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The WPHP Monthly MercuryA Newcastle Novelist, feat. Tricia MonsourOn the WPHP, our encounters with books and the women who worked on them are bibliographically-focused, as they must be for a project of this scale—focused attention on the contents of every work and the stories of their producers simply isn’t possible. But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to engage with the works that closely—the opposite is true, in fact!—and for Episode 4 of Season 5 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “A Newcastle Novelist”, we were delighted to interview Dr. Tricia Monsour from the University of Saskatchewan about her dissertation project, a scholarly edition of a forgotten n...2025-02-1947 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryBibliographic Intimacies, feat. Megan Peiser and Emily D. SpunaugleFor Episode 3 of the fifth season of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “Bibliographic Intimacies,” Kate and Kandice interviewed Megan Peiser and Emily Spunaugle about their work on the Marguerite Hicks Collection in the Kresge Library at Oakland University, a collection of women’s books collected by a queer, disabled woman. Their deep, immersive work on this collection highlights the physical, intellectual, and emotional intimacies that arise from bibliographic research. From the practicalities of rare book collection during the Second World War, to the joys (and occasional frustrations) of collaboration, to a heist (!!!), this episode really has it all. Join us...2024-12-111h 28The WPHP Monthly MercuryDeal with the Devil (feat. Kate Ozment)Every year, come hell or high water, The WPHP Monthly Mercury has released a gothic-inflected Halloween episode—and this year, we’re literally taking a trip to hell with Charlotte Dacre’s 1806 novel Zofloya; or, The Moor. To talk about this demonic, orientalist bloodbath, Kandice sat down with WPHP collaborator Kate Ozment, and they found themselves hurled into the abyss of trying to untangle the plot of this most bonkers of bonkers novels. Happy Halloween!2024-10-301h 05The WPHP Monthly MercuryAuthority IssuesAuthority records, authority figures, authoritative scholarship... What does it really mean to have authority? Nothing good, according to Kandice. However, in working on a new project that relies on bibliographic data from the WPHP, she has had to confront her authority issues. (Meanwhile, Kate is still reeling from the discovery that 'WorldCat' is short for 'World Catalogue' and has nothing to do with felines. On this podcast, we have spent a lot—a lot—of time talking about our sources, and especially the libraries and digitization initiatives that enable us to verify the majority of our title record...2024-10-1653 min
Darwin PodDu bist so heiß wie ein Vulkan!Besprechung der Folge "Higher Power" ("Das Ende der seaQuest"): Das Motiv ist Abschied. Wir werden uns tatsächlich von einigen liebgewonnenen Charakteren verabschieden müssen - und auch von Bob Ballard. Vor allem: Von der seaQeuest! Was das alles mit Kraftwerksbau, Hummermenü und Volleyball zu tun hat besprechen wir zur letzten Folge der ersten Staffel.Trekkiepedia zum Universal Translator:https://trekkiepedia.podigee.io/39-utDinge von Interesse zu T. J. Hooker:https://dingevoninteresse.podigee.io/282-t-j-hooker-und-das-laberdouWomen’s Print History Project:https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/Washington Physicians Health Program:https...2024-05-021h 41The WPHP Monthly MercuryAddress-ing Firms; or, The Consequences of Our Own ActionsOne of the fields we include in our records for publishing, printing, and bookselling businesses in the WPHP—our firm records—is for the addresses where they operated. Sometimes this is straightforward: one individual working at one location for the duration of their career. Other times, however, it is decidedly less so. There are booksellers running multiple shops at the same time, printers moving locations every year or two for fifteen years, publishers working with various combinations of partners and at various addresses over a number of months and years, and any number of other complex business and address rela...2024-02-2140 min
The SpokenWeb PodcastShortCuts Live! A Magical Audio Tour with Jennifer WaitsThis ShortCuts presents the first of many conversations recorded at the University of Alberta as part of the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium. Recorded on site by SpokenWeb’s Kate Moffatt and Miranda Eastwood, the conversations often took place in spaces where the sonic environment of the symposium is audibly present. As always on ShortCuts, we begin with an audio clip from the archives, but this time the interviewees are the ones bringing an archival sound to the table. What will we hear? And where will these sounds take us? Join us for this ShortCuts Live in which a conversation with Jennifer Wa...2023-11-2018 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryGhosts of Print Culture PastDo you believe in ghosts? In this spirited (ha ha) Halloween episode, Kandice and Kate encounter a ghost of their very own in circulating