Martine van Elk
@martinevanelk.bsky.social
Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
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Early Modern Female Book Ownership
#HerBook
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Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern
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This is very cool! So much still to uncover about Katherine Philips’s connections and her networks - another hugely valuable piece of evidence for scholars to reckon with.
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is very cool! So much still to uncover about Katherine Philips’s connections and her networks - another hugely valuable piece of evidence for scholars to reckon with.
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
Today on the blog: a female owner of Charles I's popular Eikon Basilike, a book cherished by women readers, who used their ownership marks to express their political affiliations during and after the Civil Wars earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Charles I, Eikon Basilike (1648)
It has long been known that the famous Eikon Basilike, attributed to Charles I and published shortly after his execution, was popular with seventeenth-century women readers. So far, our blog has fe…
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October 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today on the blog: a female owner of Charles I's popular Eikon Basilike, a book cherished by women readers, who used their ownership marks to express their political affiliations during and after the Civil Wars earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Great to see Wautier get the exhibit she deserves! #EarlyModern www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/a...
No Woman Could Have Painted This, They Said. They Were Wrong.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Great to see Wautier get the exhibit she deserves! #EarlyModern www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/a...
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📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
📣 We are delighted to announce that the Fall 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.3) has been published online. You can view it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
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CFP: Cavendish and Politics.
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
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Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference | Faculty of Arts | UNB
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September 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
CFP: Cavendish and Politics.
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
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My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂
Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons
Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂
Giving a boost to our Call for Papers for the 2026 Forum on early modern women and migrancy. Deadline October 15!
September 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Giving a boost to our Call for Papers for the 2026 Forum on early modern women and migrancy. Deadline October 15!
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Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1
Of all published articles, the following were the most read.
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September 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern
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Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Thomas Pierce, Philallelia, or, The Grand Characteristick Whereby a Man may be Known to be Christ’s Disciple (1658)
Today’s featured book has three contemporary owners’ signatures crammed onto the upper fifth of its title page, Edward Wilmot and the signature of “Lady Bellamount,” which is bifurcated by the sign…
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Thomas Pierce, Philallelia, or, The Grand Characteristick Whereby a Man may be Known to be Christ’s Disciple (1658)
Today’s featured book has three contemporary owners’ signatures crammed onto the upper fifth of its title page, Edward Wilmot and the signature of “Lady Bellamount,” which is bifurcated by the sign…
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
September 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses several women who may be the Lady Bellamount who signed this book, each one fascinating earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/p... #HerBook #EarlyModern
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Excellent news. The law firm representing authors in the Anthropic/AI-theft class-action suit now has a website that is accepting non-US authors' contact info (as long as their books had a US publisher): www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Please do circulate!
Home | Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC
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September 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Excellent news. The law firm representing authors in the Anthropic/AI-theft class-action suit now has a website that is accepting non-US authors' contact info (as long as their books had a US publisher): www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com Please do circulate!
Vittore Carpaccio The Virgin Reading, c. 1505
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Today, 8 Sept is the feast of the Nativity of Mary
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Today, 8 Sept is the feast of the Nativity of Mary
September 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Holding her little book (a bible I would assume) #HerBook #EarlyModern
Frans Hals,
Portrait of a woman aged sixty, 1633
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Portrait of a woman aged sixty, 1633
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
September 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Holding her little book (a bible I would assume) #HerBook #EarlyModern
Mary with an enormous book #EarlyModern #HerBook
The end & the beginning: Resurrection & Annunciation at the second level of Grünewald's astonishing Isenheim Altarpiece, 1515. Today is his day.
August 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Mary with an enormous book #EarlyModern #HerBook
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Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost.
Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.
#earlymodern
Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.
#earlymodern
Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text
August 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Now that terms and semesters are in full swing, giving this cfp a boost.
Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.
#earlymodern
Speaking as one of the editors, we'd love to consider your work on the topic of "Early Modern Women and Migrancy." Our Forum feature is a great way to try out ideas in a shorter-length format.
