Paul salzman

Come to the @anzamems.bsky.social conference in Melbourne (!) in December I will be speaking about zodiac ‘man’ in early modern almanacs and helping celebrate the palgrave encyclopaedia of early modern women’s writing with the esteemed editors Rosalind smith and Patricia Pender. @earymodern

Yes did benesse, art houses including the new shrine installation, Lee ufan, benesse valley, and the new naoshima gallery

It is great here on Naoshima though we can’t quite talk our way into the Chichu museum which has been booked out for months lots of other to see though

Fantastic.

Really what more could you ask for? This is the only extant copy (thanks again Bodleian). In case you are wondering the same formula will grow you a new set of teeth and also 'take out the furrowed wrinkles as smooth as a girl of sixteen'.

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

I don’t, we bought it at a small orchid nursery on the Mornington peninsula

There’s my online wroth poetry edition just pick one sonnet : wroth.latrobe.edu.au

I see your ‘of course’ and raise you my ‘perhaps’.

Hello spring.

O no !

Late winter wax flower in full bloom

Very slowly poached preferably overnight cut up quinces sugar syrup (equal sugar and water) to cover overnight in a very low oven hardly any faff but I think better than quince paste and more versatile

#earlymodern writing about the amazing Sarah jinner

Sprung

Most of the best ones of course are in Australia and New Zealand so not that hard, really. (Joke…)

Desperately Seeking Sarah: My Vain Quest for Marginalia by Paul Salzman I am at the early stages of a large project on almanacs. I’m investigating the readership and use through time of a large sample of what was the most popular printed item in the sev…

And here’s a link to my blog piece on tracking down Jinner almanacs on the early modern marginalia research network earlymodernmarginaliaresearchnetwork.com/2024/02/08/d...

Had a great time at the early modern women and marginalia seminar in Canberra now it’s back to Sarah Jinner I’m about half way through writing my little book on early modern women and almanacs

Ha ha snap,

#earlymodern about to head to Canberra tomorrow for the marginalia and the early modern woman writer seminar organised by an amazing scholar and dear friend, Ros Smith.

Japanese quince always fools you into thinking it’s spring

Municipal planting Fitzroy gardens

Our freshly painted house in the winter sunshine

I don’t think that this is what you mean but when I was working on halliwell’s scrapbooks I was always conscious that his scraps equated to gaps/holes somewhere else. Or indeed even in the same place which I think is the case at the Folger.