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Dr. Nataliia Voloshkova
@voloshkova.bsky.social
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Bluestockings and Travel Accounts (CUP, 2021); interests - women's life writing, the Bluestocking circle & long 18thC British travel accounts / UKW (2022-), Oxford Brookes U fellowship (2022-2024), Ukrainian Society for 18thC Studies
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So pleased to see my newly published article "Books of the Road: Experiences of Reading in Robert Lee's Travel Journal, 1824-1826" in Knygotyra (86) 2026.
Open access👉https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/knygotyra/en/article/view/48700/43165
September 22, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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isecs-sieds.bsky.social
The annual ISECS Executive Committee meeting was held on July 9, at the University of Warsaw, in Poland.

La réunion annuelle du comité exécutif de la SIEDS a eu lieu le 9 juillet à l'Université de Varsovie, en Pologne.
July 10, 2026 at 9:19 PM
voloshkova.bsky.social
Delighted that my essay "Bluestockings and Their Spaces of Privacy in Conversation and in Writing: the Case of Mary Hamilton" has appeared in this fantasic edited volume on privacy in Early Modern egodocuments
#Bluestockings #18thCStudies #eightheenthcentury⬇️⬇️⬇️
March 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
voloshkova.bsky.social
I am so excited! My article on Mary Hamilton, manuscript poetry and the Bluestocking netwook has been published in the special issue, JECS 48.4. 👇 Congratulations to all involved! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mary Hamilton, Manuscript Poetry, and the Bluestocking Network: Promoting Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, and Anne Hunter
This article considers Mary Hamilton's agency and influence in promoting poetry within and beyond Bluestocking circles during the 1780s. Drawing on evidence from Hamilton's diaries, correspondence, a....
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November 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Also OPEN ACCESS is the Introduction, co-authored by @nuriyabo.bsky.social, David Denison, and myself. Here we situate @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social in context of other 18thc digital initiatives, & highlight key findings of the contributions to the vol. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
This article offers an overview of the research project Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers (2019–2023) — the impetus for this special issue — and positions it within the field of eighteenth-century studies. After outlining the project's genesis, we describe one of its core outputs, the digital edition of Mary Hamilton's archive, providing key technical information which is referenced in the articles that follow. We then summarize the contents of the special issue, reflect on answers to the project's original research questions that the authors provide, and highlight key synergies and themes.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
ALSO OPEN ACCESS is our 1st article, 'Reconstructing Mary Hamilton's Social Networks', by David Denison & Tino Oudesluijs, who present an innovative method for reconstructing social networks from ms letters-connecting not just correspondents but mentionees too
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mary Hamilton's relationships and networking practices are central to this special issue. In this article, we present an innovative method for reconstructing social networks around Hamilton during five key periods of her life, connecting not just correspondents but also persons frequently mentioned in The Mary Hamilton Papers. We explain our methodology and present visualizations of the networks. By tabulating Hamilton's strongest relationships in each phase of her life, we can trace a selection of relationships over time. We reflect on the benefits and limitations of our approach, inviting expert judgement on its results and its potential for wider use.
November 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Next is 'The Tip of the Iceberg: Reading Practices in Mary Hamilton's Archive, 1783–1784', by @crulph.bsky.social & I. A data-driven dive into what, how, where, when & with whom Mary Hamilton read, & reflection on DH methodologies applied to ms life writing. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract This article evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of using quantitative digital analysis to reconstruct eighteenth-century reading practices using manuscript life writing. Our corpus is over a thousand pages of Mary Hamilton's letters and diary entries covering one year of her life. We report significant findings concerning the space, time, nature, and mode of Hamilton's reading, and the media, genre, authorship, and provenance of her material. Her reading diet is more dominated by female-authored manuscript prose, inflected by personal acquaintance, and reliant on a private loan economy than we anticipated — conclusions that we would not have reached using qualitative analysis alone.
November 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Next up is 'Franks & Friendship: Eighteenth-Century Postal Practices in The Mary Hamilton Papers' by Christine Wallis, who uses evidence from TMHP to explore how postage and franking aided correspondents' politeness and identity work. It is also OPEN ACCESS! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
In '‘I was so ill, and so low…’: Women, Mental Health, & Strategies of Care in The Mary Hamilton Papers', @annafranjam.bsky.social
explores how space, sociability & letter-writing were understood as strategies of self care by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Another OPEN ACCESS baby!
