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claire m. l. bourne

@roaringgirle.bsky.social

¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com

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Elizabeth Kolkovich@ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Attention #EarlyModern and #Shakespeare friends: join me on this Giving Tuesday in donating to an Open Access fund for Meghan C. Andrews’s book. Cancer took Meghan from us in 2023, but her legacy can live on. Share widely!

Donate to Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph, organized by Sarah Neville

Shakespeare scholar Meghan C Andrews passed away in 2023, after a valiant… Sarah Neville needs your support for Help Publish Meghan's Shakespeare Monograph

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claire m. l. bourne@roaringgirle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

seeking pointers to texts (academic or otherwise; primary or secondary; early modern or not) that discuss/theorize 'failure'? bonus points if it specifically addresses _textual_ 'failure'. here's an impression of fallen type for your troubles👇

A close-up image of a printed playtext on a page in _Comedies & Tragedies_ (1647) where the inked impression of a piece of fallen type is visible. You can see the rectangular body of the typesort and make out that the letter on top of it is probably a lower-case 'r'.
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history? sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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claire m. l. bourne@roaringgirle.bsky.social · 10mo ago

i’m talking more about john milton and ‘books read promiscuously’ on monday at penn state. if you’re in central PA and want to learn about what we are learning about milton’s reading from what he wrote in his books, i’d love to see you! 📚♾️

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claire m. l. bourne@roaringgirle.bsky.social · 10mo ago

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587). the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.
claire m. l. bourne@roaringgirle.bsky.social · 12mo ago

we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts. what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!

Brandi K. Adams@bkadams.bsky.social · 12mo ago

For those of you going to Denver’s SAA, please consider joining @roaringgirle.bsky.social and me to talk about the importance of public libraries, Shakespeare, and other early modern literature. There’s so much to consider in our current political climate:

[ SEMINAR • SAA 2026 ] SHAKESPEARE & PUBLIC LIBRARIES This seminar examines the role of public libraries (local, national and international) in the preservation, dissemination, and study of the books and other media that transmit works by Shakespeare and other early modern writers. The recent identification of two books once owned by John Milton—a Shakespeare First Folio and a copy of Holinshed's Chronicles-at two American public libraries (The Free Library of Philadelphia and the Phoenix Public Library, respectively) and the presence of another of Milton's books (a sammelband of early Italian editions) at a third (The New York Public Library) invites us to acknowledge and rethink an implicit bias towards well-funded elite libraries and collections as privileged sites of textual and historical research. How might our knowledge of early modern textual history and the history of early modern books in the longue durée change with greater consideration of public collections? What do (and could) scholarly partnerships with public libraries look like-and what can they achieve in terms of bolstering the value of humanistic inquiry? How might the histories of (and transmitted by) the early modern books in these collections, which we are uniquely positioned to tell, relate to the specific local communities that they serve? In this way, the seminar is also interested in the ways that public libraries feature Shakespeare in the promotion of their circulating collections, educational programming, and public events, as many U.S. public libraries did during the quatercentenaries of Shakespeare's death in 2016 and of the publication of the first folio in 2023. While the idea for this seminar emerges from our experiences working in American public libraries, we would welcome contributions from scholars and librarians considering the role of public libraries in Shakespeare and early modern studies in various different regional and national traditions.