Martine Van ElkToday on our blog: Jade Scott takes a fascinating dive into the household accounts of Anna Keith, an early modern Scottish woman, to find out what books she owned #HerBook #EarlyModern https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/annas-keiths-books-reconstructing-book-ownership/
Today on our blog on early female book ownership: a post by @tarallyons.bsky.social on a lovely bible with names of early modern women, a gift inscription, and a recipe #EarlyModern #HerBook https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2024/11/15/the-holy-bible-london-1630/
Today on the blog: Miles Deverson discusses exciting finds of female book ownership at the Wellcome Collection and plans for making these books easy to find--featuring lots of examples of early modern female book ownership with pictures https://buff.ly/3YMFRlx #HerBook
We have featured several books from the impressive library of early modern book collector Katherine Blount. Today, Joe Black discusses a book owned by her daughter, our first book on card games! https://buff.ly/3NuL7UC #HerBook
Richard Seymour, The Court-Gamester: or, Full and Easy Instructions for Playing the Games Now in Vogue (1722)
This post offers a further installment in the ongoing story of the library of Katherine (Butler) Blount (1676-1753).[1] The date and circumstances under which Blount’s potentially substantial libra…
Today on the blog: a special longer post by Jan Pauwels on Dutch book collector Anne Countess d'Yve, whose impressive collection included the Gelre Armorial and a Gutenberg Bible https://buff.ly/4gDfdmk #HerBook
A wonderful new post for your Friday reading: Joe Black discusses a touching gift of a brother to his sister of a book by Elizabeth Grymeston, complete with his own marginal translations of the Latin https://buff.ly/4e95rGi #HerBook
Elizabeth Grymeston, Miscellanea. Prayers. Meditations. Memoratives (c.1608)
Elizabeth Grymeston’s Miscellanea, published posthumously in 1604 and then in three further editions in augmented form by 1618, continues to receive surprisingly limited scholarly attention. The bo…
Today a wonderful post by Beth DeBold on two devotional books with early modern female signatures as Beth considers dirt, tears, and detritus as evidence of book use https://buff.ly/3Rx5mDF #HerBook
The Whole Duty of Man Laid down in a Plain and Familiar Way (1712) with Private Devotions for Several Occasions, Ordinary and Extraordinary [1712].
By Beth DeBold These two devotional texts, bound together in dark brown goatskin with faded gilt ornaments and fore-edges, represent a fairly commonplace survivor of the early eighteenth century. T…
Today on the blog: Joe Black discusses our third example of a book by Francis Bacon with evidence of early modern female ownership, and his post includes some unexpected "readers" at the end https://buff.ly/3VccQNc #HerBook
Francis Bacon, The Naturall and Experimentall History of Winds (1653)
Today’s post adds to the small but growing number of books on this site categorized as science and natural history: for additional examples, including two other works by Francis Bacon with female o…
Today on the blog: a rare case of an early modern American female book owner, whose copy of Bradstreet's poems was probably a gift from her father https://buff.ly/4arUqh3 #HerBook
Today on the blog: a wonderful new post by Beth DeBold on a copy of Katherine Philips's Poems, a favorite among early modern women readers, given to Maria Waller by Frederick Cavendish https://buff.ly/3Ux7L1Q #HerBook
Katherine Philips, Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips (1667)
By Beth DeBold It is perhaps unsurprising that copies of the works of Katherine Philips continue to emerge inscribed with the ownership inscriptions of women. As Martine van Elk has noted, Philips …