Elise Watson
@ewatson.bsky.social
Historian ☞ @britishacademy.bsky.social postdoc @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on female collaboration in the first age of print ☞ #earlymodern gender, books, religion, DH, queer stuff ☞ she/her 🌈
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Elise Watson
@ewatson.bsky.social
· Jan 15
Gender and the Book Trades
"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
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Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)
Vol. 14 (2025): The Politics of Book History: Then and Now
| Journal of Early Modern Studies
oajournals.fupress.net
July 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)
Ledger stone of Antwerp almanac publisher Godtgaf Verhulst in Our Lady Cathedral, Antwerp, with his first, second AND third wives. Pretty crowded 😬
July 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Ledger stone of Antwerp almanac publisher Godtgaf Verhulst in Our Lady Cathedral, Antwerp, with his first, second AND third wives. Pretty crowded 😬
Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)
June 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Yet another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: In 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt repeatedly sent his daughter Janne to buy books from Plantin in Antwerp and settle his accounts (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch. 60 f. 2)
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In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory
May 6, 2025 at 7:30 AM
In many histories of early modern printing houses, women play a secondary role. Heleen Wyffels questions this narrative and asks instead: what happens when we read the stories that printers themselves told about their family businesses? Read her article for free: doi.org/10.51750/eml... #bookhistory
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How did economic transformations alter women’s work and vice versa? Ariadne Schmidt examines developments in the historiography on women’s work and pleads for a diversified approach to better understand the interplay between gender relations and the economy. doi.org/10.51750/eml...
May 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
How did economic transformations alter women’s work and vice versa? Ariadne Schmidt examines developments in the historiography on women’s work and pleads for a diversified approach to better understand the interplay between gender relations and the economy. doi.org/10.51750/eml...
I'm working on a chapter about fictitious women in early modern paratexts and here's something I thought I'd never see: the widow of Susanna Soldaten-crans bravely carrying on her late wife's business in 1662? I love false imprints (USTC 1844238)
April 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I'm working on a chapter about fictitious women in early modern paratexts and here's something I thought I'd never see: the widow of Susanna Soldaten-crans bravely carrying on her late wife's business in 1662? I love false imprints (USTC 1844238)
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I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips
April 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I see a lot of you are worried about your stocks so I’m glad I invested all my money in the one asset that will NEVER decline in value: tulips
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#WomensHistoryMonth
women reading/reading women:
- earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com #HerBook
- earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au
- www.emwmlibrary.com
- franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com
- recirc.universityofgalway.ie
women reading/reading women:
- earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com #HerBook
- earlymodernwomensmarginalia.cems.anu.edu.au
- www.emwmlibrary.com
- franceswolfrestonhorbouks.com
- recirc.universityofgalway.ie
Early Modern Female Book Ownership
#HerBook
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Intriguing example of #HerBook!
This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture.
(Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!)
#earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚
This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture.
(Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!)
#earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚
February 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Intriguing example of #HerBook!
This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture.
(Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!)
#earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚
This 18th-century Jewish prayer book came into the possession of Hanna Katz, daughter of Zelig Katz, in 1777, as made clear from the inscription in the center piece furniture.
(Thanks to Theo Dunkelgrün for the translation!)
#earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 📜💙📚
Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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On display at The National Archives (UK) this month (Feb 2025), a set of letters allegedly written by the Chevalier d'Eon and brought into court as part of King's Bench proceedings in November 1776. I wrote a short piece about the letters here. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
The libellous letters of the Chevalier d’Eon
Pre-trial statements from this 1776 dispute between the Chevalier d’Eon and Charles de Morande provide intricate details about these two French spies.
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
February 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
On display at The National Archives (UK) this month (Feb 2025), a set of letters allegedly written by the Chevalier d'Eon and brought into court as part of King's Bench proceedings in November 1776. I wrote a short piece about the letters here. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
‘I need a citation like St Anthony needed beast repellent‘ is a line I fully intend to steal for future evaluations
‘It is not in wordplay, in hazelnuts and hazelnots, though theology has tangled itself so much in those things. The wound of experience is presented, open; it does not need to be probed, it is believed.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on the mystics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on the mystics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patricia Lockwood · That Shape Am I: Among the Mystics
Doubt is the dimension of the religious experience that brings it into reality, gives it that voluptuousness which...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
‘I need a citation like St Anthony needed beast repellent‘ is a line I fully intend to steal for future evaluations
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i will never let men off the hook for making misogynist art because david lynch, an old cornpone white guy from montana, was able to make one of the only television shows that took violence against women seriously and, in fact, framed child sexual abuse as a legitimately apocalpytic evil
just logged into this site for the first time in weeks (i just finished my novel and had told myself i wouldn't look until i was done) and jesus christ what a thing to come back to
January 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
i will never let men off the hook for making misogynist art because david lynch, an old cornpone white guy from montana, was able to make one of the only television shows that took violence against women seriously and, in fact, framed child sexual abuse as a legitimately apocalpytic evil
RIP David Lynch :( the best ever to do it
January 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
RIP David Lynch :( the best ever to do it
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Delighted to have a piece in this on the gendered posthumous legacy of printer-poet Constantia Grierson
It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
Gender and the Book Trades
"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Delighted to have a piece in this on the gendered posthumous legacy of printer-poet Constantia Grierson
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New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...
