A ‘heller’ is a bitterly cold day. Here’s a piece about how the old dictionaries serve us well when it comes to winter. inews.co.uk/opinion/from-h…

And, finally, another memorial, this time to the Reverend Michael Siddal

Congratulations to Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille for the first monograph on Lucy Hutchinson, and the first study to approach the Memoirs not only through history but through form, analyzing for the first time the complex digressive structure. A milestone!

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Word of the day is ‘pertolerate’ (17th century): to endure steadfastly to the end.

As a keen artist herself, Elizabeth Anson reflects on how much she would rather be drawing than sitting: "...I have nothing to do here [in London] but to sit for my Picture, & that is not near so amusing as drawing one." [To Catherine Talbot, 3rd July 1750]

Alice Thornton's Books Cordelia Beattie i don’t know the answer to this, unfortunately. but i’d like to! the MS instances are lovely. the closest thing i can think of in print is the use of ♥️ in a rebus such as this mid-17c example:

Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century: the desire to be away from other people.

A wonderful diary at Winchester College, recording that the smoke from the Great Fire of London could be seen as far away as Oxford

Look out for Cordelia Beattie's blog today blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…

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The news is out. You can read all about my discoveries on the never-before-seen pages of the first history of Elizabeth I here: theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…