#earlymodern
Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org
BASIRA • Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art
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August 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Just discovering this database of books as symbols in Renaissance art--a wonderful resource #EarlyModern #HerBook basiraproject.org
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Although how a 17th century noblewoman shelved her books shouldn't have any bearing on how an individual chooses to arrange their personal library, it IS satisfying to see all the anti-shelving-by-colour snobs have to eat this
Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook
Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676)
Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Although how a 17th century noblewoman shelved her books shouldn't have any bearing on how an individual chooses to arrange their personal library, it IS satisfying to see all the anti-shelving-by-colour snobs have to eat this
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So much to unpack from Joe’s wonderful #HerBook post on Lady Bindloss’s purchase records. As he astutely notes, such records “help situate book ownership within a broader story of the networks and market mechanisms through which books moved from printer to seller to buyer”.
WELL worth the read 👇👇
WELL worth the read 👇👇
Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook
Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676)
Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
So much to unpack from Joe’s wonderful #HerBook post on Lady Bindloss’s purchase records. As he astutely notes, such records “help situate book ownership within a broader story of the networks and market mechanisms through which books moved from printer to seller to buyer”.
WELL worth the read 👇👇
WELL worth the read 👇👇
Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook
Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676)
Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook
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What we are reading in my English lit classes this semester.
INTERLUDE: THE CONDITIONS OF YOUR LEARNING, Part 1
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021), 1-21.
1/2
INTERLUDE: THE CONDITIONS OF YOUR LEARNING, Part 1
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021), 1-21.
1/2
August 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What we are reading in my English lit classes this semester.
INTERLUDE: THE CONDITIONS OF YOUR LEARNING, Part 1
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021), 1-21.
1/2
INTERLUDE: THE CONDITIONS OF YOUR LEARNING, Part 1
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021), 1-21.
1/2
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Nocturnal Scene: Couple Walking behind a Woman with a Lantern, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1655
(Rijksmuseum)
(Rijksmuseum)
August 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nocturnal Scene: Couple Walking behind a Woman with a Lantern, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1655
(Rijksmuseum)
(Rijksmuseum)
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Womanhood: Always a political experience in more ways than one. "...it is possible that she wanted to read more closely about traits that would attract a good suitor and make her a virtuous wife, not just one whose connections and station in life appealed to her future husband." #HerBook
Today on the blog: a fascinating discussion by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on a book on marriage and choosing a wife owned by Elizabeth Cromwell, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Alexander Niccholes, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving (1615)
A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving and of the Greatest Mystery Therein Contained: How to Choose a Good Wife from a Bad was written by Alexander Niccholes, self-identified as a “Batchelour in the Ar…
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Womanhood: Always a political experience in more ways than one. "...it is possible that she wanted to read more closely about traits that would attract a good suitor and make her a virtuous wife, not just one whose connections and station in life appealed to her future husband." #HerBook
Today on the blog: a fascinating discussion by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on a book on marriage and choosing a wife owned by Elizabeth Cromwell, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Alexander Niccholes, A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving (1615)
A Discourse of Marriage and Wiving and of the Greatest Mystery Therein Contained: How to Choose a Good Wife from a Bad was written by Alexander Niccholes, self-identified as a “Batchelour in the Ar…
earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Today on the blog: a fascinating discussion by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social on a book on marriage and choosing a wife owned by Elizabeth Cromwell, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/e... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Lovely and nice that the signature is still so clearly visible even though someone tried to cross it out #EarlyModern
Henry More’s ‘Philosophicall Poems’ (Cambridge, 1647) in a presentation binding & (not currently noted in the catalogue) inscribed by the author to Frances Clifton (prob. the daughter of Sir Gervase & Lady Frances Clifton). Love the error ‘So be gins’. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social LD.43.34. #herbook
July 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Lovely and nice that the signature is still so clearly visible even though someone tried to cross it out #EarlyModern