Transnational Women Writers in the Wilmot Coterie, 1798-1840 Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in the late eighteenth century.

My book is on sale! It is a beautiful thing to hold in your hands.

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The new episode of the podcast @thecarryingstream.bsky.social, hosted by IASSL member @paulmalgrati.bsky.social @insuhi.bsky.social, interviews poet and scholar Robert Crawford. Available on all podcast platforms.

For late bloomers everywhere: Mary Delany (1700-1788) began her celebrated 'paper mosaicks' at the age of 72. Pictured: Myosotis Scorpiodes (Forget-me-not).

A post on Mary Delany's life before she went to London after the death of her husband, Dr Delany, as part of the literary circle around Swift.

Swift's female senate: irishphilosophy.com/2019/04/07/t...

For late bloomers everywhere: Mary Delany (1700-1788) began her celebrated 'paper mosaicks' at the age of 72. Pictured: Myosotis Scorpiodes (Forget-me-not).

Two hands hold an open book with printed and handwritten text, accompanied by a promotional banner from The Bibliographical Society of America. Transcribed Text: Left Page: THE HIGH TREASVRE... (text continues further down) Imprinted at London, for Gabriell Simson and William White. Right Page: I hate not, having a real note book, but when you order one you, note write... Banner Text: We Need More Bibliographers

The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.

#TalkAboutHumanities

Snake's head Fritillary, Iberis, Honesty, Shandy Hall gardens

Thank you – that is very kind!

Corrections to 2nd proof of The Letters of William Godwin, Volume IV (618 pages before indexing), now completed and awaiting collection by OUP van man. Have been working on them since 16 January... Thanks to all those watching and waiting. #TheLongestJourney

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Sunshine and showers

12th April 2026 18.55

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Great blue heron !

Some serenity for today - great blue heron

#OTD 7 April 1836: death of #WilliamGodwin, author of Political Justice, Caleb Williams, & many other works speaking truth to power; head of one of Britain's leading literary families; writer of 1500 astonishing letters – Vol. IV: 1816-1828 due out from OUP this year.
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Gender, Science and Sociability in the Diary of Jane Ewbank of York (1778-1824) is published today with Boydell and Brewer! 35% off if you use the code BB135. Book link in comments ws.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @bshsnews.bsky.social

Godwin was an early influence on Daniel O'Connell

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Yes indeed, thank you - also this from William Henry Curran to Godwin, much later: 'I don’t know whether you set any value upon Mr OConnell’s judgement in these things. He says every where, that you have prostrated Malthus' (8 Mar. 1821). The reference is to Godwin's Of Population (1820).

#OTD 7 April 1836: death of #WilliamGodwin, author of Political Justice, Caleb Williams, & many other works speaking truth to power; head of one of Britain's leading literary families; writer of 1500 astonishing letters – Vol. IV: 1816-1828 due out from OUP this year.
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Thank you! Yes, I know it, but could never sing it, so am glad you did. Some things never age.

La chronique « poches révolutionnaires » de François Angelier : Olivier Ritz, Michel Biard et Philippe Bourdin, Roger Duchêne CHRONIQUE. Le journal des lectures en poche du journaliste.

François Angelier a lu Une histoire littéraire de la Révolution française pour @lemonde.fr !

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On an overcast and breezy afternoon the first Pasqueflowers of the year were unfurling at Barnack Hills and Holes NNR, their purple petals backed with soft silvery hairs, the blooms emerging from a finely dissected, downy, purplish-green ruff.

#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Green, tree-lined country lane

Terraced cottages, road junction and fingerpost

Thatched cottages

Church with low steeple in lawned churchyard

1/ We discovered Good Easter walking the Essex Way. En route to the village and its church of St Andrew.

Wishing you a #HappyEaster with 'Loveliest of Trees', from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (1896). Each time I read this poem, I hear the voice of the late, great Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014) reciting it from memory. #EasterDay

The ruins of St Mary's Abbey in York photographed in Spring.

Wishing everyone of all faiths or of none the joys and beauty of Easter Day and of Spring. Thank you as always for your continuing support. (St May's Abbey, York, Saxman 1597 CC BY-SA 4.0) #EasterDay

A lane in Kent in early spring, featuring early blossoming fruit trees, oast house, a farmstead, and a wide, flat landscape

Other work by the Ladybird artists.

Spring Landscape
Artist: Rowland Hilder

Two purple Early dog violets against a blurred background.

Early dog violets in Ely under a hedge. #WildflowerHour

'The Bright Field', by R. S. Thomas, first published in his Laboratories of the Spirit (1975). #WorldPoetryDay

Hello, if you like #RSThomas then you might be interested in following this Bluesky account @RSThomaspoet, also facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
- share his poems, quotes, events, info, Q+A, etc.
- and there’s a Society you can join… rsthomaspoetry.co.uk/rs-thomas-me-eldridge-society/
please re-post?

Thank you. Telepathy? I've always loved this poem.

'The Bright Field', by R. S. Thomas, first published in his Laboratories of the Spirit (1975). #WorldPoetryDay

not the best of shots; nevertheless, chiffchaff in the lane, chip-chipping