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Marie Léger-St-Jean
@marielsj.bsky.social
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❤️ editing texts 🎤 💃 Montréalaise in Nijmegen, Nederland

Dissertation doula • accompagnante au dépôt de thèse • hulp bij het afronden van je proefschrift

Book history • histoire du livre • boekgeschiedenis
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Started playing around today with LERA, a collation tool developed at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. It's very promising!

Thanks to @poeckelmann.bsky.social for setting up the instance so quickly!

lera.uzi.uni-halle.de

#DH #TextualScholarship #BookHistory #ScholarlyEditing
"Highlighting of text variants: The working environment determines the differences between two matched segments and highlights them using the following color scheme: green for insertions, blue for substitutions and red for deletions. Additionally, the corresponding text sections in the remaining versions are being highlighted in grey. Through the use of a variety of filter- and color-settings, the user can tailor the text comparison to his own liking, e.g. hiding all changes that purely concern punctuation." https://lera.uzi.uni-halle.de/
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
I did have more of a chance to browse Utrecht's book stores this summer after my Dutch-language state exams 😃

This is Paper Moon...
October 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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I sadly didn't have much time this time in Utrecht: needed to get back to Nijmegen for my neighbour's PhD defense... But Sophie did invite me for lunch at Bakkerswinkel, which I realized @renskehoff.bsky.social had previously brought me to!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
We're closing #ESPRit2025 by celebrating the 2024 ESPRit Prize: *The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals* (2023) ed. by Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck & Birgit van Puymbroeck @edinburghup.bsky.social

The committee was unanimous in their decision, calling it a “genuine tour de force”
*The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals* (2023), edited by Marysa Demoor, Cedric Van Dijck, and Birgit van Puymbroeck, @edinburghup.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
Just arrived at #ESPRit2025 after a hard night at the hostel...

It's my first conference in Southern Europe, so I'm not used to these types of campuses! Stunning!
Mountains at a distance... Lots of trees/shrubs a sort of courtyard between buildings...
September 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
marielsj.bsky.social
I just love the masthead for this 1895-1897 quarterly magazine out of Boston...

#RSVP2025
TO BE ISSUED QUARTERLY. EXPRESSION VOICE BODY MIND ART LITERATURE THE SPOKEN WORD CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1895. [...] VOL. I Copyright, 1895, The School of Expression. All rights reserved. Entered at the Post Office in Boston as second-class matter. NO. 1. EDITED BY S. S. CURRY, PhD., AND OTHER TEACHERS. PUBLISHED BY THE SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION, 458 Boylston St., Boston. One Dollar a Year. Twenty-five Cents a Number. Source: @hathitrust.bsky.social‬ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000054450923&seq=11
July 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
I can't quite read the masthead on this one, I think it might be *The People's Periodical* n° 18.

#RSVP2025
*The People's Periodical and family library.* Edited by E. Lloyd. No. [18?] Vol. I. For the week ending [?]. Price One Penny Portraits of Johanna Oakley and Mark Ingestrie. Source: "Sweeney Todd", *EDWARD LLOYD: Victorian newspaper proprietor, publisher and entrepreneur* https://edwardlloyd.org/todd.php
July 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
Ninth installment of "The String of Pearls", I think... Certainly *The People's Periodical* n° 15.

#RSVP2025 #pennybloods
*The People's Periodical and family library.* Edited by E. Lloyd. No. 15. Vol. I. For the week ending January 16, 1847. Price One Penny "The String of Pearls. A romance." (Continued from our last.) Source: John Adcock, "Sweeney Todd Gallery", *Yesterday's Papers*, 21 September 2010 https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2010/09/sweeney-todd-gallery.html
July 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
In contrast to what was said in the Q&A, *The People's Periodical and family library* was illustrated.

Here are illustrations I found online.

First installment of "The String of Pearls", n° 7

Source: @wikicommons.bsky.social

#RSVP2025 #pennybloods
*The People's Periodical and family library.* Edited by E. Lloyd. No. 7 Vol. I. For the week ending November 21, 1846. Price One Penny "The String of Pearls. A romance." Chapter I. The Strange Customer at Sweeney Todd's. Source: @wikicommons.bsky.social‬ https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/The-People%27s-Periodical.jpg
July 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
a nice interpretational nugget in the Q&A!

