Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 3

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Day 12: 'Fop': a man who is overly vain in his appearance and behaviour (orig. 'fool'). Amusingly, Eleanor uses it to describe "a most beautiful Macaw [who] was the loudest speaker, but like many other fops, he would have been more admired had he been silent." @derbyshiredro.bsky.social

Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 3

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Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 9

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English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate, Colley Cibber wrote, "It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change." #ColleyCibber

Let's read the Bible together in the next year. Today our passages are Ezekiel 14:12–16:42; Hebrews 7:18-28; Psalm 106:1-12; and Proverbs 27:4-6. #BibleinaYear #BibleReadings #ContemporaryEnglishVersion #Ezekiel #Hebrews #Psalms #Proverbs #ColleyCibber

DYK #ColleyCibber disowned daughter Charlotte Clarke (d.1760) for playing #LordFoppington in his play TheCarelessHusband? She lost popularity in “#breeches” roles for having #LesbianSex & later lived as a man w/a widow & kept a grocery store. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory

Today in Bookish and Literary History, December 9

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