December 4, 2024 at 8:27 PM
New chapter: About women in the printing workshops in colonial Peru. Out soon in the "Gender and the Book Trades" volume. brill.com/edcollchap/b...
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First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre
"Chapter 13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre" published on 18 Nov 2024 by Brill.
doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:36 PM
First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
doi.org/10.1163/9789...
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Much hard work from the inimitably brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social and Jessica Farrell-Jobst sees 'Gender and the Book Trades' now in print. An amazing collection, it includes my first paper on QB expanded as 'Affective Bibliography: Three Queer Approaches to Print'.
brill.com/edcollchap/b...
brill.com/edcollchap/b...
brill.com
January 15, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Much hard work from the inimitably brilliant @ewatson.bsky.social and Jessica Farrell-Jobst sees 'Gender and the Book Trades' now in print. An amazing collection, it includes my first paper on QB expanded as 'Affective Bibliography: Three Queer Approaches to Print'.
brill.com/edcollchap/b...
brill.com/edcollchap/b...
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It is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades. My section is particularly fab (@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social @kandicedarcia.bsky.social). I'm able to send PDFs of our chapter by request! Please let me know if you need access.
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
January 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades. My section is particularly fab (@malcolmjnoble.bsky.social @kandicedarcia.bsky.social). I'm able to send PDFs of our chapter by request! Please let me know if you need access.
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
brill.com/edcollbook/t...
It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
Gender and the Book Trades
"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
January 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
Had the most magical week pre-holidays at the #NewberryLibrary: huge thanks to @noraepstein.bsky.social @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social and all the staff for such a warm welcome! Check out that double volvelle 👀 (Newberry Wing ZP 646 .R57 & Case NE 1070 .S33 1648)
December 31, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Had the most magical week pre-holidays at the #NewberryLibrary: huge thanks to @noraepstein.bsky.social @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social and all the staff for such a warm welcome! Check out that double volvelle 👀 (Newberry Wing ZP 646 .R57 & Case NE 1070 .S33 1648)
Trying to get any work done the Friday before Christmas (Het Wonder Leven van de H. Rosa de S. Maria van Lima, 1678, USTC 1537320)
December 20, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Trying to get any work done the Friday before Christmas (Het Wonder Leven van de H. Rosa de S. Maria van Lima, 1678, USTC 1537320)
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Women and the booktrade. Elisabeth van Biesen de Haes is found in this impressum under her own name as 'Printer [drukster] of the noble court of Guelders' #bookhistory
November 15, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Women and the booktrade. Elisabeth van Biesen de Haes is found in this impressum under her own name as 'Printer [drukster] of the noble court of Guelders' #bookhistory
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Impressed by Plantin offers the prints of 14,000 woodblocks, freely available for creative reuse.
museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...
museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...
Impressed by Plantin | Museum Plantin-Moretus
The Plantin-Moretus Museum keeps an extraordinary collection of 14,000 woodblocks. 14,000 examples of true craftsmanship, drawings masterly cut in wood. We are supplying this impressive collection of ...
museumplantinmoretus.be
November 13, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Impressed by Plantin offers the prints of 14,000 woodblocks, freely available for creative reuse.
museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...
museumplantinmoretus.be/en/impressed...
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Susanna Verbruggen († 1752) was een geestelijke maagd (#klopje of #kwezel) en lid van het Lucas gilde in Antwerpen vanaf 1710 💃
Ze drukte #devotieprenten en kocht in 1727 zo’n 400 pond koperplaten, 2000 à 3000 stuks 💫
Daarbij gravures van Theodoor Galle, die ze voorzag van haar naam ✍️ #nuntastic
Ze drukte #devotieprenten en kocht in 1727 zo’n 400 pond koperplaten, 2000 à 3000 stuks 💫
Daarbij gravures van Theodoor Galle, die ze voorzag van haar naam ✍️ #nuntastic
November 18, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Susanna Verbruggen († 1752) was een geestelijke maagd (#klopje of #kwezel) en lid van het Lucas gilde in Antwerpen vanaf 1710 💃
Ze drukte #devotieprenten en kocht in 1727 zo’n 400 pond koperplaten, 2000 à 3000 stuks 💫
Daarbij gravures van Theodoor Galle, die ze voorzag van haar naam ✍️ #nuntastic
Ze drukte #devotieprenten en kocht in 1727 zo’n 400 pond koperplaten, 2000 à 3000 stuks 💫
Daarbij gravures van Theodoor Galle, die ze voorzag van haar naam ✍️ #nuntastic