The protagonist is a clerk who has just lost his job. Wondering why the beetle appears to him as an old man instead of a hot woman (as it did in other cases), Andrew posits that what he wanted most that anything at that point was...

a boss.

#RSVP2025
[illustration of the beetle appearing as an old man to Holt] "For when it said 'Keep still!' I kept still. Vide Page 17." Illustration by John Williamson for *The Beetle: A Mystery* (Skeffington & Son, London, 1897) by Richard Marsh, a pseudonym for Richard Bernard Heldmann (1857-1915) Source: @wikicommons.bsky.social‬ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_by_John_Williamson_for_The_Beetle-_A_Mystery_by_Richard_Marsh-Page_017.jpg
July 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
Senora Blanco is talking about how pieces in *Household Words* informed Wilkie Collins's representation of female madness and spectrality in *The Woman in White*.

I find this quotation from Emily Jolly's *A Wife's Story*, serialized 1-22 September 1855, very poignant...

#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
"For a long time they thought me dying, thought my brain was dead already." Emily Jolly, "A Wife's Story", *Household Words*, 1-22 September 1855 (weekly), p. 181. Source: Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=zm9E4g1lkBkC&pg=PA181&dq=%22they+thought+me+dying,+thought+my+brain+was+dead+already%22
July 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
The first section of Klaudia Lee's talk proposes to view periodicals as infrastructure. Yes!

I missed the first reference for cultural infrastructure, but the second was Lauren Berlant's *On the Inconvenience of Other People*

The mediation of infrastructure reveals unstable connections.

#RSVP2025
Laren Berlant, *On the Inconvenience of Other People*, @dukepress.bsky.social‬ Source: https://dukeupress.edu/on-the-inconvenience-of-other-people
July 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
Looking forward to seeing my @rs4vp.bsky.social peeps at #RSVP25 in Chicago in July!

I'll be talking about electoral cartograms, those "maps" that visualize election results w/ each constituency being the same size.

Thought it was a 21c #dataviz invention, but no! Turns up in Victorian newspapers!
Ross-of-Bladensburg, John Foster George. ‘The “Simplex” Chart of Parliamentary Constituencies, 1895’. *The Times* (London), 11 July 1895, p. 4. This 1895 electoral cartogram shows each constituency in the United Kingdom (which at the time included Ireland) as a square. Each square contains the name of the constituency and its population according to the 1891 census. The squares are grouped by administrative county. Further symbols within the squares distinguish between parliamentary county divisions, boroughs, metropolitan boroughs, and university seats. Subscribers are invited to colour in each square once the results of the election are known. A legend at the top allows subscribers to indicate the colour used to represent the seats of each political party or coalition: Conservatives, Liberal Unionists, "Separatists", "Parnellites", and "Anti-Parnellites". The chart was compiled by Major Ross-of-Bladensburg and published as a free-standing sheet by Messrs. George Philip and Son since the previous election in 1892. The publishers also supply boxes of "gummed paper" and coloured crayons to visualize the results. Image taken from @peter-yeung.bsky.social ‘1801 Newsletter: Special Times Archive Edition’. *Medium* (blog), 23 April 2018. https://medium.com/@peteryeung/1801-newsletter-special-times-archive-edition-ab43472e9784.
December 6, 2024 at 1:32 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
Cordonnier mal chaussé?
Capture d'écran du site Web de Réviseurs Canada avec des rubriques intitulées «À propos» et «Notre sections [au pluriel]».
February 14, 2024 at 5:16 PM
marielsj.bsky.social
Ok, let's give this a try...

Hello Blue Sky peeps!

I'm thrilled to be in Antwerpen and reunited with my SHARP Friday Canadian friend @mcegillion.bsky.social!

She's giving a talk at the launch of the Plantin Press Online at the Plantin-Moretus Museum 💪

museumplantinmoretus.be/en/activity/...
@mcegillion.bsky.social @marielsj.bsky.social with Christophe Plantin (1520-1589) in the background
February 5, 2024 at 1:28 PM