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How to Find Marginalia in Printed Books (so that you can request photos through BookMark!)
…or rather How to Find the Possibility of Marginalia in Printed Books to Which You Do Not Have Access! If you don’t happen to live or work in the region of a rare books repository, you may be able to get leads about the existence and sometimes nature of marginalia from library catalogues. First, we…
An Interview with Dr. Anne M. Thell
Anne M. Thell is an Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore. Her books include Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature (2017; 2020) and the Broadview edition of Margaret Cavendish’s Grounds of Natural Philosophy (2020). Her interests include the history of aesthetics; the history of science and philosophy; early prose fiction; and…
The Newberry Library: An Introduction to Rare Books and Special Collections
Hello all, for those of you who don’t know me, my name is Blaze Welling, and I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Waterloo in the English Language and Literature department. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Dr. Acheson on the Early Modern Marginalia Research Network (EMMRN) project for almost a…