Alice Wickenden
@awickenden.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF: Library history, early modern books, named collections, theories of provenance.
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network. Sometime poet, always emo.
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network. Sometime poet, always emo.
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
yesss. such a good tree. exactly the link I was going to post!
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
yesss. such a good tree. exactly the link I was going to post!
I mean, I’m impressed by that! She seems very cool and glamorous.
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I mean, I’m impressed by that! She seems very cool and glamorous.
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Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Best Fake Books—Made Real
At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are bound, scuffed, and shelved.
www.newyorker.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
yes! I need to know what she thinks that word means.
November 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
yes! I need to know what she thinks that word means.
it's so ridiculous. solidarity to you all!
November 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
it's so ridiculous. solidarity to you all!
oh god! mind you we (all boys school that accepted girls at sixth form) did Lolita. certainly... a choice on the teacher's part
November 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
oh god! mind you we (all boys school that accepted girls at sixth form) did Lolita. certainly... a choice on the teacher's part
I keep seeing posts about how "wuthering heights is not a love story" and thinking "wait a second... isn't it the most romantic and beautiful love story ever written? oh no I was simply suffering"
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I keep seeing posts about how "wuthering heights is not a love story" and thinking "wait a second... isn't it the most romantic and beautiful love story ever written? oh no I was simply suffering"
‘one remony atremony aremony’ brings me to tears every time
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
‘one remony atremony aremony’ brings me to tears every time