typeset proofs, ask!
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I wish I could be at MLA to accept my book award, but it’s appropriate, given the category is books by Independent/Contingent Scholars — without institutional support, I can only afford one conference a year. Please cheer loudly if you’re at the ceremony, and I’ll see my SAA/RSA gang in Boston soon!
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
No one: Absolutely no one: Me: Make another Master and Commander movie, you cowards!
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a man playing a violin while another man plays a guitar
Alt: Aubrey and Maturin playing their instruments, then a shot of HMS Surprise sailing away
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I’m so honored that Shakespeare’s Lady Editors is the co-winner of the 2024 MLA Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars! Please check it out, and enjoy this Uncooperative Cat outtake in celebration. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
An orange tabby cat refusing to pose nicely with a stack of books.
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Lost Manuscripts @lostmss.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉 research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
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News - Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies - Research at Kent
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.
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Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Hello, new people! Super glad you’re here! I’ll try to catch up on follows, but in the meantime, I just went to Australia, so here’s a picture of me with a kangaroo!
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Academic authors - did you, during the halcyon days of summer, think, sure, I can index my own book during the school year, and are now experiencing a sinking feeling as reality sets in? If so, I can help! I have openings for index jobs throughout the year. mollygyarn.com/indexing-and...
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18/01/2024
This is highly useful if you work with #earlymodern books of all kinds: a compiled and explained set of contemporary abbreviations. From apothecaries' weights to signs for half moon moments in almanacs. Boost, #bookhistory and #skystorians looking for abbreviations of the past. 🗃️
The "Falttafel" of 1782 is part of a book titled "Sammlung verschiedener nützlicher Lesübungen..." (VD18 12041491-001), and can be found here between pp. 151 and 152: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:UBA-HSB-00000BAV80014690The "Falttafel" of 1782 is part of a book titled "Sammlung verschiedener nützlicher Lesübungen..." (VD18 12041491-001), and can be found here between pp. 151 and 152: https://www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:UBA-HSB-00000BAV80014690
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
I’ve read every word of Adam’s book three times (in other words, indexed it) and can promise you that it’s EXCELLENT.
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Georgians, please vote early!
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
SHAKESPEARE’S LADY EDITORS is now available in paperback! And even more insanely affordable at £23/$30! #bookhistory www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Paperback copies of the book Shakespeare’s Lady Editors
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
From Eric Rasmussen and myself, new evidence and observations on Shakespeare’s handwriting in Sir Thomas More, out now in PBSA. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Vincent of Lérins’s Commonitorium and Shakespeare’s Hand D in Sir Thomas More | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 3
Abstract A newly discovered sixteenth-century manuscript leaf of Vincent of Lérins’s Commonitorium manifests a distinctive scribal habit in the formation of cursive h-a previously thought to be unique...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/08/2024
NEW: Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible & their lives miserable.
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Why I Left the Network
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
I’ve been waiting a long time for being a Georgia Democrat to be fun again.
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 15/08/2024
Today on the blog, in a meticulously argued post, Joe Black discusses two books almost certainly owned by Aphra Behn, the second of which has hardly ever been noted in scholarship buff.ly/4dp08CK #HerBook
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Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (1664); Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatall Dowry: A Tragedy (1632)
Only one surviving book has so far been identified as belonging to the poet, playwright, proto-novelist, translator, and spy Aphra Behn (1640-89), a copy of Thomas Killigrew’s Comedies and Tragedies (...
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Excuse me?
Photo of Facebook marketplace listing with title “Nazi jewelry box” priced at $50.
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
Academic authors - did you, during the halcyon days of summer, think, sure, I can index my own book during the school year, and are now experiencing a sinking feeling as reality sets in? If so, I can help! I have openings for index jobs throughout the year. mollygyarn.com/indexing-and...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
'Research funders, and many universities, only say ‘yes’ to working with people employed by other institutions. This enables institutions to retain their power at the expense of skilled professionals. But, it also disadvantages institutions...because they are unable to hire the best people.'
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Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research
Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating and accessing research-based knowledge. However, as Helen Kara and Petra Boynton argue, seen from the outside these claims are hollow. Perha…
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 26/07/2024
Childless cat lady…in a swing state.
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Molly G. Yarn @mgyarn.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Always ready to ask the important questions about the 17th century book trade.
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