Molly G. Yarn
@mgyarn.bsky.social
Chronicler of bookwomen (misc.) Currently 17thC women printers. Previously SHAKESPEARE'S 'LADY EDITORS' (CUP). Freelance indexer/editor/researcher. A remarkably Independent Scholar.
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Molly G. Yarn
@mgyarn.bsky.social
· Dec 10
I’m so honored that Shakespeare’s Lady Editors is the co-winner of the 2024 MLA Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars! Please check it out, and enjoy this Uncooperative Cat outtake in celebration.
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The brilliant @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social spreading the word on how issues with the ESTC affect scholarship on women in the book trade.
Digital Bibliography in the Age of Linked Data
| Journal of Early Modern Studies
oajournals.fupress.net
July 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The brilliant @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social spreading the word on how issues with the ESTC affect scholarship on women in the book trade.
Authors, I have availability for indexing jobs until August — get in touch if you’re planning on wrapping up a book this summer!
Hocus Pocus GIF
Alt: Hocus Pocus GIF Bette Midler opening a window and summoning her spell book.
media.tenor.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Authors, I have availability for indexing jobs until August — get in touch if you’re planning on wrapping up a book this summer!
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Here's your reminder to check in early with your press regarding their process and timeline for indexing. If you want someone with subject expertise, start your search for an indexer at least 3 months before you will need to hire them. 1/2
Talking publishing with an author who last published a book five or six years ago can be like talking to Rip Van Winkel—so, so much about the scholarly publishing ecosystem has changed.
May 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here's your reminder to check in early with your press regarding their process and timeline for indexing. If you want someone with subject expertise, start your search for an indexer at least 3 months before you will need to hire them. 1/2
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As others have noted, it’s truly wild to see Terry Doughty write this. He is one of the most extreme MAGA judges appointed in Trump’s first term, author of many wacky, hard-right rulings reversed on appeal. When even he is appalled by an illegal deportation—it’s a sign of something. Wow.
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
As others have noted, it’s truly wild to see Terry Doughty write this. He is one of the most extreme MAGA judges appointed in Trump’s first term, author of many wacky, hard-right rulings reversed on appeal. When even he is appalled by an illegal deportation—it’s a sign of something. Wow.
Actual art about actual US history. No stolen NEH grant money required.
Lest We Forget
An Introduction to "Denise’s Shoes"
open.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Actual art about actual US history. No stolen NEH grant money required.
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They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.
“the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is pleased to announce a special funding opportunity to support the design and creation of statues of important American historical figures for the planned National Garden of American Heroes.” bit.ly/42KlpCz
NEH Announces Grant Opportunity to Create Statues of Iconic Americans for the National Garden of American Heroes
bit.ly
April 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.
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So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
April 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
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Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
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My dad @doomcdoo.bsky.social is channeling his rage into a Substack that applies his professional experience in conflict resolution to the current situation. So I contributed a little something.
No Taxation Without Representation
or, You Can’t Spell “Unitary Executive” Without “Personal Rule”
douglasyarn.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My dad @doomcdoo.bsky.social is channeling his rage into a Substack that applies his professional experience in conflict resolution to the current situation. So I contributed a little something.
My dad @doomcdoo.bsky.social is channeling his rage into a Substack that applies his professional experience in conflict resolution to the current situation. So I contributed a little something.
No Taxation Without Representation
or, You Can’t Spell “Unitary Executive” Without “Personal Rule”
douglasyarn.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My dad @doomcdoo.bsky.social is channeling his rage into a Substack that applies his professional experience in conflict resolution to the current situation. So I contributed a little something.
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i'm excited to share new work on milton's books at RSA & doubly excited to do so alongside @mgyarn.bsky.social & amrita dhar on a panel sponsored by @bibsocamer.bsky.social!
thanks to @aarontpratt.bsky.social for facilitating & @chrisvvarren.bsky.social for chairing.
please join if you're free! 👇
thanks to @aarontpratt.bsky.social for facilitating & @chrisvvarren.bsky.social for chairing.
please join if you're free! 👇
March 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
i'm excited to share new work on milton's books at RSA & doubly excited to do so alongside @mgyarn.bsky.social & amrita dhar on a panel sponsored by @bibsocamer.bsky.social!
thanks to @aarontpratt.bsky.social for facilitating & @chrisvvarren.bsky.social for chairing.
please join if you're free! 👇
thanks to @aarontpratt.bsky.social for facilitating & @chrisvvarren.bsky.social for chairing.
please join if you're free! 👇
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Your periodic reminder that if you plan to hire an indexer and/or proofreader for your academic book, you should be looking for them as soon as you get your production schedule (shortly after turning in your final MS). If your publisher doesn’t tell you when to expect typeset proofs, ask!
So true! I hate having to turn down authors, especially because the books are often so very interesting. If you get on my schedule early, I will do everything I can and more to keep you on it if the timing slips. But once I’m booked, I can’t squeeze in a new project.
#IndexSky
#IndexSky
I regularly have to turn work away and help find an indexer for academics who leave it until they have the pdf ready for indexing. It is much better to line up someone with relevant experience and interests ahead of schedule and negotiate if there's slippage.
January 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Your periodic reminder that if you plan to hire an indexer and/or proofreader for your academic book, you should be looking for them as soon as you get your production schedule (shortly after turning in your final MS). If your publisher doesn’t tell you when to expect typeset proofs, ask!
