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Anna Reynolds

@torcheculs

dr of waste (and) paper. hunter of fragments. lecturer of things early modern. be excellent framework officer. sorry that’s my dog barking on Zoom. (she/her)

 Huddersfield/Sheffield, UK
Joined January 2013
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Hi everyone this fragment feels your pain
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The news is out! I'm thrilled to share that I rediscovered eight 17th-century paper objects made by schoolgirls when @SuttonHouseNT was one of Hackney's many female academies. These paper cuts are an extremely rare example of an art form written about by Hannah Woolley (1/2)
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Very much enjoying the angry annotations of an early 19C reader who thinks Malone is an ‘audacious despoiler’, possessed by a ‘licentious unauthorised spirit of alteration’. In short, ‘This fellow ought to be hang’d.’
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Neil Renic@NC_Renic5 Jun 2024
The academic fantasy
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evey reidy@evey_reidy4 Jun 2024
Early mod. folks — has anyone, to your knowledge, written about the masque depicted in the memorial portrait of Sir Henry Unton? Painted c.1596 - 1606 according to the National Portrait Gallery and showing a masque of Mercury and Diana. My brief search only returns two articles.
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Folks who regularly handle both early modern and modern handmade paper: does 100 gsm sound reasonable for a good-quality white paper sheet? More? Less? *In service of a very exciting but wholly nascent project I hope will get started very soon*
Anna Reynolds (@torcheculs) profile pictureAnna Reynolds@torcheculs28 May 2024
Fellow paper nerds, does anyone know a source that specifies the weight of typical early modern paper sizes? I.e, how much a sheet of foolscap, pot, or royal paper might weigh?
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I own one 17C printed book, and its paper feels very thin/light to me. In the archive tomorrow to make wild guesses about manuscript paper, I guess!
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Fellow paper nerds, does anyone know a source that specifies the weight of typical early modern paper sizes? I.e, how much a sheet of foolscap, pot, or royal paper might weigh?
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A pleasure to read Victoria Button's review of our 2021 collection *The Paper Trade in Early Modern England* in the most recent Renaissance Quarterly 📖
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The Little Apple Bookshop is 27 years old today! Wow, that means we must both have been 14 years old when we opened it. Impressive, huh? The Maths doesn't lie! 🎂🤔🧮 🪇
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shakedsetc@shakedsetc14 May 2024
One nice little touch is though the front board is ripped, it allows you to see that it was made of compressed sheets of discarded pages from other books.
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Are you interested in #rot? Join me and the fabulous @atarbuck for a fun afternoon of deliquescence and decay! Please spread the word: we want to be omnidisciplinary, & warmly welcome all pertinent (& some impertinent) contributions. forms.gle/BD4sGYaVPReTh49R9
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Good news, the Higher Education Academy has confirmed that, after many years of doing it, I can in fact teach. (I am now a Fellow of the above)
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Looking forward to talking about my new waste-filled book at Durham tomorrow 🗑️📚
Research in English At Durham (@READEnglish) profile pictureResearch in English At Durham@READEnglish26 Apr 2024
📜How do wasted things structure thought? Join Dr Anna Reynolds (@torcheculs) at our next research seminar where she will discuss the representation of waste paper in early modern literature👉 durham.ac.uk/departments/aca…
'Waste, Paper, and the Imagination: All Welcome Online' with an image of Dr Anna Reynolds, John Donne and Thomas Middleton

ALT 'Waste, Paper, and the Imagination: All Welcome Online' with an image of Dr Anna Reynolds, John Donne and Thomas Middleton

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Includes me and my bros Donne and Middleton, but mainly pictures of and thoughts about thrown away paper
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✨🎭 TODAY! 3pm BST Plots & Painted Tyrants: Performing #Hecuba in the sixteenth century. This year's annual Classics & English lecture, delivered by Carla Suthren! Join us in @oxfordclassics' lecture theatre or online at: ox.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/… @engfac @UniofOxford @CRSN_UK
Poster advertising an academic lecture; text reads: Carla Suthren 3pm 22 April 2024, 9th annual Classics & English lecture. Plots and Painted Tyrants: Performing Hecuba in the Sixteenth Century. Ioannou Centre 66 St Giles. All welcome; no booking required. The poster is on a black background, a circular image of a sixteenth century woodcut depicting a person holding up a mask to their face is on the left-hand side and is saturated yellow. The logos of the APGRD, the University of Oxford, and the English Faculty are in the bottom right corner.

ALT Poster advertising an academic lecture; text reads: Carla Suthren 3pm 22 April 2024, 9th annual Classics & English lecture. Plots and Painted Tyrants: Performing Hecuba in the Sixteenth Century. Ioannou Centre 66 St Giles. All welcome; no booking required. The poster is on a black background, a circular image of a sixteenth century woodcut depicting a person holding up a mask to their face is on the left-hand side and is saturated yellow. The logos of the APGRD, the University of Oxford, and the English Faculty are in the bottom right corner.

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What do ostriches have to do with forced labor in the seventeenth century? Hester Pulter knew, and @ClaireARichie helps us understand in her new edition of one of Pulter’s emblem poems: pulterproject.northwestern.e…
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Can anyone make me like Romeo and Juliet? Teaching it again this week, and I've never been a fan. Maybe an amazing bit of crit that will prove me wrong?
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*Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens* is now out AND you can get 30% off with this code 🎉 📄 🚮
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Popping up to self-promote: 'Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens' is now available to pre-order 📚📜🧻🎉 global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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