Abstract This article examines how space, sociability, and letter-writing are conceptualised as self-care strategies by female correspondents in the Hamilton archive. Building on a recent proliferation of interest in histories of mental health and emotions, it explores familiar correspondence written to Mary Hamilton between 1776 and 1809 by Louisa Murray (Lady Stormont), Jane Hamilton Holman, and Lady Mary Webb, which addresses low spirits, nervousness, melancholy, depression, and agitation of mind. It finds that three distinct yet interrelated strategies of care — change of scene, intimate sociability, and therapeutic epistolary practice — gave these correspondents important ways to manage and maintain mental health.
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Then, er, it's me again! In 'A ‘generous Rival’? Mary Hamilton and Frances Burney', I use archival & digital approaches to solve the mystery of why Hamilton loved Burney but Burney loathed Hamilton. The answer is one to which many novelists may relate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract This article combines close reading of manuscript correspondence with digital analysis of reading practices to trace literary and sociable interactions between the Bluestocking writers Frances Burney and Mary Hamilton between 1782 and 1796. I argue that Burney's well-established dislike of Hamilton was motivated by the (accurate) perception that Hamilton was a shallow and disingenuous reader of her novels, more interested in capitalizing on Burney's celebrity than appreciating her work. Hamilton and Burney's differing characters as readers and writers sat uneasily together, compromising their friendship's potential — a conclusion that can only be reached by combining traditional archival research with digital scholarship.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Next, it's Mascha Hansen with 'The Literary Court: Reading Queen Charlotte'. This article investigates the literary cultures revolving around Queen Charlotte, in some of which Mary Hamilton took part. It's our last gold OPEN ACCESS contribution! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract This article investigates the literary culture revolving around Queen Charlotte (1744–1818) between 1761 and 1818. The Queen's library, sold after her death in 1818, contained more than 4500 volumes, and the sales catalogue (1819) offers a fascinating glimpse into her collecting habits and reading interests. This article uses the catalogue, as well as manuscript letters recently digitized by the Unlocking the Mary Hamilton Papers project and The Georgian Papers Programme, to show how she connected with other readers both in and out of Court via a shared love of reading.
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Now Anne-Christine Gardner w/ 'Self-Corrections as Indexes of Social Relationships: Observations From Mary Hamilton's Correspondence With Frances Burney (1783–1789)'. Anne & I take complementary approaches to the same material: IMHO it's a fun conversation! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract This article explores how social relationships are developed and conveyed through correspondence, with a particular focus on self-corrections in the surviving letters from Mary Hamilton (1756–1816) to Frances Burney (1752–1840). The findings show that the more closely connected the writer feels with the recipient, the more self-corrections are deemed socially acceptable. Engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue with Coulombeau's (this issue) assessment of Hamilton and Burney's complex and evolving relationship, this essay underlines the importance of self-corrections for the study of handwritten documents as well as social relationships and networks in the past.
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Closing up this v interdisciplinary special issue is Yoko Iyeiri, with an analysis of how Hamilton's enormous archive shows linguistic change, specifically in relation to the development of the adverb. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract This article explores adverbs in The Mary Hamilton Papers, examining the factors which may influence correspondents' decisions as to whether or not to use the -ly suffix (e.g. exceedingly/exceeding). While the use of -ly forms is generally well established in the dataset, tendencies differ depending on the specific adverb. This study investigates some factors determining the choice of forms — e.g. the nature of the word that the adverb modifies — arguing that linguistic factors are more influential than extra-linguistic factors in the data examined. Mary Hamilton's own writings exhibit a slightly delayed adoption of -ly compared to the overall trend in the entire dataset, suggesting possible linguistic conservatism that warrants further research.
