Louise Duckling

Calling all women writers - come along to this online chat if you're free on Thursday. The discussion is always illuminating - and friendly!

I will do my best to be there!

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

I'm looking forward to catching up with friends old and new at this WSG seminar this Saturday, at the Foundling Museum in London. Come along and say hi?

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

text of Joseph Fasano's poem "For a Student Who used AI to Write a Paper" Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.

I gave my first lecture in my first-year undergraduate course tonight

I talked at some length about AI, giving my rationale for my categorical no-AI policy, encouraging them to think about what its (non)use implies for their own educational experience, and closing with Joseph Fasano's poem

How amazing is this? Every bookshelf should have one!

Academic authors: are you thinking of joining a writing group or workshop this fall? @kyrafreestar.bsky.social and I have compiled an up-to-date list of options for you!

You'll find free coworking groups, self-paced courses, multi-week Zoom workshops, and more. Check it out!

Come and join us for our first @womenwritersnet.bsky.social chat here on Bluesky! It’ll be on 18 September at 6 pm BST. Save the date! #writing #writers #writinglife

TWO NEW BOOKS from the Illuminating Women Artists series are officially published today!!

⭐️ Maria Sibylla Merian by Catherine Powell-Warren
⭐️ Josefa de Óbidos by Carmen Ripollés
www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

Co-published in North America with @gettymuseum.bsky.social

Art and Conversation: Artemisia Gentileschi - Portland Art Museum Join us for a special Art and Conversation with Jesse Locker, Ph.D., Professor of Italian Renaissance & Baroque Art at Portland State University, and Lloyd DeWitt, Ph.D., The Richard and […]

Art and Conversation: Artemisia Gentileschi at the Portland Art Museum, Sept. 4

😍 Wow, yes - you must be very proud!

It's a stunning book!

Small brass butterfly.

The underside of the butterfly, which has little pockets to store sewing needle packets. The underside of the wings are decorated with two plates. One carries an inscription of the drapers company: "Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. - London." The other has a gilded head of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, art, trade, and war.

The butterfly can be folded up, like how a butterfly flaps its wings.

A close-up of the butterfly's wings.

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.

IG tatterbluelibrary

Book front cover showing a still life artwork by Clara Peeters, featuring a vase of flowers adjacent to a bowl of nuts and dates.

Book front cover showing artwork by Maria Sibylla Merian, featuring a botanical drawing in pale blues and greens, with butterflies.

I love being a reviews editor. It brings you into contact with the most exquisite books. I sent these beauties to a lucky reviewer today.

"Clara Peeters" by Alejandro Vergara-Sharp
"Maria Sibylla Merian" by Catherine Powell-Warren
Published by @lhartbooks.bsky.social
#womensart #review #newbooks

I think I'm a pretty good copy editor, and I'd say that an appropriate rate of response to copyediting should be 85 to 90 percent flat-out yes, 5 percent absolutely not, what are you thinking?, and the rest is Oh, interesting, let me do some improvements of my own.

Jane Austen's House Jane Austen's House is the most treasured Austen site in the world. From this picturesque cottage, deep in the Hampshire countryside, Jane revised, wrote and published her six extraordinary novels, wh...

Tomorrow is the Netflix premiere of a film by Richard Osman and ‘How do you like my trimming: Accessories, Making and Jane Austen’s Novels' by me. Shot in the Drawing Room at Jane Austen’s House, the talk examines Austen's needlework: www.youtube.com/user/janeaus... 1/

Travellers in Eighteenth Century Europe Travellers in Eighteenth-Century Europe is an edited collection with contributions by leading scholars brought together by a prolific author with expertise in eighteenth-century culture. The…

Another great offer - you can also get 30% off this new(ish) book edited by the wonderful @juliepeakman.bsky.social. I have a chapter in this collection titled 'Touring Switzerland with Helen Maria Williams'.
@penandswordbooks.bsky.social

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Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558–1837 'Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837' is an engaging and lively collection of original, thought-provoking essays. Its route from Lady Jane Grey’s nine-day reign to…

Interested in women's history? I had the pleasure of editing this book with @saralread.bsky.social, Carolyn Williams & Felicity Roberts for the 30th anniversary of @wsguk.bsky.social. It's currently 30% off with @penandswordbooks.bsky.social

See: www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Exploring-th... 1/2

A really interesting and thoughtful thread on LLMs.

Interested in creative writing? This new Substack is for #skystorians and comes to you from the novelist and academic @saralread.bsky.social - definitely worth a subscribe!

This looks great, Sara!

Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eighteenth century, this book amplifies thei…

So excited to see our book is now available for pre-order from Bloomsbury - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-and...
A must read for anyone interested in gender studies, music, art, philosophy, writing, and history! With @louiseduckling.bsky.social

Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange Focusing on the international circulation of culture and ideas by women in the early modern period through the long eighteenth century, this book amplifies thei…

Delighted @breerob-kirk.bsky.social and @louiseduckling.bsky.social volume Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange is available for pre-order! I contributed a mini piece on Mary Anne Canning’s 188 page letter-memoir shaping 18thc. motherhood identity www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-and... #skystorians

Thank you, Rachel, we're so fortunate to have been able to work with you and all the other wonderful contributors!

A necessary article. Publishing has changed out of all recognition in the 25+ years since my debut novel. A big problem is the public's perception, and far too much creative writing biz advice, believes the defunct business model where making a modest living was possible, still applies. It doesn't.

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

We had a perfectly balanced weekend of fun and rest, as demonstrated here by Benji the collie (having a lovely nap after a long play with his favourite ball).

So we're recharged and making headway on this week's projects: a business website copyedit and an academic book index. #stetpet #amediting

The Women Writers Network have arrived! You can catch up with their author interview with Anne Hamilton which took place earlier this evening. Scroll through their timeline for the Q&A. #WomenWritersNet

This course gave me a lot more tools for working with memoirists. I came away with a lot more questions to apply to manuscripts and frameworks for understanding how the genre works – highly recommend!