The family broken up in a slave auction Dear friends and readers, I continue my report of the fine conference (East Central Region meeting of ASECS at Penn State) centering on the concept of liberty in the long 18th century. Over the course of three days, there emerged a developing definition for different groups of [...]
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EC/ASECS conference on liberty in the long 18th century at Penn State: enslaved families; professional women, Priestley, the Paterno library
Posted in 18th century, America 18thcentury, conference report, Conferences, feminism, library books, Plays, Poetry, politics, science, Slavery, Theater, women's novels, tagged Elizabeth Farren, elizabeth inchbald, enslaved women, gambling as liberty, heroine's text, hester thrale piozzi, mary wells, Susannah Centivre on November 17, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Books in art and science: Sharp (3): community identities through books (Australia, South Africa, in libraries); book illustration (Phiz & Millais)
Posted in 20th century culture, book history, Charles Dickens, conference report, Conferences, library books, museums, politics, Uncategorized, tagged book illustrations, libraries, maori, Millais, Prix Formentor, Prix International on July 24, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Children’s reading club, circa 1910, Children’s Museum, NY or NJ Dear friends and readers, A third instalment of my experience of the Sharp conference last weekend. What unites these sessions is the belief that people form social identities through reading books and magazines and create social networks and capital (Bourdieu’s term) by setting up and [...]
How much our houses can mean: putting away one’s life, what was once close to hand, near to heart
Posted in Autobiographical, cats, Facebook, library books, Samuel Richardson, women's poetry, tagged clarissa, Our house on September 8, 2010 | 10 Comments »
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. — R. L. Stevenson Our house, 1984 (Jim’s mother, me, two daughters): it has not changed all that much Our backyard: you see Izzy’s windows last summer Dear [...]
