Carlisle Yingst
@ceyingst.bsky.social
researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
just a slice* of my reading for the c18 novel section of the Year's Work in English Studies
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
just a slice* of my reading for the c18 novel section of the Year's Work in English Studies
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
(*not pictured: several other monographs, about 250 more pages of articles and chapters I didn't print)
i feel it, Francis
![from the Wikipedia for Francis Douce:
In 1811 Douce resigned from the British Museum citing a series of reasons that have become legendary in institutional circles. The letter is preserved in the Bodleian Library.[5] His list of complaints runs as follows:
The Nature of the constitution of the M[useum] altogether objectionable.
The coldness, even danger, in the frequenting the great house in winter.
The vastness of the business remaining to be done & continually flowing in.
The total impossibility of my individual efforts, limited, restrained & controlled as they are, to do any real, or at least much, good.
An apparent, & I believe real, system of espionage throughout the place & certainly a want of due respect towards and confidence in the officers.
The total absence of all aid in my department.
The apartments I reside in are dangerously cold in winter & like an oven in summer. The whole damp, especially the lower room where my books are in great jeopardy & which I never entered, even in summer time, without being sensibly affected with some kind of pain or unpleasant sensation.
The general unwholesomeness of the air from sinks, drains, the ill-contrived & filthy water closet; & most of all the large & excessively cold bed chamber with an opening to the back kitchen & all its damp & cellar like smells.
The want of society with the members, their habits wholly different & their manners far from fascinating & sometimes repulsive.
The want of power to do any good, & the difficulty to make the motley & often trifling committees sensible that they could do any.
The general pride & affected consequence of these committees.
Their assumption of power, that I think not vested in them.
The fiddle faddle requisition of incessant reports, the greatest part of which can inform them of nothing, or, when they do, of what they are generally incapable of understanding or fairly judging of.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hja5k4b3sr74s2yw63uddcfk/bafkreigvm46kmtdzmjupfghy52rrqxuwoniby5e3vji3jztj635itxomhi@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
i feel it, Francis
case in point, i actually caught myself doing this while writing this post....
November 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
case in point, i actually caught myself doing this while writing this post....
i have truly angered the captcha gods (by just trying to access resources in a normal research kind of way)
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
i have truly angered the captcha gods (by just trying to access resources in a normal research kind of way)
gotta love having to identify random objects in a set of obviously AI-generated images in order to prove you're sufficiently human to access research resources overrun by bots, which are presumably slamming the servers hosting said resources with attempts to scrape them for AI
September 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
gotta love having to identify random objects in a set of obviously AI-generated images in order to prove you're sufficiently human to access research resources overrun by bots, which are presumably slamming the servers hosting said resources with attempts to scrape them for AI
The Advertisers' ABC perhaps? (this snippet review from the gardener's chronicle mentions that article on Gigantic Advertising). It was published by TB Browne, which tracks with the attribution of the Cadbury advert - though it was only first published in 1886
September 16, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The Advertisers' ABC perhaps? (this snippet review from the gardener's chronicle mentions that article on Gigantic Advertising). It was published by TB Browne, which tracks with the attribution of the Cadbury advert - though it was only first published in 1886
Oh, I don't own this one (yet), but it's a pretty good candidate...
August 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Oh, I don't own this one (yet), but it's a pretty good candidate...
(by "that one," I mean the copy of the book that has that same cover, complete with dyed edges)
August 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
(by "that one," I mean the copy of the book that has that same cover, complete with dyed edges)
Roxanas tend to be pretty good, too - especially the back of the Royal Giant (the one on the right)
August 28, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Roxanas tend to be pretty good, too - especially the back of the Royal Giant (the one on the right)
well, first, here's the back of that one
August 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
well, first, here's the back of that one
Even so, I would *guess* that the use of "correction" on a printed book would be a bit narrower, referring specifically to changes made by a "corrector" as defined by Nathan Bailey below (this is the 11th edition, 1745).
![image of a set of definitions from the 1745 Bailey's English Dictionary (11th edition). "To Correct" is defined as "to amend; to reprove or check..." while "corrector [to a printing-office]" (brackets in original) is defined as "a person of letters, who takes care that the Faults in every Sheet be corrected before it be wrought off at the Press"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hja5k4b3sr74s2yw63uddcfk/bafkreiceucus5zmwot3cjs7be62ekivfrnqporhvjepioflmw65ehev43e@jpeg)
August 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Even so, I would *guess* that the use of "correction" on a printed book would be a bit narrower, referring specifically to changes made by a "corrector" as defined by Nathan Bailey below (this is the 11th edition, 1745).
moving to edinburgh be like
August 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
moving to edinburgh be like
oh! here - some images from Lady Morgan's diaries (at NLI). I wasn't specifically looking at the ruling at the time (just skimming thru some old pictures now), but it does look like that's possibly printed ruling - stays quite precise thru the whole book & Morgan seems sometimes to ignore it
July 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
oh! here - some images from Lady Morgan's diaries (at NLI). I wasn't specifically looking at the ruling at the time (just skimming thru some old pictures now), but it does look like that's possibly printed ruling - stays quite precise thru the whole book & Morgan seems sometimes to ignore it
these kinds of ruled ledger pages are pretty ubiquitous from 1748 through to the mid 19th c. - though again, not quite sure that's what you're after
July 31, 2025 at 11:05 AM
these kinds of ruled ledger pages are pretty ubiquitous from 1748 through to the mid 19th c. - though again, not quite sure that's what you're after
rpril is the cruelest month
July 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
rpril is the cruelest month
finally having an flat where we can have bookshelves means finally getting the collection back out - complete with some new(ish) acquisitions!
