Jennie BatchelorMar 4, 20203 minJane Austen Embroidery (or the Stitch Off is back on)It’s World Book Day, which means I am frantically trying to wrestle my youngest child into a costume that he is not entirely sure he...
Jennie BatchelorJun 30, 20186 minIdentifying Mrs. T-SS: Ann Thicknesse and the Lady’s MagazineAs many of you know, the Lady’s Magazine project began as an effort to provide an annotated index of all of the text content of the...
Jennie BatchelorJun 19, 20185 minFashioning the Reader: Dress and Early Women’s Magazines (Part 1)Many of the Lady’s Magazine project’s followers do so because they are interested in fashion. That’s hardly surprising, really. The...
Jennie BatchelorNov 7, 20164 minWhat the Lady’s Magazine Project Did NextIt’s been quite a while since our last blog post. Team Lady’s Magazine spent most of the summer working really hard trying to complete...
Jennie BatchelorJul 28, 20165 minReader, he burned them: Charlotte Bronte, Shipwreck and the Lady’s MagazineSadly, good news stories are rare these days. So when they come along, I tend to cling to them like precious cargo that can keep me...
Jennie BatchelorJul 20, 20166 minPedagogy and cosmopolitanism: Reader translations in the Lady’s MagazineDickens and Thackeray famously set their differences aside on this staircase (© Athenaeum Club) In standard accounts of...
Jennie BatchelorJul 14, 20163 min1815: Modish Dresses, Modest Women and Bonaparte’s BrotherThe frantic barking of the dog at the sound of the doorbell today didn’t result in the usual volley of curses but saw me leaping out of...
Jennie BatchelorJun 22, 201612 minBecoming Jane: The Case of a Lady’s Magazine EmigrantWorking on The Lady’s Magazine project this May and June has led me down all manner of bizarre eighteenth-century rabbit holes, and no...
Jennie BatchelorJun 16, 20162 minThe Lady’s Magazine social media round-upWe’ve been very busy in the last few weeks. And as the Lady’s Magazine project races towards completion in September 2016, I have been...
Jennie BatchelorJun 6, 20166 minOur ‘ingenious correspondent’: Finding Joanna SquireAs we enter the last few months (gulp!) of our project, new discoveries are throwing themselves at us at a pretty alarming rate. A number...
Jennie BatchelorMay 30, 20167 minDentifrice and lotteries: advertising in the Lady’s Magazine (part 2)Cardiff Castle; LM VII (1776): 428. Image © Adam Matthew Digital / Birmingham Central Library. Not to be reproduced without permission....
Jennie BatchelorMay 22, 20162 minThe Lady’s Magazine Team Goes to Cardiff: CRECSKoenraad, Jennie and I asked the audience to look at the volumes in groups of six to ten – each table was able to have two copies of the...
Jennie BatchelorMay 10, 201611 minThe free press: payment, professionalism and the Lady’s MagazineBack in February of this year, Steve Hewlett’s interview of Stephen Hull, Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post UK, for the BBC’s Media...
Jennie BatchelorMay 4, 20167 minWhen it doesn’t work out: a failed attempt at identifying a contributor to the Lady’s MagazineIn the past few weeks, the social media pages of academics have been buzzing with commentary on the ‘CV of Failures’ that was published...
Jennie BatchelorApr 27, 20162 minThe Mighty Pie Chart and Generic EvolutionsYet once the difficult decisions are made, how can we disseminate a database with tens of thousands of items, belonging to dozens of...
Jennie BatchelorApr 17, 20167 minFinding the Mysterious Miss Cuthbertson in the Lady’s MagazineIn the 1830s, in India, an anonymously published book entitled Santa Sebastiano was sold at auction. It had two eager bidders who did not...
Jennie BatchelorApr 11, 20166 minRabies and the Lady’s MagazineIt is a truth universally acknowledged – by epidemiologists, at least – that the ‘first case’ is never the first case. For example, the...
Jennie BatchelorApr 6, 20166 minThe Lady’s Magazine Project at the Authorship & Appropriation conference (Dundee – 8/9 AprBeautiful Dundee, by B4bees on Flickr (click pic for link) We are approaching that time of the year again. Every year from spring to late...
Jennie BatchelorMar 31, 20163 minAcrostic Poems, Love and Life in the Lady’s MagazineOne of the fascinating, yet easily overlooked, genres of the Lady’s Magazine is that of the acrostic (or, as they are often termed,...
Jennie BatchelorMar 25, 20164 minStitch Off participant Lucie Whitmore on embroidering for research© Lucie Whitmore Sometimes there are benefits to spending far too much time on Twitter, and I was so excited when earlier this year I saw...
