Early Modern Women's Marginalia blog
More than Marginal Interest in Mary Astell’s Book Collection: Part I: Belated Objections
In early 2021, Magdalene College Cambridge librarian Catherine Sutherland discovered a collection of books belonging to early modern philosopher Mary Astell (1666-1731), hiding in plain sight in the College’s Old Library. The collection, which initially...
‘Margaret Barnard my god my god’
On the rear flyleaves of British Library 3052.cc.9—a copy of Tomson's Geneva Bible—is written (in distinctive handwriting) an earnest prayer-poem by a woman named Margaret Barnard: Note: some of the marginalia is indecipherable to me at this stage - any missing...
The Zodiake of Mary Powntis
Douce P 584, The zodiake of life Douce P 584 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, contains The zodiake of life, a translation from the original Latin of Marcello Palingenio Stellato. The text is divided into twelve books for the twelve signs of the zodiac. Each offers...
A Fortune in the Margins
The margins and end papers of this illustrated folio volume in the Bodleian library, printed between 1677 and 1685, contain many signs of use, including the signatures of more than one woman reader…
Welcome to the Early Modern Women’s Marginalia blog
Welcome to the blog for Marginalia and the Early Modern Women Writer (1530-1660), an Australian Research Council-funded Future Fellowship project (FT180100371) led by Professor Rosalind Smith at the Australian National University. This four-year project investigates...
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