November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social · Nov 21
At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky
Cover of JECS special issue 48.4 (December 2025), with ToC and network diagram. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2025/48/4
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Then, we have @voloshkova.bsky.social with 'Mary Hamilton, Manuscript Poetry, and the Bluestocking Network: Promoting Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, and Anne Hunter', investigating Hamilton as promoter of poetry. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract This article considers Mary Hamilton's agency and influence in promoting poetry within and beyond Bluestocking circles during the 1780s. Drawing on evidence from Hamilton's diaries, correspondence, and manuscript books, it reconstructs Hamilton's relationships with Hannah More, Ann Yearsley, and Anne Hunter, demonstrating how these poets benefited in terms of prestige from their well-connected friend's proactive stance. Hamilton's varied activities enhanced the visibility of female poets in society, helped to establish a positive perception of their works, and made a significant contribution to the cumulative influence of the Bluestockings on late eighteenth-century literary culture.
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social
More for the OED: bas bleu, indigo (in humorous reference to Bluestocking views), dissertation 'debate', haut ton. Chaperon and dirty (as verbs), moonshine (adjective), a bundle of nerves, jargonic, lucet, parliamenteering, spa toilet, strongle, tarot.

#Linguistics #18thC #c18th
Thomas Rowlandson (1756–1827), Breaking Up of the Blue Stocking Club. Etching, hand-colored (London: Thomas Tegg, 1815. NYPL, The Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle)
August 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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I’m absolutely delighted to receive my contributor copy of ‘Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain’. Thank you to the editors, Markman Ellis and Jack Orchard, and congratulations to all contributors. I can’t wait to read all the other chapters!
A hardback book is held up against a green landscape. The first page of a chapter and its heading.
June 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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amyjanieh.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1738, John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont noted in his diary that 'The Princess of Wales was brought to bed of a boy, which the same night received private baptism, there being doubt if he would live'. This baby was the future George III, one of Britain's longest reigning monarchs.
June 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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jbhist.bsky.social
Our edited collection is published Open Access by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 6 February! We have wonderful chapters exploring inherited objects and stories! We loved putting it together @katieebarclay.bsky.social @tanyaevans.bsky.social @ashleybarnwell.bsky.social @lauracking.bsky.social
Cover of the edited collection Inheriting the Family.
February 5, 2025 at 9:54 AM
voloshkova.bsky.social
📢📢📢 My article 'Writing Travelogues in the Early 19th Century: Story Behind Mary Holderness's Travel Account of Journeying From Riga to Crimea Via Kyiv' is out!!!
You can read it here uhr.ucu.edu.ua/index.php/ch...
#openaccess #travel #travelwriting
Перегляд Писання тревелогів на початку ХІХ століття: за кулісами нотаток Мері Голдернесс про подорож з Риги до Криму через Київ
uhr.ucu.edu.ua
November 25, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
How the Georgians Celebrated Christmas - Penelope J. Corfield
#skystorians 🗃 #c18th
How the Georgians Celebrated Christmas - by Penelope J. Corfield - Yale University Press London Blog
Penelope J. Corfield takes us through some of the Georgian origins and innovations of some familiar festive traditions.
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December 15, 2023 at 6:36 PM
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john-stone.bsky.social
"The call for papers is now open for the next ISECS International Seminar for Early Career Scholars, "Diasporic Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century" (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 July 2024). The deadline for applications is 31 January 2024."
oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/pls/public/doc…
November 22, 2023 at 11:01 PM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
Ukrainian Recipes - Christmas poppy seed roll – Makivnyk
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Christmas poppy seed roll – Makivnyk
This delightful Ukrainian poppy seed roll (makivnyk) is 100 times better than any Christmas cake. Flavorful, soft, airy, and tender.  Just perfect for the occasion. The makivnyk recipe is for three r...
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November 26, 2023 at 2:55 PM
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stabihh.bsky.social
‚Manuscript Albums and their Cultural Contexts‘. Ed. by Janine Droese & Janina Karolewski. #OpenAccess
The first contribution to the comparative study of manuscript albums, focusing on their materiality & analysing the practices of all those involved in making and using them.
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
‚Manuscript Albums and their Cultural Contexts‘
November 23, 2023 at 1:16 PM
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historybeagle.bsky.social
Two big databases... 1. Dined, a db of who dined at Holland House 1788-1806. dined.qmul.ac.uk 2. 3000 dishes on a Georgian table, 1788-1813 zenodo.org/records/8070.... There is also a link to the article there that gives some teaching and research ideas! (Biased about this one for obvious reasons.)
November 10, 2023 at 8:24 AM