library owner and author Mary Tuck’s Durston Castle; or, The Ghost of Eleonora (1804). Every year, in anticipation of October, we scour the WPHP for suitably spooky titles—previous Halloween episodes have featured badly behaved monks, rogue banditti, haunted castles, lost (and found!) parents, and pages upon pages of moralizing in the mountains (we’re looking at you, Catherine Cuthbertson’s four-volume Romance in the Pyrenees). Often satirical and rarely scary, these “Gothic” novels we share every...2023-10-311h 19The WPHP Monthly MercuryNew Romanticisms Bonus Episode 5: Kirsteen McCueIn August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our conference episode involved interviews with conference plenaries, organizers, award winners, and award facilitators, becoming what we've affectionately termed a truly Frankensteinian attempt to answer the question: What do New Romanticisms sound like?One answer is that it sounds like even more than what you first heard in our "It's Alive! The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New Romanticisms" episode. Our conversations with the co...2023-10-2029 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryNew Romanticisms Bonus Episode 4: Manu Samriti ChanderIn August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our conference episode involved interviews with conference plenaries, organizers, award winners, and award facilitators, becoming what we've affectionately termed a truly Frankensteinian attempt to answer the question: What do New Romanticisms sound like?One answer is that it sounds like even more than what you first heard in our "It's Alive! The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New Romanticisms" episode. Our conversations with the co...2023-10-1426 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryNew Romanticisms Bonus Episode 3: Patricia Matthew and Andrew McInnesIn August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our conference episode involved interviews with conference plenaries, organizers, award winners, and award facilitators, becoming what we've affectionately termed a truly Frankensteinian attempt to answer the question: What do New Romanticisms sound like?One answer is that it sounds like even more than what you first heard in our "It's Alive! The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New Romanticisms" episode. Our conversations with the co...2023-10-0645 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryNew Romanticisms Bonus Episode 2: Noah HeringmanIn August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our conference episode involved interviews with conference plenaries, organizers, award winners, and award facilitators, becoming what we've affectionately termed a truly Frankensteinian attempt to answer the question: What do New Romanticisms sound like?One answer is that it sounds like even more than what you first heard in our "It's Alive! The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New Romanticisms" episode. Our conversations with the co...2023-09-2925 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryNew Romanticisms Bonus Episode 1: Jennie BatchelorIn August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our conference episode involved interviews with conference plenaries, organizers, award winners, and award facilitators, becoming what we've affectionately termed a truly Frankensteinian attempt to answer the question: What do New Romanticisms sound like?One answer is that it sounds like even more than what you first heard in our "It's Alive! The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New Romanticisms" episode. Our conversations with the co...2023-09-2222 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryIt's (A)Live!' The WPHP Monthly Mercury at New RomanticismsIn August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Organized by Dr. Andrew McInnes and his incredible team of research assistants, “New Romanticisms” was a four-day Romanticist extravaganza with five plenaries, more than one hundred panels, the stunning environs of Edge Hill University, an ingenious coffee cart, and the occasional visit from Buster, the campus cat. The call for papers “invite[d] explorations of both the concept of newness in and about the Romantic per...2023-08-161h 54The WPHP Monthly MercuryThe Canterbury Fails x The WPHP Monthly Mercury: MONKS!!!What do the medieval period and the Romantic period have in common? Well, at the very least, badly behaved monks. In Episode 4 of Season 3 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren team up with David Coley and Matt Hussey and their podcast, The Canterbury Fails, for our first-ever crossover episode. This is, in the words of our friends at The Canterbury Fails, "A late medieval music theory complaint and literally the best most bonkers depraved monk freak show mock-gothic novel paired with a gin-soaked tea (do re mi!) and repugnant Jolly Rancher retro-cocktail."2022-10-281h 07
The Canterbury FailsWPHP Monthly Mercury x Canterbury Fails: MONKS !!!A late medieval music theory complaint and literally the best most bonkers depraved monk freak show mock-gothic novel paired with a gin-soaked tea (do re mi!) and repugnant Jolly Rancher retro-cocktail. With awesome special guest stars Kandice Sharren and Kate Moffatt. 2022-10-151h 03
