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Erica Robert Pallo

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Work: @HarvardLibrary.bsky.social‬. Study: @Harvard.edu‬. Curator of stories: early modern women’s writing, Restoration theatre, cinema/tv, myth/vampires. Upcoming podcast: @CineStoryteller.bsky.social. Website: EricaRobertPallo.com.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · Nov 8

I am a library assistant at Baker Library at Harvard University as well as a graduate student there in English. My studies focus on Aphra Behn & other 17th-century English women playwrights within Restoration Theatre, and using digital methods to present them. I also research vampire lore in cinema.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 1d

Fashion Police exhibit at the Houghton Library. Wonderful work Christine Jacobson and John Overholt!

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 1d

William Powell’s The Anarchist Cookbook (1971).

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John Stubb’s The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf whereunto England is like to be swallowed by another French Marriage, if the Lord forbid not the banns, by letting her Majesty see the sin and punishment thereof) (1579).

Index Liborum Prohibitarum (Index of Forbidden Books) (Rome publication, 1564).

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 1d

England’s King Charles I’s The judgment and decree of the University of Oxford past in their convocation July 21, 1683, against certain pernicious books and damnable doctrines destructive to the sacred persons of princes, their state and government, and of all humane society (1683).

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Galileo Galilei’s Dialogo Sopra i Due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, a Copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems of Ptolemy, to Copernican) (1632).

Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) (1543).

Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 1d

Banned Books Week!

Perceived “crimes” against religion, institutional leaders, and public safety have also caused books to be banned. Harvard’s Houghton Library was thorough in considering just who were the “deviants,” and who were the real dangers to society.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 1d

Upton Sinclair’s Oil! A Novel! (1927).

Marquis de Sade’s Justine, Ou, Les Malheurs de la Vertue (Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue) (1791).

John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1750).

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 1d

Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928).

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855).

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D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928).

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Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (1956).

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Madonna’s Sex (1992).

Alfred C. Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).

Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 1d

Banned Books Week!

Sex is often controversial in books: sex in science & art, homosexual expression, true-to-life depictions of passionate sex. The curators at Harvard’s Houghton Library recently found creative ways to put so many of those lovely naughties on display.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 2d

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

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A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

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Clare Lees @clarelees.bsky.social · 28d

New exhibition explores history of decorative borders: from medieval manuscripts to William Morris
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New exhibition explores history of decorative borders: from medieval manuscripts to William Morris

The new show at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery covers the late medieval age to the Arts and Crafts Movement.

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Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 18d

Look how pretty she is! I received my author copies of /Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy/ today (officially published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on Monday). Will post more about individual chapters (including my own) next week - in the meantime, do ask your library to order a copy!

book with details from an early modern map on the cover

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 18d

Fresh feta cheese twist, perfect drip coffee, and graduate research homework in a cafe that makes me feel like I’m in Los Angeles, California while actually being in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ❤️

Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 18d

The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)

Boston Athenaeum Library.

The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)

Volume 4.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)

Plays: Volume 2.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)

Plays: Volume 4.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 18d

John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790).

Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 18d

George Washington’s personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) that most certainly influenced his views on what democracy could be.

George Washington’s (rebound) personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) at the Boston Athenaeum Library.

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Portrait of George Washington at the Boston Athenaeum Library.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 18d

A 19th-century list of the books borrowed from the Boston Athenaeum Library by Louisa May Alcott.