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Martine van Elk

@martinevanelk.bsky.social

Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course) bio.site/martinevanelk https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/ https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w

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Folger Shakespeare Library@folger.edu · yesterday

Now on the blog, curator @heatherwolfe.bsky.social shares heavily annotated books in the Folger collection from early modern readers who knew the power of underlining words, adding notes in the margin, and even putting the occasional doodle in what they were reading. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Marginalia Maxxing, Early Modern Style | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Mark Empey@memps2.bsky.social · last mo.

I missed this earlier but it’s yet another terrific #HerBook piece by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social. I’ve done a small bit of work on female gift giving (out soon!) but more needs to be done. And come on, how can you not resist a read by an owner named Dulcibella Dunch??? #earlymodern

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Martine van Elk@martinevanelk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · last mo.

Super-niche query based on my ongoing research on #earlymodern women and accounting: is there any work that's been done on Spanish women and numeracy--or even numeracy in Spain more generally? I'm thinking of something similar to @afroide.bsky.social and @jmotis.bsky.social 's work on England.

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Investigating accounting practices in Spanish convents has led me down a very interesting rabbit hole of #earlymodern arithmetic and accounting manuals. It's abundantly clear that the nuns had sophisticated knowledge and skills.

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please consider submitting something! The next Forum theme is Early Modern Women and Generations (full cfp in the quoted post). Our Forum is a great home for shorter pieces. Submissions are peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts will appear in the spring 2027 issue. #earlymodern

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal@emwjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern

The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2027/Volume 22.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Generations. In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 22.1, we invite contributions on **women and generations in the early modern world**. Papers might include examinations of intergenerational relationships among and between women, how gender shapes the expression of generational knowledge and status, how women preserve and protect the generations ahead of and behind them, how representations of generations are gendered, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum. Submissions are due October 1, 2026 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu. Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about. See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum
Dylan Lewis@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here’s something beautiful while I distract myself from the ESTC outage— our lovely copy of The Art of Contentment (Oxford, 1675) in a binding by Samuel Mearne, Charles II’s royal binder. Also some lovely inscriptions here, including a #HerBook!

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Giving this a boost. And just putting this out there: I'd love to workshop/present this work in the coming year. So organizers of seminars, conferences, etc, pls keep me in mind 🙂 and see the list in original post for some of the topics the project covers. #nuntastic #earlymodern 🗃

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It's summer! Excited to return to my work on a (hopefully) #nuntastic project on convent households in #earlymodern Europe. The project interrogates how we define households and pivots on questions about the use of space and formation of relationships within convent communities, broadly defined.

Martine van Elk@martinevanelk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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

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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Art Herstory@artherstory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New post on the #ArtHerstory blog! In "Women’s Depictions of Midwives in Early Modern Art" Jane Salvage discusses & interprets the role of midwives in birth scenes painted by early modern #womenartists. #ArtemisiaGentileschi #OrsolaMaddalenaCaccia #LaviniaFontana artherstory.net/womens-depic...

Women's Depictions of Midwives in Early Modern Art

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

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Martine van Elk@martinevanelk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

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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AAUP@aaup.org · 5mo ago

Oscar-winner Ryan Coogler recalling how a college writing professor pushed him to become a screenwriter & the possibility of #Sinners being taught in film curriculums someday: “I have so much respect for professors…for dedicating their life to future generations & making sure their minds are solid.”

Christine Kooi@christinekooi.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Friends & colleagues: please allow me in little self-promotion. I'll be in Ghent 25 May-15 June and Leiden 16 June-7 July for research (geopolitics permitting!). If anyone would like me to come talk to their group/class about my 1572 project, I am happy to do so. Just send me a DM. #earlymodern