The SpokenWeb PodcastWelcome to Season 4!Hello and welcome to another season of The SpokenWeb Podcast! We’re back with a new line-up of exciting episodes created by researchers across the SpokenWeb network. The SpokenWeb Podcast asks, “What does literature sound like? What stories do we hear when we listen to the archive?” In this season, we have episodes that dive into the lives of archival objects—university poetry events—what it means to read an audiobook—and so much more. This season has something for everyone from lovers of literature and history to sound studies scholars, so come and join us as we continue listening to...2022-09-1903 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryWorking for the (Wo)man ft. Sara Penn, Julianna Wagar, Amanda Law, & Belle EistThis August, the WPHP has been sharing the Spotlights that make up our newest Spotlight Series, “Down the Rabbit Hole: Researching Women in the Book Trades.” Over the course of the month, posts from Research Assistants Sara Penn, Julianna Wagar, Amanda Law, and, as of this coming Friday with the last post of the Series, Belle Eist, have focused on women who worked in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century book trades. In this month’s episode, “Working for the (Wo)man”, you’ll hear from our Research Assistants themselves about their Spotlights and the women they researched: the feuding men a...2022-08-3137 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryWollstonecraft, Revisited (feat. E.J. Clery)If you’ve ever taken an undergraduate English class on the Romantic period, you have probably encountered Mary Wollstonecraft, author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman. A widely read and controversial writer of political treatises, fiction, travel writing, and other works during her lifetime, she has been variously vilified and mythologized since her death in 1797, and has long been a staple in the literary canon. But can we ever really know Wollstonecraft?In the newest episode of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren are joined by Professor E.J. Clery, General Editor of...2022-08-041h 17
The SpokenWeb PodcastThe WPHP Monthly Mercury Presents "Collected, Catalogued, Counted"The WPHP Monthly Mercury is the podcast of the Women's Print History Project, a digital bibliographical database that recovers and discovers women’s print history for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. Inspired by the titles of periodicals of the period, The WPHP Monthly Mercury investigates women’s work as authors and labourers in the book trades.SpokenWeb is a monthly podcast produced by the SpokenWeb team as part of distributing the audio collected from (and created using) Canadian Literary archival recordings found at universities across Canada. To find out more about Spokenweb visit: spokenweb.ca . If you love us...2022-08-011h 23The WPHP Monthly MercuryBy the Author of...Our inaugural episodes of each season have thus far begun with beloved canonical authors: Jane Austen in Season One, Frances Burney in Season Two. This season, we’ve turned to an anonymous author—one whose identity is still a mystery. In 1808, The Woman of Colour was published, with its byline simply reading “By the author of "Light and Shade," "The Aunt and the Niece," "Ebersfield Abby", &c.” Those titles link to more titles, which link to more titles, which link to—! In this first episode of Season 3, Kandice dives into this tangled attribution chain, asking, which titles are attached to which...2022-06-291h 07The WPHP Monthly MercurySeason 2 in ReviewAs we prepare to launch Season 3 of the The WPHP Monthly Mercury later this week, project director Michelle Levy takes a look back at Season 2. Putting it into conversation with Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein's Data Feminism (2020) and Katherine Bode's A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (2018), Michelle thinks about the work our podcast has engaged in over the last year. 2022-06-2736 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryThe Queen of the Disciplines (feat. Lisa Shapiro)Throughout the month of March, the WPHP has been posting Spotlights about women philosophers in print in the WPHP as part of our Women & Philosophy Spotlight Series to celebrate Women’s History Month. Contributors to the series include research assistants Angela Wachowich, Belle Eist, Isabelle Burrows, Tammy T., and project director Michelle Levy, who wrote about the anonymous ‘Sophia, a Person of Quality,’ Margaret Cavendish, Harriet Martineau, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and Ann Williams.Finding women philosophers in the WPHP is not necessarily a straightforward task: we don’t include philosophy as a genre, as research assistant Angela Wachowich...2022-03-3059 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryTransatlantic Trajectories (feat. Melissa J. Homestead)In July 2020, project lead Michelle Levy and lead editor Kandice Sharren attended a