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Dr. Tara Lyons

@tarallyons.bsky.social

Professor; Bibliography, women and libraries, early modern books and storage; book trade, histories of information; playbooks; Shakespeare; English literature, drama, cats, horses, bees, and little furry critters

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Dr Leah Veronese@leahveronese.bsky.social · 3mo ago

HELP WANTED!! @stemma.bsky.social I am working on Folger MS V.b.370, a self-proclaimed 'Rich Cabinet'. The compiler clearly loved giving their MSS ostentatious titles, my favourite being 'My Merchant Ship Laden with Variety of Wares'. Ever come across these MSS titles below? Please get in touch 1/3

Photo of the title of Folger MS V.b.370 written in large italic and framed by two squiggling lines TEXT: 'a Rich Cabinet or Common Place Book
Martine van Elk@martinevanelk.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delighted to have a brand new post from @tamarajatkin.bsky.social with some excellent research on more books owned by Bathsua Makin; the picture of Makin as a writer is becoming more complex with each discovery earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/b... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Bathsua Reginal Makin’s Books at Dulwich College, London

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…

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Dr. Tara Lyons@tarallyons.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This arrived in the mail today. My essay analyzes Greg’s Bibliography of English Printed Drama and its idiosyncratic taxonomies for “Collections,” which prioritized canonical authors like Shakespeare but completely excluded dramatists like Margaret Cavendish.

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Martine van Elk@martinevanelk.bsky.social · last yr.

Today on the blog: a fascinating discussion by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on a book on marriage and choosing a wife owned by Elizabeth Cromwell, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e... #HerBook #EarlyModern

Alexander Niccholes, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving (1615)

A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving and of the Greatest Mystery Therein Contained: How to Choose a Good Wife from a Bad was written by Alexander Niccholes, self-identified as a “Batchelour in the Ar…

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Just read (+ blurbed) the galleys of this book! It's 🌟🎉🪴🔥💕!! A thrilling, moving, heartening text, given shape through @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's + @wehere.bsky.social's clever play on bibliographic + bureaucratic form. Such a ✨ mix of protocol + improvisation. Can't wait to see this out in the 🌏

Dorothy Berry@dorothyjberry.bsky.social · last yr.

There is so much bad news on micro and macro levels lately, I will share a little personal win. Here is a sneak peek at a very early dummy of the interior layout for my book "The House Archives Built, and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility," upcoming from @wehere.bsky.social press.

A mock-up of an open book- on one side there is light mint/robin's egg blue background and the text "The House Archives Built, Revisited" with smaller text in a typerwriterish font. On the other side there is a sepia photo from the 1870's of a Black man standing on a porch with his hands on a chair and his legs crossed in a jaunt manner.
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last yr.

The real reason academic conferences exist is that after you have marinated your brain in hundreds of books on a single field of study for 10+ years there are only so many people you can speak coherent sentences to, and it’s a pleasure to have them all in one place 😅

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last yr.

‘As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, outbidding and outsmarting rivals wherever she went.’ Francesca Wade on Belle da Costa Greene: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Francesca Wade · Why waste time hot airing? The Best-Paid Woman in NYC

In​ her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal...

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Dr. Tara Lyons@tarallyons.bsky.social · last yr.

Trolley #2 complete! The Countess of Bath, Rachel (Fane) Bourchier purchased books for Trinity Dublin College in 1671. One was Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiocus (1654), a fascinating (albeit flawed) work of orientalist scholarship.

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Dr. Tara Lyons@tarallyons.bsky.social · last yr.

Trolley #1. I’m at Trinity Dublin for the next two weeks to reconstruct the Countess of Bath’s library. Thanks to the library staff for helping make this happen. Now, back to work— there are more than a hundred volumes to examine. Happy days ahead.

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