Patrick Leary

Victorianist, scribbler, factotum, historian.
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The indispensable Carlyle Letters Online, guided by Brent Kinser, has found a new home at Western Carolina University: https://t.co/Gh7pC0VnVZ This magnificent resource features free access to all the letters of the 50-volume Duke-Edinburgh edition completed in 2023. #Victorian

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@ENortonHistory Does it still work? 😉

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@PunchBooks It was never the same after Mark Lemon died.

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@DickensLetters A splendid presentation!

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@LtlFreeLibrary Designs like these are not tall enough or deep enough for the large-format picture books that kids love, especially younger kids. Everywhere I go I see fewer and fewer children's books in LFLs, and I suspect that this is one of the reasons why.

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Oxford University Press will be awarding up to 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. https://t.co/G1098P8YRA

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@jamesfinngarner @ANNELAMOTT Me too.

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@jamesfinngarner @ANNELAMOTT Or you could try any of the Parker novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake).

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Actor Timothy West has died, at 90. Victorianists have particular reason to be grateful for his career, from his memorable turns as Bounderby in Hard Times (1977) and Dedlock in Bleak House (2005) to his magnificent audiobooks of Trollope’s novels.

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@LearNonsense I was in a meeting today where we were all so glum that the chair asked each of us to tell of some good news we’d had. One fella smiled and said that for him it was that great new book by Sara Lodge about female detectives. Hope that makes the busted toe a little more bearable!

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For those in our orbit who may not yet know the news, our own President Priti Joshi has received this year's @NAVSA President's Award for all of her fine work! 🎉We have written up a little summary here: https://t.co/ZM9UXT25J3

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@arthistorynews That interview scene with Guinness is one of the best in the whole series—a comic masterpiece.

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@luciejones83 OK, I just want to make clear that I was following Lucie M-J on Bluesky long before all these newbies arrived ;)
It's nice to see all the new activity there. The place is more civil, without the toxic drek. And "starter packs" on various topics (incl C19) are helping.

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Hathi Trust obligingly lets users create "collections" of its digital texts. Here's one I made entitled "19th-century literary life" that mostly consists of memoirs by authors, contemporary accounts of publishing houses and periodicals, etc. https://t.co/5iFEm7hUwW #victorian

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@DrFrancisYoung @preraphsrule As a historian I worry about continued access to public domain books and periodicals, particularly by scholars who have no routine access to major research libraries. This list of 19th-century OA periodicals relies on access that is far from guaranteed https://t.co/mAo0Mo26LU

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@JofVictCulture You are so welcome! Let me add that the quoted post comes from VICTORIA, a discussion forum that welcomes everyone interested in the 19th century: https://t.co/l0EVBH7fq7

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@IDoTheThinking That guy on the left, the Mason, is Bob Bailey, who would go on to a fabled career in radio in the 1950s. Best known for the title role in “Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.”

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Terrific article about literary women's networking in 19th-c. Brompton. Esp nice to see so much attention to the role of SC and Anna Maria Hall and their important salon at The Rosery. Also the deft use of Camilla Toulmin's fascinating memoir. https://t.co/vj4Cp4tfBi

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@JBritishStudies Too bad. But hope lives that we will see that happen one day.

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@JBritishStudies But not open access?