Esther Kearney
@estherkearney.bsky.social
Early modern researcher completing a PhD on the writer Lucy Hutchinson at the University of Nottingham.
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/the-sculpted-or-the-sculptor-lucy-hutchinsons-the-life-of-john-hutchinson-and-ovids-pygmalion/
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Exciting news - a new portrait of Lucy Hutchinson has surfaced.
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Exciting news - a new portrait of Lucy Hutchinson has surfaced.
This time last week I was one of the speakers at the University of Nottingham's "My Favourite Manuscript" event at Manuscripts and Special Collections. I had so much fun giving a talk on Margaret Cavendish's "The Lotterie," a fascinating manuscript from the Portland Collection! #MargaretCavendish
December 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This time last week I was one of the speakers at the University of Nottingham's "My Favourite Manuscript" event at Manuscripts and Special Collections. I had so much fun giving a talk on Margaret Cavendish's "The Lotterie," a fascinating manuscript from the Portland Collection! #MargaretCavendish
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In Alice's will, made in 1705, she left her wedding ring to her oldest daughter with the stipulation that it should then be passed down the Comber line with other Wandesford family heirlooms. Her younger daughter received her 'wedding bodice and crimson stomacher of flowered satin'. #EarlyModern 🗃️
15th Dec. 1651 #OTD Alice Wandesford married William Thornton. She describes the months of negotiations in what she calls 'tedious' detail in her ‘First Book of My Life’ (Book 1). Her mother wished to see her daughter's inheritance protected during marriage. Spoiler: it wasn't!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
December 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In Alice's will, made in 1705, she left her wedding ring to her oldest daughter with the stipulation that it should then be passed down the Comber line with other Wandesford family heirlooms. Her younger daughter received her 'wedding bodice and crimson stomacher of flowered satin'. #EarlyModern 🗃️
From a wintry walk over Ivinghoe Beacons 🥾
December 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
From a wintry walk over Ivinghoe Beacons 🥾
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15 Dec 1621: Lady Mary Wroth asks Buckingham to recall her Urania because of misunderstandings 'contrary to my purpose' in writing #otd
December 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
15 Dec 1621: Lady Mary Wroth asks Buckingham to recall her Urania because of misunderstandings 'contrary to my purpose' in writing #otd
I just picked up a beautiful edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs from an Oxfam in Berkhamsted 📚
December 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I just picked up a beautiful edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs from an Oxfam in Berkhamsted 📚
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The seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites YOU to our December 4 Zoom seminar with @laradodds.bsky.social and Michelle M. Dowd! They will discuss their new book on early modern women's writing. 5:30pm Eastern. Register here: wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites YOU to our December 4 Zoom seminar with @laradodds.bsky.social and Michelle M. Dowd! They will discuss their new book on early modern women's writing. 5:30pm Eastern. Register here: wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Some more 17th century women readers (Rijksmuseum) By Drost, Rembrandt, Blomaert, Ter Borch.
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Some more 17th century women readers (Rijksmuseum) By Drost, Rembrandt, Blomaert, Ter Borch.