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Amy Solomons
@amyjsolomons.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Oxford working on Reading the Room: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/reading-room-books-access-and-community-heritage-spaces

Interested in women readers, libraries, access to books in the long 18th c.
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A really great few days in Scotland catching up with friends and making new connections.
It was amazing to see my pop up display of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu books at Mount Stuart. I also gave the Dr Johanna Green lecture on reading in historic house libraries: echo360.org.uk/media/799fd2...
Image of a book case filled with 8 eighteenth-century books. 3 have just the spine displayed. 5 are open to show inscriptions in the hand of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
April 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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First day back at my desk after #BSECS2025 last week. Had a great time sharing the first snippets of research into Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's now dispersed collection of 250+ books.
Image of a PowerPoint slide given at BSECS conference. The background features a finger pointing at Lady Mary's signature 'Ma' and annotation 'Common place' on the flyleaves of a book. Text reads 'Reconstructing Dispersed Collections. The Library of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu'
January 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM