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All EMW and handwriting fans - have a look at new web page in Folgerpedia on calligrapher Esther Inglis: folgerpedia.folger.edu/Esther_Inglis_… Includes new census of her MSS. Folger Shakespeare Library; @SSEMWomen Folger MS V.a.94

DBs' works meet an 'urgent need to understand more about literary activity...across the social spectrum and by more than one gender, and to be more outward-looking in understanding how English writers responded to...neighbouring nations'. Autumn, finally: tinyurl.com/y53v3oad

Watch the Cambridge University film of our Pop-Up World of Languages: youtube.com/watch?v=KLaGUo… We are the Grafton Centre all this week The Grafton Languages are fun and easier than you think! MEITS_OWRI Arts and Humanities Research Council

"We need to acknowledge mountaineering as a profoundly social pursuit…. We need to understand where someone is starting from if we really want to understand what the road to the summit for them is like." Listen to the Alpinist podcast interview with Amrita Dhar here.

Why I spent ten years reading about Du Bartas: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

My release of early modern women with the National Biography is out today. 13 new entries ranging from Anne Herbert [nee Parr] to Jane Hogarth, with noblewomen, merchants, a publisher, travelers, a miniaturist, folk song collectors, vowesses, a poet, and a murderer. Thanks to the authors!

Article based on research I carried out years back for Sharon Achinstein finally out and open access on why Milton's bible quotations are so inaccurate: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mi…

Trivium journal from Chandernagore College ed. Niranjan Goswami. 'Lit. in English from pre-and-post Indep. India, Chldrn's Lit. in English and Bengali, American Lit., Early Modern English and French Lit., and Women's History' and more. First five issues: trivium-journal.in/index.php

Edited by Anne-Pascale Pouey-Mounou (Sorbonne) and Paul Smith (Leiden), “Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe” is the first book-length volume to explore the transnational reception histories of both poets in conjunction with each other ow.ly/2JMA50CfjJP

Congratulations to Dr Mark Wormald and Pembroke College Cambridge Pembroke College Cambridge for this wonderful acquisition recording the friendship of Hughes, Heaney and artist Barrie Cooke. A stunning addition to the College’s Ted Hughes collection. google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…

1. Finally, it feels safe to announce that the latest Mekong Review is out! You may recall that we had trouble printing the magazine in HK last time. Well, that effort has been superseded. Getting this one out was even more difficult. It will take a few tweets to tell the tale.

Super excited about next #EdBibSoc talk: Jamie Reid-Baxter on early modern woman writer, calligrapher & producer of books Esther Inglis. As ever, members get an email with joining details, if not it’s free & all welcome, but please book via Eventbrite eventbrite.co.uk/e/jamie-reid-b…

Spenser Review 51.1 (2021) on 'Spenser’s connections with European writers, the opportunities for international engagement that Spenser undertook, and that his work, in turn, offers': english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/…

Review of Richard Hillman's Shakespearean Comic and Tragicomic in Translation and Literature on the French Malvolio and other new parallels (also find via Bham research portal): doi.org/10.3366/tal.20…

Navigation Spiritualised Chapter 10/32 By Navigation one Place stores another, And by communion we must help each other. John Flavel 1664 Sign up to THE EXPERIENCE OF LONELINESS IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES Conference is now open here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-experien…

Introducing #ArtsMatters, our new series of lunchtime lectures. Each week our researchers discuss their work, sharing the ideas that matter to them - and why these matter to all of us. Watch "Our Haunted Shores", from Jimmy Packham at 1pm on 27th Oct here: youtube.com/watch?v=-85d3G…

In this week's #ArtsMatters lunchtime lecture, Peter Auger argues that we need new translations reflecting a wider range of human experience. Watch "Why do we need feminist translation?" on Wednesday at 1pm here: youtube.com/watch?v=ylL9Q2…

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700, edited by Lizzie Scott-Baumann Sarah C E Ross and me is published in the UK today! global.oup.com/academic/produ… 1/2

Out now: Multilingual Texts and Practices in Early Modern Europe. New work from Alisa van de Haar, @acoldiron1 and others. Thanks to Wendy Bennett, MEITS_OWRI, School of EDACS and Routledge Books (esp. Elysse Preposi) for the support. Table of contents: bitly.ws/zhJt