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.
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
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.
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).
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:
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).