virtual workshop hosted by Amy Tims at the American Antiquarian Society titled “Searching the AAS Catalog: Keyword & Browse.” This workshop introduced them to the many specific and useful headings of the American Antiquarian Society catalog, including some that we were particularly excited for given that we see them in resources so rarely: “women as authors” and “women as publishers and printers.” In November 2021, the WPHP used these headings to import more than 6000 title records from the American Antiquarian Society. Our thrilling plunge into titles printed in the United S...2022-02-161h 06The WPHP Monthly MercuryMary Hays, Mapped (feat. Timothy Whelan)In 1803, Mary Hays published the six-volume work Female Biography, a substantial work of scholarship that relied on more than one hundred sources to write biographies about more than 300 hundred women. But how did Hays, a Dissenting writer of moderate means, access all of those books? To find out, we invited Dr. Timothy Whelan to talk all things Mary Hays, but especially her literary environs, which included relationships with Dissenting booksellers, connections with the Godwin circle, a number of the biggest and most successful circulating libraries of the time, including the Minerva Press and Hookham’s, and residences ac...2022-01-191h 25The WPHP Monthly MercuryThe Business of GossipIn Episode 7 of Season 2 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “The Business of Gossip,” hosts Kate and Kandice follow the highly successful Henry Colburn, leading publisher of fiction in the early nineteenth century, across his three main business addresses in London—and in so doing, explore how the publisher prompted, encouraged, and engaged with gossip. The subject of much gossip himself, Colburn’s origins are unknown (although rumoured to be noble), his less-savoury business practices are disparaged by his partners (with good reason), and his reputation, even into scholarship until very recently, is extremely poor. Drawing on research from John...2021-12-1531 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryThe Ecology of Databases (feat. Lawrence Evalyn)Why hasn’t the third edition of Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife been digitized? Why doesn’t GoogleBooks group the different volumes of multi-volume works together in a single catalogue record? And, what do authors and pandas have in common? We bemoan the limitations of our various sources on a monthly basis, but this month we’re digging into why they exist in the first place—especially why digitization can be so uneven.In Episode 6 of Season 2 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, “The Ecology of Databases,” co-hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren are joined by Lawr...2021-11-171h 23
Workplace HarassmentAlex finally snaps - Workplace Harassment Podcast #7We talk about a whole bunch of stuff including the existence of god, the current political climate, and the unending dread of human existentialism. Alex had a rough time. He's just done with these guys. Sick of their bullish. Quite peeved even. Perhaps his temper was tested. Not 100% on that though. The names are purposefully mixed up on this as to make you, the listener and/or viewer a bit ticked off. Maybe even rustle your feathers. I don't know I'm just an unpaid intern I have to manage the instagram, this, and patreon. Oh well sucks to suck...2021-11-142h 30Workplace HarassmentGarrett has a Vendetta - WPHP BONUS PRESHOW #2Garrett has it out for me. He thinks I'm powerless. Little does he know, I am a deity. He will know. He shall see. He does men. Does enjoy men's company that is. Nuff said. *vine boom* DISCORD LINK: https://discord.gg/CYcUVe6XrZINSTAGRAM LINK: https://www.instagram.com/workplaceharassmentpod/SPOTIFY LINK: https://open.spotify.com/show/6wVQPfcQSOsN8bIesNiWII?si=ca86ae7f50f64bf6PATREON LINK: patreon.com/workplaceharassment--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wphp/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wphp/support2021-11-141h 46Workplace HarassmentSuuuusan and George killed people at Astroworld - Workplace Harassment Podcast #6We get 3 new guests lobbed into one video because Cole ruined everything yet again. Knife play k!nk. Tyler still loves Elliot don't worry. DISCORD LINK JOIN AND BULLY PEOPLE: https://discord.gg/CYcUVe6XrZBanana Bread. Spy Party.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wphp/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wphp/support2021-11-131h 03Workplace HarassmentGarrett's buff. - Garrett and Alex WPHP BONUS EPISODE #1SMOKE ALARM BEEP BEEP BEEP ITS GETTING HOT IN HERE. We have discord: https://discord.gg/CYcUVe6XrZWe talk about pretty much nothing. But it's just Alex and Garrett so that's cool.