July 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
finally having an flat where we can have bookshelves means finally getting the collection back out - complete with some new(ish) acquisitions!
occasionally i still find some time to get a sketch or two in tho
July 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
occasionally i still find some time to get a sketch or two in tho
best (very) belated birthday gift to myself in a while
June 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
best (very) belated birthday gift to myself in a while
for the queer bibliographers among you - some of D'Eon's notes on her hopes for her library:
"I should prefer ... my MSS to be bought by some Oxford library where they would be kept as a sacred and honourable trust"
"I should prefer ... my MSS to be bought by some Oxford library where they would be kept as a sacred and honourable trust"
![A quote from the Chevaliere D'Eon: 'what has afflicted me most in my life has been the forced sale of my library at the time when i was occupied in working on the memoirs of my life, wonderful in the eyes of the public and still more wonderful in my own [...]" "I must, in spite of myself, submit to the decrees of providence; but for pity's sake my dear friend, do not yet sell in London the box of Manuscripts which I entrusted to you before my departure from London..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hja5k4b3sr74s2yw63uddcfk/bafkreifj5vcco6nxfeczwbma7pgtwer24gb6aoymibkyzn2fsdszfafgoe@jpeg)
![Quote from D'Eon continues: "Accordingly some friends whom my friend Seward has procured for me, and that I have made among your celebrated Oxford doctors, to whom I have spoken of the manuscripts which are in the square box of white pine which I left with you in London, show me a great desire to see them, examine them, and make a purchase of them for their Bolleimne [presumably Bodliean] Library or other public library, I should prefer for my honour and special advantage my MSS to be bought by some Oxford library where they would be kept as a sacred and honourable trust, then to be sold and dispersed among private individuals whom I do not know at all, in London, who often have more money than understanding, who often buy MSS out of curiosity or vanity, who ridicule books and scholars, the majority as dull and as boring as the blockheads who have made them and bound them in wood." Etc.,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hja5k4b3sr74s2yw63uddcfk/bafkreidi4ugdncrtbted2lbq36qrbqizqtwqc4tkejw5qbw4rtav2pqnkq@jpeg)
June 2, 2025 at 9:44 AM
for the queer bibliographers among you - some of D'Eon's notes on her hopes for her library:
"I should prefer ... my MSS to be bought by some Oxford library where they would be kept as a sacred and honourable trust"
"I should prefer ... my MSS to be bought by some Oxford library where they would be kept as a sacred and honourable trust"
it's finally out! if you don't have access but would like it, please let me know :)
May 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
it's finally out! if you don't have access but would like it, please let me know :)
always fun when basic research behavior makes basic research infrastructure think you're a robot and try to block you
May 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
always fun when basic research behavior makes basic research infrastructure think you're a robot and try to block you
May 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
proofs!
This is a companion to my PBSA article on David Lyndsay (intended to be out first!). The former read trans possibility in Lyndsay's Dramas *as* a book - this one takes a closer look at the poetry *in* the book, which I argue articulates a proto-trans approach to historical recovery -
This is a companion to my PBSA article on David Lyndsay (intended to be out first!). The former read trans possibility in Lyndsay's Dramas *as* a book - this one takes a closer look at the poetry *in* the book, which I argue articulates a proto-trans approach to historical recovery -
April 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
proofs!
This is a companion to my PBSA article on David Lyndsay (intended to be out first!). The former read trans possibility in Lyndsay's Dramas *as* a book - this one takes a closer look at the poetry *in* the book, which I argue articulates a proto-trans approach to historical recovery -
This is a companion to my PBSA article on David Lyndsay (intended to be out first!). The former read trans possibility in Lyndsay's Dramas *as* a book - this one takes a closer look at the poetry *in* the book, which I argue articulates a proto-trans approach to historical recovery -
I'm starting up doing some volunteering at the National Mining Museum of Scotland, mostly helping out with getting their (amazing!) library into a form where the catalogue can be accessed by the public / researchers.
I'll mostly be with the books, but today I got to go on the full tour:
I'll mostly be with the books, but today I got to go on the full tour:
April 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm starting up doing some volunteering at the National Mining Museum of Scotland, mostly helping out with getting their (amazing!) library into a form where the catalogue can be accessed by the public / researchers.
I'll mostly be with the books, but today I got to go on the full tour:
I'll mostly be with the books, but today I got to go on the full tour: