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Since beginning my research on the commonplace books of Ellen Warter, I – like their author – have been preoccupied with the Brontës. For...

Since beginning my research on the commonplace books of Ellen Warter, I – like their author – have been preoccupied with the Brontës. For...

My object of the week is an image from Mary Banning’s The Fungi of Maryland, a lush volume with 175 hand-painted watercolors accompanied...

My object of the week is an image from Mary Banning’s The Fungi of Maryland, a lush volume with 175 hand-painted watercolors accompanied...

I’ve written previously about wanting to explore ideas and thoughts for my next research project on this blog. Today I’d like to do so by...

I’ve written previously about wanting to explore ideas and thoughts for my next research project on this blog. Today I’d like to do so by...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Research Funding Award from the British Association for Victorian Studies for research...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Research Funding Award from the British Association for Victorian Studies for research...

My object of the week is this newly-acquired patchwork made c. 1804 by Birmingham writer Catherine Hutton, now in the collections of...

My object of the week is this newly-acquired patchwork made c. 1804 by Birmingham writer Catherine Hutton, now in the collections of...

I’ve now Storified our AAH 2016 panel, The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, which is...

I’ve now Storified our AAH 2016 panel, The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, which is...

MS Am 1118.11. Houghton Library, Harvard University My object of the week comes from this fascinating article ‘The Lost Gardens of Emily...

MS Am 1118.11. Houghton Library, Harvard University My object of the week comes from this fascinating article ‘The Lost Gardens of Emily...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Stephen Copley Research Award from the British Association for Romantic Studies for...

I’m excited to announce that I’ve been awarded a Stephen Copley Research Award from the British Association for Romantic Studies for...

London’s Outrage punk fanzine My object of the week comes from Jon Savage’s article ‘Fanzines: the purest explosion of British punk‘,...

London’s Outrage punk fanzine My object of the week comes from Jon Savage’s article ‘Fanzines: the purest explosion of British punk‘,...

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a Short-Term Research Fellowship from the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, which...

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a Short-Term Research Fellowship from the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, which...