Heather Heckman-McKenna
@drhhm.bsky.social
PhD 2023, long (long, long) 18th centuryist, memoirist, digital humanist, sensibility studies, Associate Editor for The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, baby book historian, new mama (tired; so very tired), and CATS. All of the cats.
In case you wondering, “A Turd is as good for a sow as a pancake”
#amresearching #18thcentury #acawriting #literature
#amresearching #18thcentury #acawriting #literature
January 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM
In case you wondering, “A Turd is as good for a sow as a pancake”
#amresearching #18thcentury #acawriting #literature
#amresearching #18thcentury #acawriting #literature
There are many reasons I love being a parent, not the least of which is that I can buy dinosaur bookshelves and no one looks askance at me.
January 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
There are many reasons I love being a parent, not the least of which is that I can buy dinosaur bookshelves and no one looks askance at me.
I mean, it's an excellent sheep.
to this sheep: ewe are enough
As a bonus, the museum includes THE WORST SHEEP (I love it so much!) which is also the worst artwork I’ve ever seen made and sold by a professional historic artist, which I keep a picture of near my desk as a reminder that sometimes mediocre is, in fact, good enough. 7/?
January 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I mean, it's an excellent sheep.
Today's post is a transcribed page from Katherine Ross's 17th-century spiritual autobiography. I study sensibility, and on this page Ross uses faints and longings, fights troubles and afflictions.
#diary #herstory #history #18thcentury #archives #NLS #scottishhistory #nonconformist
#diary #herstory #history #18thcentury #archives #NLS #scottishhistory #nonconformist
January 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Today's post is a transcribed page from Katherine Ross's 17th-century spiritual autobiography. I study sensibility, and on this page Ross uses faints and longings, fights troubles and afflictions.
#diary #herstory #history #18thcentury #archives #NLS #scottishhistory #nonconformist
#diary #herstory #history #18thcentury #archives #NLS #scottishhistory #nonconformist
Talk coming up at 10 am GMT on Friday!
1st post on the new platform! On 1/24, I'm giving an online roundtable talk on my essay in the Queer Utilitarianism special issue of "Revue d'études benthamiennes." I doubt many of my colleagues can attend given that it's being held in France at 10 am. Nevertheless: www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/...
Queer Utilitarianism
Centre Bentham round table conference
www.sciencespo.fr
January 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Talk coming up at 10 am GMT on Friday!
Reposted by Heather Heckman-McKenna
When you learn how to spell “Houyhnhnm” without peeking, they give you a PhD in eighteenth-century studies.
November 18, 2024 at 2:40 PM
When you learn how to spell “Houyhnhnm” without peeking, they give you a PhD in eighteenth-century studies.
Today's treasure is a page from a small diary written in 1779 by Anne, Lady Stuart. There are lots of decisions to make when transcribing manuscripts, including how best to handle crossed-out words, how to interpret punctuation, how best to separate sections or paragraphs. Lots and lots of decisions
January 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Today's treasure is a page from a small diary written in 1779 by Anne, Lady Stuart. There are lots of decisions to make when transcribing manuscripts, including how best to handle crossed-out words, how to interpret punctuation, how best to separate sections or paragraphs. Lots and lots of decisions
Gorgeous morning maunawili view from the top of our hill.
January 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Gorgeous morning maunawili view from the top of our hill.
I don’t know how I made this beautiful creature, but I’m sure glad I did.
January 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I don’t know how I made this beautiful creature, but I’m sure glad I did.
Reposted by Heather Heckman-McKenna
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏
Oh Oxford, how I miss you in the autumn (and your amazing repositories of diaries).
January 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Oh Oxford, how I miss you in the autumn (and your amazing repositories of diaries).
Oofah
January 16, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oofah
Today's post is from Anna Purefoy Jervoise's diary. Imagine: I'm sitting in the Weston library just a few days before what would be the 3rd anniversary of my father's death. I'm sitting in the very town he took me to in which I realized I needed to go back to grad school. I open the book to this:
January 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Today's post is from Anna Purefoy Jervoise's diary. Imagine: I'm sitting in the Weston library just a few days before what would be the 3rd anniversary of my father's death. I'm sitting in the very town he took me to in which I realized I needed to go back to grad school. I open the book to this:
Reposted by Heather Heckman-McKenna
Nothing to see here, dear #skystorians, except a human skeleton (with a hat and a feather) riding a #unicorn skeleton that is positioned next to two other animal skeletons (of a bear? and a deer?).
Did I mention yet that the 4 skeletons are standing in an #earlymodern library? #LibraryHistory
Did I mention yet that the 4 skeletons are standing in an #earlymodern library? #LibraryHistory
January 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Nothing to see here, dear #skystorians, except a human skeleton (with a hat and a feather) riding a #unicorn skeleton that is positioned next to two other animal skeletons (of a bear? and a deer?).
Did I mention yet that the 4 skeletons are standing in an #earlymodern library? #LibraryHistory
Did I mention yet that the 4 skeletons are standing in an #earlymodern library? #LibraryHistory
While I haven't been able to do much with them yet, my 2021 research trip to the BL, Bodleian, and NLS led me to some absolutely fabulous women's diaries. Here's one page, courtesy of Lady Georgiana North in 1804 (Bodleian Mss. North adds. e. 8).
January 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
While I haven't been able to do much with them yet, my 2021 research trip to the BL, Bodleian, and NLS led me to some absolutely fabulous women's diaries. Here's one page, courtesy of Lady Georgiana North in 1804 (Bodleian Mss. North adds. e. 8).
1st post on the new platform! On 1/24, I'm giving an online roundtable talk on my essay in the Queer Utilitarianism special issue of "Revue d'études benthamiennes." I doubt many of my colleagues can attend given that it's being held in France at 10 am. Nevertheless: www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/...
Queer Utilitarianism
Centre Bentham round table conference
www.sciencespo.fr
January 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
1st post on the new platform! On 1/24, I'm giving an online roundtable talk on my essay in the Queer Utilitarianism special issue of "Revue d'études benthamiennes." I doubt many of my colleagues can attend given that it's being held in France at 10 am. Nevertheless: www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/...