Claire Bowditch

Lecturer | early-modernist editing and General Editing Aphra Behn for @CambridgeUP | former AHRC postdoc | creative cat-namer

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

When the author (Aphra Behn?) is too easy on your least-favourite character, and you have to intervene:

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@jenna_townend @RachelCAdcock @LboroIAS @EditingBehn @lboroenglish @_MelEvans We’re here all week … should you want to swing by Burleigh for a drink after work and see HW

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

Me, being urgently evacuated by library staff while utterly unfamiliar with any scenario in which members of the public could be armed with semi-automatic weapons: ‘I’ve only got, like, 10 pages left; should I just wrap up here?’

No. The answer was no.

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

TBT being evacuated and locked in the basement of the Folger with zero cookies and one (1) leftover flask of tepid instant coffee during an active shooter situation on Capitol Hill. Learn the lesson, USA.

In fact, learn several, I beg you.

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@jenna_townend I know it’s not the point but the aesthetics of this slide are a crime. Strong ‘back in the office for the culture’ vibes x

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@paul_salzman Sending big hugs from Team AB x

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

Vote of confidence from ProQuest

Chadwyck-Healey would never have undermined me like this

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@IAmDylanLewis Not sure if this is of interest. Don Carlos, Prince of Spain (1676)

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@KatMartin92 @ThePleasance @LeedsStudio In one of mine (all girls’ school), our teacher set a remarkably successful “put a condom on your head” challenge so that we’d “always have the perfect response to any guy who says he’s ‘too big’ for one”.

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@BallasterRos @AphraStatue Thank you! Looking forward to hearing all about this adventure at Volume 7 Summer Camp

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@jenna_townend @lborouniversity @DerbyUni @DerbyUniVC Yay! Congratulations, you star!

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@DrPeteKirwan My cousin used WorldCare Pet (London to NYC) for her two pugs and thought they were brilliant. She recommended them to me when I was exploring taking the kitty to Brisbane, and they were great. Can DM the email address of the person who helped me if you like the look of them

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

Adding ‘Post-doctoral experience in STEM’ to my CV after using a School-level Pythagorean theorem to work out the length of a diagonal pet ladder I need to order on Etsy for my geriatric cat.

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

❤️ to the @FolgerLibrary — custodians of the ms translation — for the $$ and expertise that made this research possible, and to Editors Extraordinaire @RachelJWillie and @EmmaDepledge1

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

In 1678, Aphra Behn wrote a preface in which she claimed two things: (1) that her comedy, Sir Patient Fancy, is based on a single play by Molière; and (2) that she worked with Molière in translation. 

(1) is BS
(2) is actually true ⬇️

[Rachel Willie @RachelJWillie]

Next Teaser! In “Aphra Behn’s Adaptations: Paper & Stage Sources for The Rover (1677) & Sir Patient Fancy (1678)”, the distinguished duo @thefairjilt & Elaine Hobby trace the different modes & strategies of literary borrowings in two of Behn’s plays. Langbaine oversimplified…

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@DrPeteKirwan @EmmaDepledge1 She is very wise!

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@DrPeteKirwan Totally agree on 2. @EmmaDepledge1’s face when I arrived at the Folger with a bread-machine lovingly strapped into the back seat of the car is something I’ll remember forever. Thank you for this vindication 🙂

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

A Queenslander just mentioned ‘The dawn chorus’, and it took a second to realise that she meant ‘That time of day when I scream myself awake because it sounds like hundreds of parrots are in my bedroom and fighting over who gets to be the leader of a deeply chaotic murder-gang’.

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

Broadly available for plenary introductions that involve threatening the audience with a microphone to the cranium. Contact my agent for further details and associated fees.

[Claire Bowditch @thefairjilt]

@hansmollman https://t.co/jtsty9Zmz6

[Katie Marshall @KatieHistory]

#otd in 1605, Londoners lit bonfires to celebrate that the King had survived an attempt on his life. From this 5th Nov. onwards, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot would never be forgotten💥 My new blog includes how this day has been celebrated through the ages: https://t.co/kGyhz0NdSA