I wish I could be at MLA to accept my book award, but it’s appropriate, given the category is books by Independent/Contingent Scholars — without institutional support, I can only afford one conference a year. Please cheer loudly if you’re at the ceremony, and I’ll see my SAA/RSA gang in Boston soon!
January 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I wish I could be at MLA to accept my book award, but it’s appropriate, given the category is books by Independent/Contingent Scholars — without institutional support, I can only afford one conference a year. Please cheer loudly if you’re at the ceremony, and I’ll see my SAA/RSA gang in Boston soon!
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Me: Make another Master and Commander movie, you cowards!
Absolutely no one:
Me: Make another Master and Commander movie, you cowards!
a man playing a violin while another man plays a guitar
Alt: Aubrey and Maturin playing their instruments, then a shot of HMS Surprise sailing away
media.tenor.com
January 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Me: Make another Master and Commander movie, you cowards!
Absolutely no one:
Me: Make another Master and Commander movie, you cowards!
I’m so honored that Shakespeare’s Lady Editors is the co-winner of the 2024 MLA Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars! Please check it out, and enjoy this Uncooperative Cat outtake in celebration.
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
December 10, 2024 at 7:12 PM
I’m so honored that Shakespeare’s Lady Editors is the co-winner of the 2024 MLA Prize for Contingent Faculty and Independent Scholars! Please check it out, and enjoy this Uncooperative Cat outtake in celebration.
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
News - Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies - Research at Kent
research.kent.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Exciting PhD Opportunity! Come join @memsunikent.bsky.social for a CHASE-funded collaborative doctoral award with Westminster Abbey to investigate the manuscript fragments held in the Abbey’s Archives. Learn more at the link below, deadline to apply 17 Feb 2025 📜🎉
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
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This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:31 AM
This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.
Hello, new people! Super glad you’re here! I’ll try to catch up on follows, but in the meantime, I just went to Australia, so here’s a picture of me with a kangaroo!
November 10, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Hello, new people! Super glad you’re here! I’ll try to catch up on follows, but in the meantime, I just went to Australia, so here’s a picture of me with a kangaroo!
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Academic authors - did you, during the halcyon days of summer, think, sure, I can index my own book during the school year, and are now experiencing a sinking feeling as reality sets in? If so, I can help! I have openings for index jobs throughout the year.
mollygyarn.com/indexing-and...
mollygyarn.com/indexing-and...
Indexing and Editing — Dr. Molly G. Yarn
mollygyarn.com
August 8, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Academic authors - did you, during the halcyon days of summer, think, sure, I can index my own book during the school year, and are now experiencing a sinking feeling as reality sets in? If so, I can help! I have openings for index jobs throughout the year.
mollygyarn.com/indexing-and...
mollygyarn.com/indexing-and...
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This is highly useful if you work with #earlymodern books of all kinds: a compiled and explained set of contemporary abbreviations. From apothecaries' weights to signs for half moon moments in almanacs. Boost, #bookhistory and #skystorians looking for abbreviations of the past. 🗃️
January 18, 2024 at 7:57 AM
This is highly useful if you work with #earlymodern books of all kinds: a compiled and explained set of contemporary abbreviations. From apothecaries' weights to signs for half moon moments in almanacs. Boost, #bookhistory and #skystorians looking for abbreviations of the past. 🗃️
I’ve read every word of Adam’s book three times (in other words, indexed it) and can promise you that it’s EXCELLENT.
A book, written by me, has been published! I'm excited. Shakespeare Unlearned is now out in the UK, but eager readers all over the world can order it using the discount code below. I'll describe it in the next post. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
October 21, 2024 at 12:54 PM
I’ve read every word of Adam’s book three times (in other words, indexed it) and can promise you that it’s EXCELLENT.
Georgians, please vote early!
October 18, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Georgians, please vote early!
SHAKESPEARE’S LADY EDITORS is now available in paperback! And even more insanely affordable at £23/$30! #bookhistory
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www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
September 26, 2024 at 2:18 PM
SHAKESPEARE’S LADY EDITORS is now available in paperback! And even more insanely affordable at £23/$30! #bookhistory
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
From Eric Rasmussen and myself, new evidence and observations on Shakespeare’s handwriting in Sir Thomas More, out now in PBSA.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Vincent of Lérins’s Commonitorium and Shakespeare’s Hand D in Sir Thomas More | The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America: Vol 118, No 3
Abstract A newly discovered sixteenth-century manuscript leaf of Vincent of Lérins’s Commonitorium manifests a distinctive scribal habit in the formation of cursive h-a previously thought to be unique...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
September 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
From Eric Rasmussen and myself, new evidence and observations on Shakespeare’s handwriting in Sir Thomas More, out now in PBSA.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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NEW: Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible & their lives miserable.
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible & their lives miserable.
Why I Left the Network
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have health insurance. Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made thei...
projects.propublica.org
August 25, 2024 at 11:40 AM
NEW: Why It’s So Hard to Find a Therapist Who Takes Insurance
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible & their lives miserable.
Those who need therapy often have to pay out of pocket or go without care, even if they have insurance.
Hundreds of mental health providers told us they fled networks because insurers made their jobs impossible & their lives miserable.