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wphp/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wphp/support2021-11-071h 03Workplace HarassmentWe got NINJA on the podcast - Workplace Harassment #5HALLOWEEB EPISODE We have discord: https://discord.gg/CYcUVe6XrZMISTER HANDS. Nuff said. OLD GUY? Not nuff said. Garrett has dementia. Garrett has dementia. Garrett has dementia. And Alzheimer's. He also likes men. @b&*ch in the discord or you do too. Susan is not the biggest fan of homosexual relationships. Garrett's high score in subway surfers: 6,222,859 Nuff said. Garrett is bored and didn't feel like it. You know what he did feel like? Men. Yiff said. @wilbursoot @raycon @raidshadowlegends @haloreach #ad #halloween #men--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wphp/messageSupport this podcast: https://an...2021-10-311h 30Workplace HarassmentWe Replaced Garrett - Workplace Harassment #4 ft. CarlWe discuss scams, furries, QE2 getting sick, the Netflix HQ Dave Chapelle walkout, how Alec Baldwin straight up killed a guy, and other stuff like that. DISCORD LINK JOIN OR ELSE: https://discord.gg/CYcUVe6XrZ The boys attempt to put together a podcast with a missing host. RIP in peace Garrett. #RIPBOZO You won't be missed #PACKWATCH. We should have stopped at 2. We love gay people.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wphp/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wphp/support2021-10-251h 17
The WPHP Monthly MercuryThe Witching HourIn last October's episode, “Of Monks and Mountains!!!” Kate and Kandice each read a gothic novel found in the WPHP, and it was so much fun that we simply had to do it again. For Season 2, Episode 5, “The Witching Hour”, we read books about witches — almost every book that mentions witches in the title in the WPHP, in fact! (There are only five.)But within that small sample, we found a full spectrum of representations of witches and witchcraft, from the fantastical (and silly) woodland witches in Alethea Lewis’s The Nuns of the Desert (1805), to Joanna Baillie’s sp...2021-10-201h 06Workplace HarassmentThis is not canon - Workplace Harassment #3DISCORD LINK: https://discord.gg/xMcyJcDP9x This is our worst one but there's hidden gems *vine boom*. In every piece of doggy doo there is a corn kernel, and this is our doggy doo. That board game sucks. Hasbro fell off. I like Monopoly, Settlers of Catan is alright. I like clue and trivial pursuit. "My Dearest Margaret, I unfortunately will not be able to travel back for this winter, for I am on a hunting trip with the boys." Garrett does men. DOES ENJOY MEN'S COMPANY. Ay yo can I have ice cream? Only a spoonful. *pulls...2021-10-171h 54Workplace HarassmentThere's a difference between being gay and acting gay. - Workplace Harassment #2Your 4 favorite definitely straight men discuss how to defuse hostage situations, how acting gay is normal and doesn't make you gay, and how Alex killed Cole's dad.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wphp/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wphp/support2021-10-102h 29Workplace HarassmentWhat Would You Do If Nothing Was Illegal? - Workplace Harassment #1Welcome to Workplace Harassment, where 3 or 4 or more guys talk about garbage for 2 hours and try to scam together a full episode.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wphp/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wphp/support2021-10-022h 04The WPHP Monthly MercuryCheap Thrills (Pay Lemoine's Bills) (feat. Sara Penn and Roy Bearden-White)In 1794, Ann Lemoine’s husband, Henry, who was an author and publisher, went to debtor’s prison—this led to their separation, and the following year, Ann Lemoine began her own publishing business in White Rose Court in London. Between 1795 and the early 1820s, it is estimated that Ann Lemoine published, printed, and sold more than 400 titles, and explored new and inventive ways of packaging and reselling the cheap print she was known for publishing: chapbooks. In this episode, hosts Kate and Kandice are joined by WPHP Research Assistant Sara Penn, who undertook entering the many titles Lemoin...2021-09-1550 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryA Brief Journey through Women's Travel Writing in the Summer of 2021 (feat. the WPHP team)Throughout the month of August, we’ve been sharing Spotlights on the WPHP site as part of the “Around the World with Six Women” Spotlight Series on travel writing. In this month’s episode, hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren are joined by the authors of the Spotlight Series, who share what they have learned during their vicarious journeys through France, Italy, Germany, India, Chile, Rome, China, the Red Sea, and the Scottish Highlands. Along the route we touch on the stakes of travel writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in terms of British imperialism and colonial forces...2021-08-1846 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryCollected, Catalogued, Counted (feat. Kirstyn Leuner)In 2016, Dr. Kirstyn Leuner shared data from her project, The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing, with the WPHP — in particular, the Virtual International Authority Files she and her team had attached to their person records. This month, she joins us to chat all things Stainforth, databases, and cataloguing, including the kinds of data her team has been working with and collecting, the project decisions that have had to be made along the way, the hidden and not-so-hidden gems the Stainforth catalogue contains, and the