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The Prodigal Daughter; Or, Anna Taylor's Warning
The Prodigal Daughter; Or, A Strange and Wonderful Relation (or, indeed, The Disobedient Lady Reclaimed) is an eighteenth-century chapbook story about a "proud and disobedient daughter" who, at the...
View ArticleThe Centre for the Book at Monash
I was recently asked by Dr Stephen Herrin, Rare Books Assistant Librarian, to write the Preface to an exhibition entitled "Books Never Die: An Exhibition on the History of the Book" (see here). While I...
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The Mothers of the Novel Series
Pandora's "Mothers of the Novel" series was either prompted by, or promoted by—and with—Dale Spender's Mothers of the Novel: 100 good women writers before Jane Austen.[Spender's MotN; rear cover...
View ArticleYA fiction: Shameful Reading
According to this article, a survey of 1,863 people conducted in Britain this week suggests many e-book readers feel "freed" by the device to read books they would otherwise feel embarrassed about...
View ArticleBlogging and the Academy
This evening I read Marcy Willard and Dean Leffingwell's "Blogging to Accelerate Peer Review of Doctoral Dissertations" from e-Research Collaboration: Theory, Techniques and Challenges (2010). A search...
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When Shall We Three Meet Again?
As you can see in the pictures above and below, this phrase "When Will We Three Meet Again?" or "When Will We 3 Meet Again?" was some kind of meme from about 1890 to 1910. The reference is to the first...
View ArticleHaywood Confusing Garth for Harvey and Juvenal
Over the last couple of weeks I have been editing the text of Marriage A-la-Mode: An Humorous Tale (1746; Foxon M110; ESTC: t61540) for my eighteenth-century unit ATS3487 "Mayhem and Madness in the Age...
View ArticleEliza Haywood on YouTube
Discussions of Haywood are turning up in all kinds of places online, but I did not expect to find anything on YouTube. But here are some of the videos I found when I was updating my Haywood links...
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Haywood Lost in the War
When I was in Germany in 1995 and 1997, searching for copies of Haywood's works, I encountered a few ghosts. Two which stand out in my mind are translations of Ab.67 The History of Miss Betsy...
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Paratextual Satire: An Introduction
It seems that the locution "paratextual satire" is not new; credit for it must go to the late Dr Janis L. Pallister. Pallister used this phrase twenty years ago in an article on François Béroalde de...
View ArticleMarginal Marks in Books
On Monday Jeffrey P. Barton posted a question on the EXLIBRIS-List concerning how to describe various manuscript annotations to books. Jim Kuhn directed Jeffrey to The Shakespeare Quartos Archive...
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Literary Tattoos of Eighteenth-Century Authors
After considerable searching I can only find literary tattoos based on the works of three British authors other than Eliza Haywood (covered here): and they are Alexander Pope, Mary Wollstonecraft and...
View ArticleBook History at Monash in the 1960s
I have been planning for some time to do a series of posts on the early history of the Centre for the Book, which celebrates its thirtieth birthday this year. To this end I have been picking the brain...
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Ann Lang versus Lady Stanley
Kathryn R. King comments, "in Haywood criticism Ann Lang is nearly inescapable." This is because Edmund Gosse wrote an essay, "What Ann Lang Read," which appeared in his Gossip in a Library in 1891...
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Vintage Photos of Women Readers
About five years ago I started collecting vintage photos and artwork of women reading. The collection started by accident when someone sent me a link to an image of Marilyn Monroe on a now-defunct blog...
View ArticleTom Phillips' Readers (ca. 1900–1940)
My copy of Readers: Vintage People on Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive (The Bodleian Library, 2010)—see here—has now arrived. It is full of great images and has two very useful but also...
View ArticleJames Hammond's Circulating Library
New York Society Library (NYSL; NNYSL on ESTC) recently announced on the SHARP-list that it has completed an online catalogue of its Hammond Collection, which is comprised of 1,152 novels, plays,...
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Ambrotype of a Woman Reading (late 1850s)
This photo of a woman reading a book dates from the late 1850s. It can be dated by both the process used to capture the image and the image itself.The photo is a one-sixth-plate ambrotype and pinchbeck...
View ArticleThe City Widow Revisited
I did a long post on Haywood’s The City Widow over a year ago (see here), a post which—looking at it again—got quite side-tracked by my discussion of the prospect of editing the complete works of...
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1934 Magazine Stand and Bookshop
This anonymous photo of an unidentified newspaper stand and bookshop(?) is not really typical of the photos that turn up on eBay, but it is the sort of photo that does turn up regularly—regularly...
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