Sara Catterall
@scatterall.bsky.social
Writer. MLIS. So many interests. She/her. Author of Amelia Bloomer: Journalist, Suffragist, Anti-Fashion Icon, out now from Belt Publishing. She truly did not want to be remembered for "bloomers." Blog etc at saracatterall.com
Out here building community with UU newcomer brunch. Much coffee, and a vegan option.
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Out here building community with UU newcomer brunch. Much coffee, and a vegan option.
Also? That illustration looks like a pair of 19th c crotchless drawers. This is a "Bloomer dress":
October 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Also? That illustration looks like a pair of 19th c crotchless drawers. This is a "Bloomer dress":
Beautiful chilly morning. Got some late planting done, scuffled up the colorful leaves from the wet clay soil, saw little insects that survived the frosts, listened to the bluejays, crows, and a red squirrel in the pines.
October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Beautiful chilly morning. Got some late planting done, scuffled up the colorful leaves from the wet clay soil, saw little insects that survived the frosts, listened to the bluejays, crows, and a red squirrel in the pines.
Fantasy arts event space of the morning (near where I had my book event Sunday). www.realtor.com/realestatean...
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Fantasy arts event space of the morning (near where I had my book event Sunday). www.realtor.com/realestatean...
Yesterday I did a book event at the Opendore house at the Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood NY, for a knowledgeable and lively audience of about 20. Great discussion afterwards! I'll have to go back, there's some treasure in their archive, including a gorgeous suffrage poster collection.
October 6, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Yesterday I did a book event at the Opendore house at the Howland Stone Store Museum in Sherwood NY, for a knowledgeable and lively audience of about 20. Great discussion afterwards! I'll have to go back, there's some treasure in their archive, including a gorgeous suffrage poster collection.
1970. In the f'ing Style section.
September 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
1970. In the f'ing Style section.
Sorting through ancestors. This is my great grandmother Helene who got on a boat from Norway by herself when she was 19.
September 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Sorting through ancestors. This is my great grandmother Helene who got on a boat from Norway by herself when she was 19.
A friend spotted my book in her public library! I will never get over the thrill of seeing Bloomer as a library book.
September 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A friend spotted my book in her public library! I will never get over the thrill of seeing Bloomer as a library book.
Oh! Excellent book mail! I've been waiting for this one for years
August 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Oh! Excellent book mail! I've been waiting for this one for years
...She wore "bloomers" to climb Mount Blanc in 1838, thirteen years before Elizabeth Smith Miller put them on and Bloomer went viral for promoting them.
July 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
...She wore "bloomers" to climb Mount Blanc in 1838, thirteen years before Elizabeth Smith Miller put them on and Bloomer went viral for promoting them.
Hello, it's the anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, and if you believe it was "the first" or "the start of the movement" I recommend this book: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
July 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Hello, it's the anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, and if you believe it was "the first" or "the start of the movement" I recommend this book: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
What the birds and chipmunks didn't get.
July 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
What the birds and chipmunks didn't get.
This issue kind of changed my Shakespeare and Dickens obsessed life at the time.
July 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This issue kind of changed my Shakespeare and Dickens obsessed life at the time.
Did I read the Calvino before I bought this, or after?
July 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Did I read the Calvino before I bought this, or after?
Looking for something to read in the woods, ran into my college love.
July 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Looking for something to read in the woods, ran into my college love.
My linden tree is blooming, and full of bees. You can smell it inside the house. I picked a bowl of flowers to dry for tea.
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My linden tree is blooming, and full of bees. You can smell it inside the house. I picked a bowl of flowers to dry for tea.
Gen Z spent their day off doing laundry and pottering around and baked a carrot cake just because.
June 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Gen Z spent their day off doing laundry and pottering around and baked a carrot cake just because.
Happy Spring! Here's some flowers from Tivoli in Copenhagen for you all. #FlowerReport
April 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Happy Spring! Here's some flowers from Tivoli in Copenhagen for you all. #FlowerReport
Amelia Bloomer, not wearing visible underwear
April 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Amelia Bloomer, not wearing visible underwear
Nearby is Dr. Livingstone. With a seagull.
April 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Nearby is Dr. Livingstone. With a seagull.
Leaving Edinburgh this morning, I ran into one of the largest memorials to a writer in the world. A novelist, even, Walter Scott. Look upon it and despair
April 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Leaving Edinburgh this morning, I ran into one of the largest memorials to a writer in the world. A novelist, even, Walter Scott. Look upon it and despair