Can't wait to read this new book on Shelley by my Davy Notebooks Project colleague Dr Andrew Lacey.

Reading Collaborative Life Writing in the Memoirs of Princess Daschkaw (1840), by Alexis Wolf

Read about my book project on the Women's History Network blog for #InternationalWomensDay

womenshistorynetwork.org/reading-collab…

I'm chairing a very interesting panel this afternoon on 'Syrian Women Refugees' Education in an Age of Uncertainty' as part of the Women's History Network seminar series.
You can sign up at the link below:
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these are our colleagues and our universities continue to deny solidarity.

The last few days have been a blur of toddler jet lag, but I'm excited to be on my way back to Canterbury for day 2 of new lecturing post Canterbury Christ Church University.

I co-authored a blog post about women's writing, manuscript culture and the connection between literary and scientific communities in the 19th C.

Includes fun digital archive detective work using manuscripts from NY Public Library and Royal Institution.

We have a new blog post out: Alexis Wolf and Sara Cole discuss women's literary contributions to the pages of Davy's notebooks: wp.lancs.ac.uk/davynotebooks/…

Davy Notebooks in the Observer!

I'm so proud to have been a part of this project. I'm wrapping up my final days, but will be thinking about Davy's marvelous notebooks for many years to come.

Inspired by and so proud of Dr Sasha Dovzhyk for her important cover article in the The New York Times International Edition. As always, simply beautiful writing.

I'm grateful to have been awarded an ECR Fellowship by Women's History Network for the final stages of my book project. This will allow me to include beautiful archival images & colour portraits of my subjects that have never been seen by public before, + pay for v. essential childcare.

Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! My only holy day.
Here is the new London Ukrainian Review to mark it. It is our tribute to Victoria Amelina, featuring her work and new Ukrainian war literature in English. Read, share, and let these voices ring globally. Editing LUR has been an honour.

Literature isn’t lovely stuff. It’s unsettling, painful, shapes your morals, shows you the sublime and the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. And it can console and inspire those who get to a certain age and wonder if it was worth spending so much time in the office.

Having a wonderful day at the Female Friendship, Collaboration, and Creativity workshop LewisWalpoleLibrary.

Here Dale Townshend starts things off w/a brilliant discussion of representations of female counterculture in both Millennium Hall & Rowlandson's 'Blue Stocking Club' print.

I adore this (giant!) circulating copy of #MariaGraham 's Journal of a Residence in Chile, publ. 1824 by John Murray.

Available to pluck off the shelf in Yale's Sterling Library, no rare book status (!)

Love the record of readers of her travels, w/stamps from 1958, 1984, 1997.

Fantastic day in the Beinecke, seeing some 'new' letters from familiar research subjects.

Lovely start to my Lewis Walpole Library experience so far.

Arrived in Farmington w/entourage for Yale LWL fellowship. Taking lots of walks to beat jetlag. Husband & I both excited by seeing brown bears & an American Revolution-era encampment site in local woodland, our toddler equally pleased w/ Connecticut's selection of sticks & rocks.

In 6 weeks' time, I am finally going to the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale for my 2020 fellowship, delayed by pandemic and then by baby. I keep thinking about the books and the manuscripts and oh my, I just can't wait.

Graffiti outside portcullis of Bodiam Castle, left by James Bryan, 35th Regiment of the Foot soldier, in 1818. He carved two at the site, another at Battle Abbey during his brief stay in Sussex following a campaign in Malta. Made me think of Dr Maddy Pelling's graffiti research!