many commonalities our projects share in their efforts to recover women writers of the eigh...2021-07-211h 18The WPHP Monthly MercuryOh! Those Fashionable Burney Novels!Welcome back! In the first episode of Season 2 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren delve into the publication history of Frances Burney’s first two (and most popular) novels, Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782). Although both were regularly reprinted well into the nineteenth century, we recently realised that the WPHP was missing the post-1800 editions of these works (although it did already hold all of the editions of her two far less popular novels, Camilla (1796) and The Wanderer (1814) — thank goodness!). In this episode, we explore why these titles were missing and our subsequent task: creating an as-co...2021-06-161h 02The WPHP Monthly MercurySeason 1 in ReviewAs we get ready to launch the second season later this week, WPHP Primary Investigator Michelle Levy reviews some of the highlights from our first season.2021-06-1425 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryA Brief and Scandalous History of Delarivier Manley (feat. Kate Ozment)In the final episode of Season One of The WPHP Monthly Mercury, hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren celebrate Women’s History Month by interviewing Dr. Kate Ozment about the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century writer, Delarivier Manley. Famous for her scandalous semi-autobiographical ‘secret histories,’ which satirized important Whigs in Queen Anne’s courts, Manley inspires us to consider the relationship between eighteenth-century women and history, and how they—and we!—capture, create, and record it (and sometimes make things up along the way). 2021-03-171h 00The WPHP Monthly MercuryBluestockings in Print (feat. Betty Schellenberg)In Episode 9, “Bluestockings in Print,” hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren are joined by Dr. Betty Schellenberg, Bluestocking expert, to talk about the learned ladies of the informal eighteenth-century society and their complex relationships with print — along with some musings about puddings, friendships, and dirty laundry. Put on your blue stockings and join us for our penultimate episode of Season 1 of The WPHP Monthly Mercury!If you're interested in learning more about this topic, we have compiled a list of resources and suggestions for further reading, available here: https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/blog/post/62 2021-02-171h 02The WPHP Monthly Mercury50 Words for Walking (feat. Kerri Andrews)Ramble. Ambulate. Wander. What are the words you use for walking? In our eighth episode, we’re looking to the words that women used to describe walking in print and manuscript during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, when a surge in pedestrian activity for leisure and pleasure occurred. An interview with guest Dr. Kerri Andrews, author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking, has us grappling with women’s involvement in that pedestrianism surge, and explore how the language they used (in manuscript and in print) illustrates the age-old tradition of women’s walking that is so often left out of...2021-01-2050 minThe WPHP Monthly Mercury1816 and 2020: The Years Without SummersAs 2020 draws to a tumultuous close, join hosts Kate Moffatt and Kandice Sharren as they look back—all the way to 1816. Often remembered as the cold and fog-laden year in which an 18-year-old Mary Shelley came up with the idea for Frankenstein, 1816 was a year of catastrophe more generally, known colloquially as “The Year Without a Summer” or “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death.” This double episode, peer reviewed by Romanticism on the Net, explores how the bibliographical metadata contained in the WPHP can help us uncover a wider range of voices and genres, including political writing, travel memoirs, and poetry...2020-12-161h 09The WPHP Monthly MercuryMind the (Data) GapsHave you ever wondered, “Where does all the WPHP data come from?” Well, look no further than this month’s episode of The WPHP Monthly Mercury! From missing Frances Burney and Ann Radcliffe editions to ESTC imprint-specific searches, our sixth episode identifies data gaps and explores our superstar resources, the wide variety of print and digital sources we use, and the data limitations we wrangle on a daily basis while working on the WPHP.2020-11-1829 minThe WPHP Monthly MercuryOf Monks and Mountains!!!What do two of our favourite Gothic titles from the WPHP have in common? Banditti, the name ‘Clementina,’ and abducted women, for a start! Join hosts Kate and Kandice for this Halloween-themed episode of The WPHP Monthly Mercury as they discuss how you can identify works that align with the ‘gothic’ mode in the WPHP, chat about little-known women authors, and share their experiences reading two gothic novels: Elisabeth Guenard’s The Three Monks!!! and Catherine Cuthbertson’s Romance of the Pyrenees (both published in 1803 and both delightfully strange). If you're interested in learning more about this topic, we hav...2020-10-2156 min