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Professor Emerita Dalhousie. Editing Winter’s Tale for @CUP_LitPerform /Coediting Anne Southwell’s amazing verse for Other Voice. Supporting Ukraine always 🇺🇦

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I know you can’t judge a book by its cover, but this one is pretty splendid, don’t you think?

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@UPS Done!

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@UPS package posted in Vancouver 9/9, guaranteed 2 day delivery to Halifax and STILL waiting 12/9. Tracking claims unable to deliver, but no notice left and I was waiting by the window. Really frustrated!

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@HRMFireNews Outbound

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@owilliamsdc Illustration is much later, but early modern physicians rely on a similar contraption

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If there are any early modernists left on this platform: please, I need to know what a “sweating cradle” - a “cradle to sweat in” is! Treatment for syphilis perhaps? Appears in an inventory of Anne Southwell’s household goods.

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@owilliamsdc Good idea, but I think I’ve tracked it down as this supportive frame (cradle) which, when attached to a heat source and tightly covered with bedclothes, allowed the thus enclosed person to sweat out excess humours (such as melancholy).

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@paul_salzman Yes, exactly- but make no assumptions, say I. In one poem she writes: “Nature, mistress of affection/Gave my love to thy protection/Where it hath received infection/ and is dying.” Never took this literally, but …

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@JuliaMWrightDal Fantastic! Thank you! Now curious about the medical purpose of the sweating?

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@rhetorician Ugh. Sorry 😢

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@rhetorician O no! I’m so sorry- and my sprained right foot throbs in sympathy!

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@rhetorician @SAAupdates “All married men desire to have good wives/ But few give good example by their lives.” She was also acutely conscious of the position of all early modern women in relation to men.

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@rhetorician @SAAupdates “Dare you but write, you are Minerva’s bird, / The owl at which these bats and crows must wonder. / They’ll criticize upon the smallest word /That wanteth number, case, that tense and gender.” Southwell was acutely conscious of her own position as a writing woman.

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@rhetorician @SAAupdates “Raise up thy faculties, my soul, ‘tis time/ To wake from idleness the child of death!” If you know Southwell, you will want to heed her call; if you don’t, a few teasers will convince you that you should!

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@rhetorician @paul_salzman Though something a bit creepy in her comparison of her own children to decadent courtiers. . .

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@woolf_atthedoor She’s in California (Santa Barbara). Them’s pricey stakes. 😳

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@woolf_atthedoor That’s lovely. Whereas my kid #2 has just moved to Edmonton! So now we have both kids in the west . . .

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@rhetorician Just grand! Happy anniversary! ❤️

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@DrPeteKirwan @MaryBaldwinU Fantastic news! Congratulations!

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@BotanicalShax No, sorry. Perhaps she should be?

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I know you can’t judge a book by its cover, but this one is pretty splendid, don’t you think?

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@rhetorician Hilarious. You did! Thank you - not only for endorsing it but (more importantly) for “getting” what it tries to do!